Minkyu Lee is a multimedia artist whose practice centers on vessel and furniture making, working primarily in ceramics and wood. His work looks at how physical objects can act as interfaces for human experience, where form, structure, and material response meet gesture, motion, and feeling.
Across his practice, Lee studies foundational methods and traditions—especially those tied to making and sound—then reinterprets them through a language of the body. In works that range from functional designs to non-functional objects, he emphasizes craftsmanship and fine detail, often shaping hardwood forms and translating them into softer, more fluid presences, or extending the logic of furniture into sculptural instruments.
He received his BFA (2002) and MFA (2006) from Seoul National University and an additional MFA (2008) from the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology. Lee has shown internationally and has served in academic leadership roles, including as professor and chair of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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