Young Joo Lee is a multidisciplinary artist from South Korea, currently living in Cambridge and Los Angeles, USA. In her recent moving image works, Lee's personal narratives as an immigrant, South Korean, and a woman interweave with the current and historical narratives to investigate the issues of alienation, discrimination, and mental illness in late capitalist society.
Lee’s works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art- Seoul, the Drawing Center, Curitiba Biennial, GLAS animation festival, among others. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and a Harvard Film Study Center fellow. Lee earned an MFA in Sculpture at Yale University (Fulbright scholarship), an MFA in Film at Staedelschule-Frankfurt (DAAD scholarship), a BFA in Painting at Hong-ik University.