Curriculum Vitae
Education
New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, MFA, 1995
California State University, Long Beach, CA, BFA, 1991
Solo Exhibitions
Myosotis, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea 2016
Layers of Mountain, 层层山 Thomas Hunter Project Space, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY 2013
Threshold/Blue Mountain, Bonovitz Space, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2013
Somewhere, Washington State University Pullman, WA 2012
Beyond Mountains 山外山 C2 Gallery PWS, Jingdezhen, China 2010
Internal Distance(s), Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI 2009
In the Shadow of the Moon, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI 2008
Of a Moon Garden III, Korean Craft Promotion Foundation, Seoul, Korea 2007
Of a Moon Garden II, Harrison Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006
Of a Moon Garden I, Chung Nam National University Museum, Daejeon, Korea 2006
A Homing Instinct, Tomado Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2005
Accrescere, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2004
Jae Won Lee, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ 2002
Immigrant Flowers, Embassy of the United States in Germany, Berlin 2001
Shmucker Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 2001
Between the Petals, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI 2000
Jae Won Lee: Selected Work 1996-99, Tho Art Space Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 1999
European Ceramics Work Centre, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands 1999
Absent One, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI 1998
Still, Gallery II, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA 1998
Faculty Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA 1997
Jae Won Lee, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY 1996
On Longing, University Center Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 1996
CMA Gallery, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1996
Jae Won Lee: Recent Work, Revolution: A Gallery Project, Ferndale, MI 1995
Selected Group Exhibitions
Florilegium, Northern Clay Center, Minniapolis, MN 2016
Architectural Ceramics: Earth, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea 2016
Lee and Lee: Empathy Zone, Daecheongho Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea 2016
50 Women: A Celebration of Women’s Contribution to Ceramics, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition,
American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO 2016
Material Mythologies, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN 2016
Simple Cup Show 2015 Invitational, KOBO Gallery, Seattle, WA 2015
Beyond the Morning Calm, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL 2015
Six McKnight Artists, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN 2015
Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2015 International Competition, Korea Ceramic Foundation, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Ichoen, Korea 2015
Tidal Shift: Department of Art, Art History, and Design Faculty Triennial, Broad Art Museum, MSU, East Lansing, MI 2015
2014 Hangzhou International Contemporary Ceramic Biennale Exhibition, The China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2014
Flow, NCECA Ceramic Arts Invitational, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI 2014
The Sum of Its Parts, Santa Fe Clay, NM 2013
Bloom, NCECA Concurrent exhibition, Koelsch Gallery, Huston, TX 2013
Clay on the Wall, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2013
To Wander Out of Place: Artists and Asia, NCECA Concurrent exhibition, Seattle, WA 2012
Spatial Shift, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI 2012
Lincoln Gallery Series, Detroit Auto Show, Cobo Center, MI 2012
SEVEN (re)Thinking Ceramics, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashley, OR 2012
Jardin Zen, Espace Saint-Francois, Lausanne, Switzerland 2011
Sculpture Today: New Forces, New Forms, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, M, 2011
Ten Years of Contemporary Art at the Oakland University Art Gallery, Directors’ Selection, Rochester, MI 2010
Earth Matters, NCECA 2010 International Invitational, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA 2010
Of This Century: NCECA 2010 Concurrent Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2010
Visual Translation, NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Salt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010
Select, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI 2009
re-Collection III, on-site installation, Pottery Workshop Gallery, Shanghai, China 2009
NCECA 2009 Clay National, ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2009
Aquarart Miami, Aqua Wynwood, Miami, FL 2008
Visual Narratives; Reading Between the Lines, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 2008
86.28 Miles, Detroit Industrial Projects, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, MI 2008
Celebrating Ceramics: The Frieda K. Bradsher Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA 2008
Inner Surroundings, Paramount Gallery, Detroit, MI 2008
re-Collection, NCECA Two-person Collaboration, Project Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2008
Full and Spare, Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 2008
8 fluid ounces, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 2008
Surface, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI 2008
NCECA 2007 Clay National, Kentucky Museum of Art &Craft, Louisville, KY 2007
Winter Dwellings, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 2007
Excess, Gallery 66, Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT 2006
Drawing No Conclusions, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI 2006-07
The coffee was very slow in coming., Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI 2006
Stitch, Chungmu Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2006
Minimal/ist, NCECA 2006, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 2006
Cheeers -, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI 2005
White, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM 2005
Echoes: NCECA 2005, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD 2005
Reflections of Environment and Form, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD 2005
Yih-Wen Kuo & Jae Won Lee, Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005
Reflections of Environment and Form, Reese Museum, Johnson City, TN 2005
Minimal, Harrison Gallery, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2005
Reflections of Environment and Form, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 2004
Anderson Ranch Artists UM, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 2004
Asian American Ceramics: An Exhibition Celebrating Asian American Ceramics in the US, Kentucky Museum of Arts+Design,
Louisville, KY 2004
Forms, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 2004
Surface, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX 2004
Exit, Danmark Keramikmuseum, Museum of International Ceramic Art, Guldagergaard Research Center, Skaelskor, Denmark, 2004
Art Chicago 2004, International Invitational, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2004
Fifty Years of Ceramics 1954-2004, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI 2004
10 A Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI 2004
A Sense of Identity: Contemporary Ceramic Art, Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN 2004
A Sense of Identity: Contemporary Ceramic Art, University of Indianapolis, IN 2004
Home/land: Artists, Immigration and Identity, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX 2004
SOFA Chicago, The Tenth Annual International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, Navy Pier, Dubhe Carreno
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003
Anderson Ranch Artists, Lillstreet Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003
21st Century Ceramics, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH 2003
Faculty Exhibition, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 2003
Home/land: Artists, Immigration and Identity, Society of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA 2003
NCECA 2003 Clay National, R. B. Stevenson Gallery San Diego, CA 2003
Invitational Archie Bray Foundation Exhibition, Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ 2003
Less is More, ceramics with a minimal aesthetic, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, 2002
Wish You Were Here, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI 2002
Representing Forms, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR 2002
Pas De Deux, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI 2002
SOFA New York, Seventh Regiment Armory, Gallery Materia, New York, NY 2002
4x10 Ceramic Sculpture, Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA 2002
Porcelain: Another Touch, Red Star Studio, NCECA, Kansas City, MO 2002
Studio Days 2001, Chester Springs Studio Center for Visual Arts, PN 2001
A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence, 2001-2005, 17 venues, A Touring show starting from Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Porcelain Revisited, Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury Center, VT 2001
Wayne Higby: Reunion, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, PN 2001
NCECA 2001 Clay National, Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC 2001
Commence Vision, Peck Gallery, Providence, RI 2000
Exchange, Technikon Pretoria and Port Elizabeth Technikon, South Africa 2000
Sangamam, Chitraniketan Art Gallery, Trivandrum, Kerala, India 2000
SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Revolution Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999
Abstract Craft: The Non-Objective Object, Southwest School of Art &Craft, San Antonio, TX 1999
Academic Position/Teaching Experience
Michigan State University, Professor, East Lansing, MI 2013-present
Michigan State University, Associate Professor, East Lansing, MI 2005-2013
Chung Nam National University, Visiting Faculty, Daejeon, Korea 2006
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Assistant Professor, New Brunswick, NJ2003-04
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Faculty, Snowmass Village, CO 2001, 2003
Camberwell College of Arts, The London Institute, Tutor, London, The UK 2000
Michigan State University, Assistant Professor, East Lansing, MI 1998-2005
California State University, Lecturer, Long Beach, CA 1997-98
University of Washington, Lecturer, Seattle, WA 1996
Artist in Residence
Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea 2016
Laoyatan Tile Factory, MSU HARP Research Grant Residency, Jingdezhen, China 2016
Laoyatan Tile Factory, Fulbright Research Scholarship Residency, Jingdezhen, China 2015
Northern Clay Center, McKnight Residency, Minneapolis, MN 2015
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2013
Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan 2012
Beijing University, China 2010
Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China 2010
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME 2007
Pottery Workshop, Shanghai, China 2007
Chung Nam National University, Deajeon, Korea 2006
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2006
Danmark Keramikmuseum, Museum of International Ceramic Art, Guldagergaard Research Center, Skaelskor, Denmark 2004
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO 2001
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 2001
Chitaniketan Artist Residency, Kovalam, Kerala, India 2000
Camberwell College of Arts, The London Institute, London, the UK 2000
Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum, ‘Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands 1999
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO 1997
Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT 1995-96
Curatorial & Jury
Closer, (Scene) Metrospace, Juror, East Lansing, MI 2015
2015 Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant, Panel, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN 2015
Raphael Founder’s Prize sponsored by the Society for Contemporary Craft, Guest juror, Pittsburgh, PA 2013
The Clay Studio, External Juror of Selection of Artists-in-Residence, Philadelphia, PN 2013
National Juried Exhibition, Two x Two Small-Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial, juror, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 2013
Obsession, Co-curator, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI 2009
MSU/WSU Graduate Exchange Exhibition, Curator, Gallery 114, MSU, East Lansing, MI 2005
White on White, NCECA, Curator, Sub-Basement Artist Studios, Baltimore, MD 2005
White on White, Curator, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2005
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Panel, Selection of Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD 2004 Maryland State Arts Council, Panel, Selection of Visual Artists Award, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD 2004 The Clay Studio, External Juror of Selection of Artists-in-Residence, Philadelphia, PA 2004
Lecture and Workshop
City Design School, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 2015
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2015
Central University of Finance and Economy, Beijing, China, 2015
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN, 2015
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2015
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2013
Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver BC, Canada 2012
NCECA 2012 Program presenter, New Work, Seattle, WA 2012
Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan 2012
National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan 2012
Central Academy of Fine Arts City Design School, Beijing, China 2011
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2011
California State University, Long Beach, CA 2009
Oakland University, Rochester Hills, MI 2009
Adrian College, Adrian, MI 2009
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 2007
Namseoul University, Cheonan, South Korea 2006
Chung Nam National University, Daejeon, South Korea 2006
Hong Ik University, Seoul, South Korea 2006
Ewha Womens University, Seoul, South Korea 2006
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2006
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2006
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 2005
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2004
State University of New York, New Paltz, NY 2003
College of Art and Design, Halle, Germany 2001
Loughborough University School of Art and Design, Leicester, the UK 2000
Kook Min University, Seoul, Korea 1999
Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea 1999
Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI 1999
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 1999
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1999
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 1998
The 7th Jinro International Ceramic Art Workshop, Seoul, Korea 1997
Kyung-Nam University, Masan, Korea 1997
Selected Collection
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA Dale and Doug Anderson, New York, NY
Archie Bray Foundation of Ceramic Art, Helena, MT Paul Bankes & Lydia Shelly, Philadelphia, PA
Tina & Peter Barnet, New York, NY
Danmarks Keramikmuseum, Museum of International Ceramics Art-Denmark Dede & Oscar Feldman, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Hong Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
Jinro Cultural Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Doo Shik Lee, Dean’s Office, Hong Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
Vincent Lim and Robert Tooey, Philadelphia, PA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Camille Lyons, Austin, TX
Dr. Marlin Miller, Arrow International, Reading, PA
Robert Pfannebecker Collection, Lancaster, PA
Ted Rowland, Ft. Worth, TX
The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY
Peter Stepek, New York, NY
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI
Arthur Williams Collection, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography
A Ceramic Continuum, Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence, Edited by Peter Held, University of Washington Press, 2001,
P. 75, 115
American Craft, Portfolio, December 99/January 00, P.60
Art, Korean Monthly Art Magazine, Review, Exhibition Round Table, January 2000, P.151-157
Britt, John, The Complete Guide to High-Fired Glazes, Lark Books, 2004, P. 93, 121
Bonansinga, Kate, Nature, Manipulation and the Hybrid Ceramic Sculpture Today, Exhibition Catalogue,
Full and Spare, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, 2008
C. May, Review, The Hindu, India’s National Newspaper, April 21, 2000
Cantu, John, Surface, Exhibition Review, Ann Arbor News, March 23, 2008
Ceramic Art Monthly, Korean, Insight into International Ceramic Art, January 2000, P. 18-19 Ceramic Art Monthly, Korean, Preview, December, 1999
Ceramics Monthly, Review, March 1997, P. 22-23, Volume 45 #3
Choi, Sukjin, Ceramic Art Monthly, Korean, Exhibition Review, February, 2006
Choi, SukJin, The Korea Times, Jae Won Lee, White on White, April 20, 2005 P. D8
Colby, Joy Hakanson, Jae Won Lee: Porcelain, The Detroit News, October 6, 2000
Colby, Joy Hakanson, Review, The Detroit News, February 20, 1997
Craig, Gerry, Sculpture, Intangible Landscape, January/February 2006, P. 50-51
The Gettysburg Times, Review, January 18, 2001
Gilkerson, Mary Bentz, Form Over Function, Free Times, Exhibition Review,
September 29-October 5, 2004, Columbia, SC
Grayce Scholt, Review, Flint Journal, October 24, 1999
Haddad, Natalie, Stage & Canvas, Real Detroit Weekly, February 11-17, 2004
Han, Woosung. Review, The Korea Times, June 8, 1998
Henderson, Harvest, The Oregonian, Visual Arts, Boldly into the future with ceramics, P. 42, February 10-16, 2006 Hunt, Bill, 21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada, The American Ceramic Society, 2003, P.11 Internal Distance(s), Exhibition Catalogue, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, 2009
Jones, Tricia, The Columbian, A Celebration of Ceramics, P. D5, February 10, 2006
Kerameiki Techni, Autumn 1996, Issue 24, P. 58-59
Keri Guten Cohen, Minimalists make you come closer and ponder, Detroit Free Press, January 3,1999
Kim, Jinah, Ceramic Art Monthly, Korean, Exhibition Review, July, 2005, P. 19
Koream Journal, December 1998, Volume 9 #12
Lee, Jae Won, Of a Moon Garden, Korean Craft Promotion Foundation, Solo Exhibition Catalog, June 2007 Malayalam Manorama, Kerala State newspaper of India, Review, April 21, 2000
MSU Today, Faculty Today, Leading by Example, Fall 2007
Muses, Portrait of a Faculty: The MSU Department of Art, College of Arts and Letters, MSU, P.8, 9
Robinson, Phaedra, Review, The Enduring Revolution, Metro Times, February 11-17, 2004
Santiago, Chiori, American Craft, Still Life, December 97/January 98, P.51-53
Shepard, Claudia. Review, Ground Up #13- Independent Monthly Journal, February, 1997
Shirley Gonzales, Guilford Juried National, Ceramics Monthly, December 1997, P. 35-38, Volume 45 #12 Schwartz, Judith S., Kerameiki Techni, International Ceramic Art Review, The Next Generation of Ceramic Artists in America, Issue 41, August 2002. P. 31-36
Studio Potter, 24 Michigan Potters, P. 66, Volume 30 #1, 2002
Studio Potter, Sculpture: Nine Voices, December 2005, P. 16-17, Volume 34 #1 The Detroit News, Review, Ferndale shows make you think and laugh, July 9, 2009 The Korea Times, Preview, Individual Identities, November 16, 1998
The Monthly Art Magazine Wolgan Misool, Preview, December, 1999, P.197 Thomas, Mary, Contemporary Clay Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, D-2, March 22, 2008 Tysh, George, Preview, Clay Motion, Metro Times, September 6, 2000
Tysh, George, Review, Art adds Life, Metro Times, December 16-22, 1998 Worth, Jan, Review, Flint Journal, January 23, 2000
The Monthly Art Magazine Wolgan Misool, Preview, December, 1999, P.197