Kyoo Lee

Kyoo Lee aka Q, Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York and Editor of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, is a philosopher, writer, critic and curator. Q’s recent curatorial projects include work as the editorial manager for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2022 (Gyre by Yunchul Kim); the adviser, collaborator and presenter at the 30th anniversary exhibition on the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, 1995-2024 (Every Island is a Mountain by Arts Council Korea, 2024); a guest curator at Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin (Shamanism Room, The Rabbit Inhabits the Moon, 2024-5); and the founder of the ESTUAR series (2023-), started in collaboration with Microclima, Venice. 

 

The author of Reading Descartes Otherwise, a chapbook Entanglish, a forthcoming book on visual philopoetics and many other texts on other matters, Q has been a recipient of faculty fellowships from Cambridge University, KIAS, the NEH and the Mellon Foundation among others. In 2022, in recognition of Q’s transdisciplinary philopoetic scholarship where critical theory meets creative prose, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) established ‘The Kyoo “Q” Lee Prize for Best Paper on LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy’ also to promote genre-bending innovative work among emerging scholars.