Sujin Lee graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art and received a master’s degree in studio art and performance studies at New York University. Lee received the Millay Colony for the Arts Residency, Robert W. Simpson Fellowship in 2009, and the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship in 2012 and 2013. In 2016, the artist was selected as one of SeMA’s Emerging Artists to hold her first solo exhibition The Distance between Words at Cake Gallery.