About me

Kahyun Lee is an independent curator and researcher whose work frames curating as both a critical practice and a mode of alternative knowledge production, extending beyond the boundaries of visual arts. Driven by an interest in conditions and formations of dominant narratives, Lee’s curatorial practice questions the structural frameworks such as institutions, national borders and identities. Through the language of exhibitions and programmes, Lee aims to cultivate a collective space that reflects on the past, examines the present and reimagines the future.

Currently, Lee is a doctoral researcher at the Royal College of Art London and Tate Modern supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. Lee’s research explores transnational curating and curatorial narratives of East Asian contemporary art at Tate Modern. Lee also delivers public programmes at the Design Museum London, making design accessible to all and fostering collective insights into the world through the lens of design. Lee previously curated exhibitions and programmes at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan and the British Library.