Seung Lee is a Korean-American contemporary artist. He received BFA in Drawing from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Seung Lee is an Associate Professor of Art at Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus. He is a director of Fine Arts and Graduate Studies. His paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations have been exhibited extensively in the US as well as internationally. He has received numerous reviews in the New York Times, Newsday, Art Word magazine, Art Price magazine, Art in Culture magazine and included in Artist Profiles of Korea and Japan.

When he was 15 years of age, his uncle-in-law, who served as an American soldier in Korea, brought Seung's whole family to America. The United States of America was an ideal world for him compared to his financial struggle in Korea due to the lost of his father at the age of 8. From working as a taxi driver in New York City and spending his childhood on the street, Seung created his artworks by using found objects from the street. This might be the reason he cannot pass by abandoned objects on the street.

Art Critic, Phyllis Braff, President Emerita, International Association of Art Critics wrote:

"Seung Lee's consistent interweaving of message and material is one quality that makes his career stand apart. By basing his art on found objects that immediately declare their previous existence, he introduces a wealth of ambiguous historical associations that invite a broad range of interpretations. The pieces have an underlying seriousness that inevitably stimulates philosophical questions about the layering of time and meaning, physicality, and the transcending value of using reality. Socio-scientific attitudes come into play too: saving versus discarding; the role of the past; consciously determined recycling, and nature's own laws governing the changing character of all organic matter."

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