Sammy Lee Papers

Sammy Seung-Min Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and a proprietor of Studio SML | k (small k) in Denver. Her work focuses on spatial, narrative, and sequential qualities in personal history, as she incorporates her diverse explorations in art and architecture. She was born and raised in Seoul, Korea and moved to Southern California at the age of sixteen. She studied fine art and media art at UCLA and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. she also learned bookbinding under the tutelage of master bookbinder Daniel Kelm in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections at the Getty Research Institute, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Spanish National Library in Madrid, Spain. Currently she is a resident artist at Redline, serves as Board of Directors for Asian Art Association at Denver Art Museum, and operates a new contemporary Asian art project space, called Collective SML | k in Santa Fe Art District, Denver. Source: studiosmlk.com