Steven Young Lee has been the resident artist director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana since 2006. In 2004-05, he lectured and taught at numerous universities throughout China as part of a one-year cultural and educational exchange in Jingdezhen, Shanghai and Beijing. In 2005-6 he was a visiting professor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C.
Lee has lectured extensively in North America and Asia. In the Fall of 2016 he was one of four artists featured as part of the Renwick Invitational at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. In March 2013, he participated on a panel, "Americans in the Porcelain City," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Also in 2013, he was one of several international artists invited to participate in “New Blue and White,” an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA that featured contemporary artists working in the blue-and-white tradition of ceramic production. In 2019 he had a solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum.
He is represented by the Duane Reed Gallery, Ferrin Contemporary and The Archie Bray Foundation Gallery. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian Museum, The Newark Museum, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Korea, as well as many private and public collections.
Lee received his BFA and MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University. Originally from Chicago, he lives in Helena with his wife, Lisa and their two children Gavin and Florence.
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Education
2004 MFA, Ceramic Art and Design, Alfred University
1998 BFA, Ceramic Art; Art Education, Alfred University
NYS Teaching Certification, magna cum laude
93-95 Business, Studio Art, University of Iowa
Selected Exhibitions
2019 SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery
Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Art Market San Francisco, Duane Reed Gallery
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2018 CONTEXT Miami, Duane Reed Gallery
SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery
Art Market San Francisco, Duane Reed Gallery
2017 CONTEXT Miami, Duane Reed Gallery
SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2016 Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
Art Aspen, Duane Reed Gallery
Art Market San Francisco, Duane Reed Gallery
Palm Springs Fine Art, Duane Reed Gallery
2015 SCOPE Miami, Duane Reed Gallery
SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery
Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014 SCOPE Miami 2014 - Duane Reed Gallery
SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Art Palm Springs, Duane Reed Gallery
Art Palm Beach, Duane Reed Gallery
St. Croix Pottery Tour, Oestreich Studio, Minneapolis, MN
2013 SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
New York Ceramics Fair, Ferrin Gallery, NY
2012 Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Palm Beach, Duane Reed Gallery
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
ASU Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, AZ
2011 Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN
Ferrin Gallery, SOFA, New York, NY
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Archie Bray 60th Anniversary Auction, Helena, MT
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MI
St. Petersbrg Clay, St. Petersburg, FL
Selected Collections
Everson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Four Seasons Hotel, Seoul, South Korea
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Crocker Art Museum, Swidler Collection, Sacramento, CA
Schein-Joseph Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY
San Bao Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen, China
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
Arrow International Inc., Marlin Miller Jr., Reading, PA
Standard Ceramic Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, IL
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