Born in Seoul, Korea. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
EDUCATION
1984 M.A. in Printmaking, New York University, New York, NY
1978 M.F.A. in Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
1976 B.A. in Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 sooim lee: stories within traces, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ
2017 Soo Im Lee: Across time and place, Art Projects International, New York, NY
2010 Soo Im Lee: Shadow, Tompkins Square Library Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Soo Im Lee: Mingle, Tompkins Square Library Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Soo Im Lee: Bella’s Blanket, Tompkins Square Library Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Soo Im Lee: Cloud Drifting, Gallery Oms, Fort Lee, NJ
2003 Soo Im Lee, Parker Gallery, Fort Lee, NJ
1994 Etching, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Etching by Soo Im Lee, Gallery May, Seoul, Korea
Etching by Soo Im Lee, Goh’s Gallery, Che-ju, Korea
1984 Soo Im Lee, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Circulating Mail Art Project, episode_gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2025 The Faraway Nearby, Westbeth gallery, New York, NY
2024 And They Make Us Poor, For Our Only Wealth Is Seeing, episode_gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Visionary Catalysts: Wolhee Choe and the Empowerment of Korean Identity, AHL Foundation
Gally, New York, NY
Calling Back, Calling Forward, From This Blanket, Print Center, New York, NY
2023 30 years: Art Projects International, New York, NY
2022 Color as Space, Art Projects International, New York, NY
2021 Paper and process 3, Art Projects International, New York, NY
2019 New works, Art Projects International, New York, NY
2018 Summer selections, Art Projects International, New York, NY
2016 Marking 2: Drawings by Contemporary Artists from Asia, Art Projects International, New York, NY
Open (C)ALL: Up for Debate, Gallery at BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Summer Selections, Art Projects International, New York, NY
Dispatches from Eternity, Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon, NY
2014 Summer Selections, Art Projects International, New York, NY
2013 20 Years: Art Projects International, Art Projects International, New York
2012 Intersecting Lines, Art Projects International, New York, NY
NURTUREart Benefit, Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY
You, Me and Us, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Green Acres & Simple Pleasures, Piermont Straus Gallery, Piermont, NY
Art MRKT Hamptons, Long Island, NY
Fountain Art Fair at the Armory, New York, NY
Re-Imagine: Ourselves, Yara Arts Group, the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY
2011 Personal. Spaces. An Exhibition in Conjunction with Curate NYC, Crossing Art, New York, NY
Fountain Art Fair Art Basel, Miami, FL
Generations VIII, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
911 Arts: A Decade Later, Commons Gallery, New York University, NY
In Layers, Yes Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Wish you were her 10, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 FRAMING AIDS 2010 Art Exhibition, Queens Museum of Art: Partnership Gallery, Queens, NY
Keep The Home Fires Burning, Fowler Arts Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Golden Blueprints, WG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Masquerade, IMAA, Brooklyn, NY
BLITZ, Greenpoint Open Studio, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
North Brooklyn, inaugural exhibition, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
Irrelevant, Arario Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Face & Facts, Korean Culture Service NY, New York, NY
Greenpoint Open Studios, Marie Taillefer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Greenpoint Open Studios, Yes Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Greenpoint Open Studios, Brooklyn Artillery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Visual Sound, Closter Art Studio Gallery, Closter, NJ
14 Hands, Closter Art Studio Gallery, Closter, NJ
Eighteen Contemporary Artists, Palisades Park Multimedia Center, Palisades Park, NJ
2007 Art in Hands, Gallery Oms, Fort Lee, NJ
Art. Poetry, Palisades Park Multimedia Center, Palisades Park, NJ
2006 Korea Transfer, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, New York, NY
2005 Space World 2005 special show, Space World Gallery, Long Island City, NY
FALLAYAVADA: Back Yiso Project and Tribute, University of California, Irvine, CA
2003 At the Crossroads, Korean Culture Service NY, New York, NY
Generation 1.0, Korean Culture Service Washington D.C., Washington, DC
2002 Drawings for Peace Show, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2-D, Parker Gallery, Fort Lee, NJ
Reaction, Exit Art, New York, NY
2001 A Collaborative Fusion, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Korean Contemporary Artist in New York, the Korean Association of New York, NY
Out of Hibernation, im n il Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 The Impact of Millennium, Space World Gallery, Long Island City, NY
1998 Love and Daily Life: Textiles & Paintings by Two Korean Women, Korean Culture Service, NY
1997 Small Work, Kendall Art & Design Gallery, New York, NY
Women’s Forum, Palisadium, Cliffside Park, NJ
1995 Special Show for End of the 1995, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kakejiku/ Scrolling in New York, Galleryonetwentyeight, New York, NY
1994 Etching, The New Generation Exhibit, Yae Mac Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Cross Section, Centro Cultural Puerta de Toledo, Madrid, Spain
1993 Free in Between, Clayton Eye Center, Morrow, Georgia
1992 The Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test-Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1.5 Show, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
Art Asia, The Emerging Collector Gallery, New York, NY