Sammy Lee

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Paul Manaster
Sammy Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and a proprietor of Studio SML |k (small k) in Denver, Colorado. Her work focuses on spatial, narrative, and sequential qualities in personal and smaller communal history, as Lee incorporates her diverse explorations in art and architecture. Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and moved to Southern California at the age of sixteen. Lee studied fine art and media art at UCLA and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and also learned bookbinding under a master bookbinder Daniel Kelm. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections at the Getty Research Institute, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Spanish National Library in Madrid, Spain. Lee is recently a resident artist at Redline, currently serves on the Board of Directors for Asian Art Association at Denver Art Museum, and operates a new contemporary Asian art project and residency space called Collective SML | k in Santa Fe Art District, Denver. Artist's website: www.studiosmlk.com