Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2019 ...the end of the world, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 New Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Road to Absolution, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Confluence, Mirrored, Emerson College, Little Building Scaffolding Project, Boston, MA
2011 Minor Inconveniences, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2009 Borrowed Time, Pierogi: Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Recent Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
2006 Verve Syntheses, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 A Recapitulation (Multi-filtered), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2001 A Sampler, Claire de Lune, San Diego, CA
1999 Miscellaneous Textural Curiosities, University of California,San Diego, Galleries A & B, La Jolla, CA
Paintings from ’97 to ’99,AnnexGallery at University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 To Freeze the Shifting Phantasmagoria, Jackie Headley University Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA
side by side/in the world, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2012 10 Revolutions Around the Sun: A Decade of the Tournesol Painting Award,Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
2011 Sea Change: Part Two, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
Subjective / Objective, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Seven, Pierogi, Miami, FL
2009 Cream, No Sugar, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Boiler Grand Opening: Yoon Lee, Jonathan Shipper, Tavares Strachan, Pierogi: Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Artisterium ’08: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Tournesol Award 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Pierogi et al, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase
Out of the Fog, Art Works Downtown, San Raphael, CA
The Prom, Lawrimore Projects, Seattle, WA
2007 In the Fullness of Time, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Red Hot – Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
(Un)Natural Selection, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Swab, Contemporary, Barcelona, Spain
Euphorion: Art from San Francisco, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
2006 Moxie, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 CMYK / RGB, TransAmerica Center, San Francisco, CA
Painting’s Edge 5, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Cream - from the Top, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA
Painting’s Edge Participant Show, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
Up & Coming, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
That’s So Queer, Crucible Steel Gallery at Cell Space, San Francisco, CA
Vernissage & MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavillion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Free Love, Club Bohemia, San Francisco, CA
2004 Ad-Hoc, Crucible Steel Gallery at Cell Space, San Francisco, CA
Aesthetics of Cuteness, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Swell Gallery at San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2003 MFA Open House, Swell Gallery at San Francisco Art Institute, CA
C-Note, San Diego Art Institute, CA
1999 Spring Festival of the Arts,Annex Gallery at University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1998 Senior Painting Exhibition,Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Mandeville Group Show,University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Spring Festival of the Arts,Annex Gallery at University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Bibliography

Mack, Jordan. Yoon Lee and the Meticulous Diligence of Art, Milk Made, 14 April 2015
Baker, Kenneth. Yoon Lee keeping busy, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 September 2011
Curiel, Jonathan. Fall Arts: Eight Visual Arts Exhibits You Must See This Season, SF Weekly, 7 September 2011
Swanhuyser, Hiya. ‘Minor Inconveniences’ Brings Out Major Abstractions, SF Weekly, 3 September 2011
Ten Years, Part Deux, SF Weekly, 3 September 2011
Sutton, Benjamin. Controlled Explosions The L Magazine, October 09, 2009
Cotter, Holland. Yoon Lee, Jonathan Shipper, Tavares Strachan, SF Weekly, 7 September 2011
Saltz, Jerry. Energy to Burn, New York Magazine, March 22, 2009
Zevitas, Steven T. Pub. New American Paintings, 2005-6 MFA Edition, Open Studios Press, 2006
Huston, Johnny Ray. Goldies 2006: Yoon Lee, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 41, Issue 6 November 8-14, 2006
Baker, Kenneth. Yoon Lee at the Luggage Store, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 July 2006
Helfand, Glen. Critic’s Picks: Yoon Lee, www.artforum.com, 12 July – 5 August 2006
Huston, Johnny Ray. Verve Syntheses, SF Bay Guardian, Volume 40, Issue 40, 5 July – 11 July 2006
Leaverton, Michael. Yoon Lee Lifts Off, SF Weekly, 7 July 2006
Matthews, Lydia. Headlands Center for the Arts, Tournesol Award Exhibition 2006, San Francisco, CA
The Luggage Store Gallery: 2006 (Brochure)
Chlala, Youmna & Jones, Brent Foster. Ed. Eleven Eleven: Journal of Literature and Art, Vol. 3, 2006, pp. 34-38
Baker, Kenneth. ‘Moxie’ at Clark, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 February 2006
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Hromack, Sarah. High Varnish, www.sfist.com, 23 May 2005

Awards/Grants/Fellowships

2013 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2012 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2007 Eduardo Carrillo Prize, San Jose Art Museum & Museo Eduardo Carrillo, CA
2006 Outstanding Local Discovery Award: Visual Art, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, CA
Alliance of Artists Communities’ Visions from the New California Award, James Irvine Foundation
2005 Tournesol Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Residencies

2012 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2007 Artist in Residence, 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild, CA
2005 Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild, CA

Visiting Artist Lectures

2008 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (artist talk)
2007 San Francisco Art Institute, CA (panel discussion)
2006 Sonoma State University, CA
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2005 Arts Benicia, CA (panel discussion)

Commissions

2016 Permanent installation at One Market Plaza, for Paramount Group, with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, CA
2011 Confluence, Mirrored, Emerson College, Little Building Scaffolding Project, Boston, MA
2008 Artists Designs for Global Initiative, Pepsi Corp.
2006 Be Delicious Limited Edition Perfume Design, DKNY

Education

2005 MFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1999 BA Visual Arts (studio), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1997-98 Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA