Ken Shu Lee is an art critic, a curator, a publisher, a lecturer, a writer and a filmmaker. With his interest in the identity and historicity of art since modernization, he produced exhibitions demonstrating the communication and interactions between old and new generations of art. How will we capture the signs of post-colonialism and overcome the standardized globalization? He is seeking a model of globalism that is a true combination of globalism and localism. How can art survive amidst the environment of commercialized art? Lee questions how the social role of art and autonomy of artists can be separated. He considers the destruction of barriers between the East and the West, tradition and modernity and center and periphery with the theme of art as communication.

Ken Shu Lee (born in Seoul, 1965) has curated exhibitions in South Korea, including Maestro, 2002; Oriental Painting Paradiso, 2003; Moon Garden, 2008; and Landscape Dot Human, 2012. He also organized Biennale Archive at the Busan Biennale 2014, a special exhibition recalling the 50-year history of Korean participation. As a journalist and the chief editor of Monthly Art, Lee is most noted for his career as an art journalist for 17 years.