Jun Lee
Jun Lee is a printmaker who works in large format woodcut utilizing animals as metaphors to convey competition in our daily lives. She is the Printmaking Artist in Residence at the Lee Arts Center in Arlington, VA, and she teaches relief printmaking at Montgomery College.
Her work resides in collections including the Public Art Collection of the Montgomery County Public Art Trust and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank. She was a semifinalist for the 2018 Sondheim Artscape Prize and was awarded the Artist in Residency from Montgomery College in 2018, the Denbo Fellowship from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in 2017, and residencies at Penland School of Crafts in 2017 through 2020.
Lee’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at: Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, The Little Gallery (Omaha, NE), Alper Initiative for Washington Art at the American University Museum, University of Maryland Global Campus, Highpoint Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis, MN), Decker and Meyerhoff galleries (Baltimore, MD), Maryland Institute College of Art, Artists and Makers Studios (Rockville, MD), K Space Contemporary (Corpus Christi, TX), Purdue University Galleries (West Lafayette, IN), Waverly Street Gallery (Bethesda, MD), Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery (Washington, DC), Insa Art Center (Seoul, South Korea), and Daimler Financial Services Atrium (Berlin, Germany). Lee attended the Minneapolis College of Art & Design where she earned a BFA in Illustration in 2002 and a Post Baccalaureate in Printmaking in 2004. In 2007, she received her MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
