She is the Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator of the Harvard Art Museums.
[1][2] Lee was born in Jakarta, where her father was a Korean diplomat tasked with promoting Korean art and culture, and has lived in Stockholm, London, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Tokyo.
[1] Her research has focused on cross-cultural exchanges in East Asian Art.
At the Met, she has curated the exhibitions such as Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400–1600 (2009); Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art (2011); Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom (2014); and Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art (2018).
[1] In 2018, Lee was hired by Harvard Art Museums to serve as its new chief curator.