Biography

Sandra Sunnyo Lee was born in Korea (1947). She received a B.A. in American and English Literature from Ehwa Women’s University in Seoul, Korea (1976), and both a B.F.A. (1989) and M.F.A. (1992) from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had solo exhibitions at the SOHO Center For Visual Artists in New York, the Kennedy Art Center Gallery in Oakland, and Mace Gallery in San Francisco. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara and the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. This would be the first work by Lee to enter SJMA’s permanent collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2005)

SJMA's Di Napoli Skybridge exhibition features work by two artists with similar cultural roots who work in distinctly different styles.Sandra Sunnyo Lee creates closely cropped frontal images of the face using oil on canvas, which is informed by her exploration of fundamental life themes. She uses consistent imagery in each group of works to represent bodies of philosophical and spiritual inquiry. Her work references Buddhist principles, namely that everything is made from the same substance (or emptiness), and that physical and nonphysical reality are really one and the same. Born in Korea in 1947, she received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.

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