Solo Exhibitions
2009 Borrowed Time, Pierogi: Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Recent Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
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 Price Center Galleries A & B,
La Jolla, CA
Paintings from ’97 to ’99, University of California, San Diego Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Cream, No Sugar, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Boiler Grand Opening: Yoon Lee, Jonathan Shipper, Tavares Strachan, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Artisterium '08: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, ARCI Gallery, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Tournesol Award Fifth 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, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Selections from New American Paintings: MFA Annual, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
(Un)Natural Selection, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
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, Gallery at Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Painting's Edge Participant Show, Park Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
Up & Coming, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
That's So Queer, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MFA Vernissage, Herbst Pavillion at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Free Love, Club Bohemia, San Francisco, CA
2004 Ad-Hoc, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Post-postcard Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Aesthetics of Cuteness, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Imbued, Gallery at Thoreau Center, San Francisco, CA
2003 MFA Open House, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
C-Note, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1999 Spring Festival of the Arts, University of California, San Diego Annex Gallery, 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, University of California, San Diego Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Bibliography
Sutton, Benjamin. Controlled Explosions, The L Magazine, October 09, 2009
Cotter, Holland. Yoon Lee, Jonathan Shipper, Tavares Strachan, The New York Times, April 16, 2009
Saltz, Jerry. Energy to Burn, New York Magazine, March 22, 2009
Zevitas, Steven T. Pub. New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, 2008
Harper's Magazine, June 2008
Kalm, James. Brooklyn Dispatches: Computer Brain, or Human Stain, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2008
Barmeyer, Mary Logan. Yoon Lee, Paper Magazine, March 2008
Catalogue: Yoon Lee, Pierogi, NY 2008
Hackett, Regina. Never Fear, Painting is Here, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 17 January 2008
Cover, Time Out: New York, February 22-28, 2007
Zevitas, Steven T. Pub. New American Paintings, 2005-6 MFA Edition, Open Studios Press, 2006
Huston, Johnny Ray. Goldies 2006: Yoon Lee, SF Bay Guardian, Volume 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, www.artforum.com, 12 July - 5 August 2006
Huston, Johnny Ray. Verve Syntheses, SF Bay Guardian, Volume 40, Issue 40, July 5 - 11, 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
Berry, Colin. 'Cream: From the Top' at Arts Benicia, Artweek, October 2005, pp. 13-14
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Hromack, Sarah. High Varnish, www.sfist.com, 23 May 2005
Awards and Honors
2007 Eduardo Carrillo Prize, San Jose Museum of Art & Museo Eduardo Carrillo, CA
2006 Outstanding Local Discovery Award: Visual Art, SF 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
1997 Stuart Collection Committee Prize, University of California, San Diego, CA
Residencies
2010 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2007 Visions from the New California Residency, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Painting's Edge, Idyllwild, CA
2005-2006 Tournesol Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Saulsalito, CA
2005 Painting's Edge, Idyllwild, CA
Education
2005 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1999 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA
1997 - 1998 Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA