Ms. Lee holds a BFA in fibers from Dong-A University in Pusan, Korea, as well as an MFA in Book Arts/ printmaking, and an MFA in fibers from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Ms. Lee has taught at Birmingham Bloomfield Hills Art Center, College for Creative Studies, and Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School in Michigan. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Cranbrook Educational Community from 2001-2003. Currently Ms. Lee is Head of Fibers/Assistant Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Ms. Lee has had five solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally at museums including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Pusan, Korea, The Birmingham Bloomfield Hills Art Center, The Ann Arbor Art Center, The Detroit Contemporary Gallery, and The Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan.

A published writer, in 1997, Ms. Lee wrote an essay entitled “Contemporary Book Arts” for the monthly magazine Design and in January of 2004, she wrote an article entitled “66595miles (10614KM)” for the Michigan Korean Journal. She regularly contributes essays to the Korean monthly magazine Crart.

Ms. Lee has organized two international exchange exhibitions, “-trans” and “66595miles (10614KM)”, between Korea and the US in 1998 and 2004.

In 2004, Ms. Lee received a Junior Minority Faculty Grant Award from The Lindback Foundation.

Recently Ms. Lee worked as an editor for “Art Textile of the World: Korea” volume1 (2005) and volume 2 (2006) a publication of Telos Art Publishing Company (England).

In the summer of 2005, Ms. Lee designed the costumes for International Opera Theater’s Il Racconto D’Inverno, an operatic adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale,  performed in Teatro degli Avvaloranti. In the summer of 2006, Ms. Lee designed both the costumes and set for IOT’s La Tempesta.

In the summer of 2008, Ms. Lee designed the costumes for IOT’s production of Romeo e Giulietta.