Steven Young Lee — Artist Biographical Backgrounds
Curated by UMMA Curators
Group Details:
Steven Young Lee is an artist who uses his passion for historical ceramics and cultural exchange to challenge expectations of perfection and beauty in art objects.
BIOGRAPHY:
Earned MFA in ceramics from Alfred University in 2004
Currently lives and works in Helena, Montana, where he is the resident artist director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
Uses a variety of cultural influences — Chinese, Korean, French, Dutch, English and Minoan – to explore concepts of ownership, heritage, and belonging in art and aesthetics
Often mutilates ceramics to question the value of
“Growing up in the United States the son of immigrant Korean parents, I am often situated between cultures looking into one another.”
