In Conversation: Sammy Seung-min Lee & Leilani Lynch

Join exhibiting multidisciplinary artist Sammy Seung-min Lee and MCA Denver Curator Leilani Lynch at the museum to discuss the ideas, materials, and meaning behind Lee’s practice and her current exhibition, .

About the Artist

Sammy Seung-min Lee’s (b. 1975, Seoul; lives and works in Denver) work has been the subject of recent presentations at Store Namsan, Korea (2024), Emmanuel Art Gallery, CO (2021), Lakewood Cultural Center, CO (2018), and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO (2014). She has held residencies at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, CO, the Studios at Mass MoCA, MA, and Anderson Ranch, CO.

A recipient of fellowships from Joan Mitchell Foundation (2025), Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (2023 – 24), and Colorado Creative Industries (2020), Lee also directs Collective SML | k, a Denver-based contemporary art space she founded in 2017.

About the Curator

Leilani Lynch is the Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lynch has organized numerous museum exhibitions, including Movements Toward Freedom (2024), Gala Porras-Kim: A hand in nature (2024); Steven Yazzie: Meandered (2024); Ken Gun Min: The Lost Paradise (2024); and Anna Tsouhlarakis: Indigenous Absurdities (2023). From 2015 to 2022, Leilani held several curatorial positions at The Bass, Miami Beach. There, she curated exhibitions with artists including Jamilah Sabur, Cara Despain, Naama Tsabar, Karen Rifas, Aaron Curry, Mika Rottenberg, in addition to co-organizing exhibitions by Adrián Villar Rojas, Haegue Yang, and Paola Pivi.

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