Artist Kang Seung Lee joins art historian and curator Amy Kahng for a conversation.
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In this Talk
Kang Seung Lee
Kang Seung Lee lives and works in Los Angeles. His practice engages with the legacy of transnational queer histories and their intersection with art history. Through his drawings, embroideries, assemblages, videos, and performances, Lee embodies what he describes as "tangible and direct means of caring for the past." Confronting historical marginalization, Lee weaves together narratives of affinity and shared experience that resist historical amnesia. Collected materials also serve as markers of history, with organic objects like dried flowers, fossils, and pearls invoking metaphors of desire and trauma. Carrying the resilience of queer genealogy across time and space, Lee's work proposes expansive ways to record, recover, and preserve intergenerational memories for the future.
Amy Kahng
Art historian and independent curator Amy Kahng is a PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University and a 2024-25 Tyson Scholar at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In fall 2025, she will be a Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American and Asian Diasporas Art History at Brandeis University. Her dissertation project examines twentieth century Asian American artists and their relationship to land, colonial vision, and conditional racialization. Other research interests include global contemporary art, modern and contemporary art in Korea, and transnational queer and feminist art practices.
