The article reports on the exhibition "Lee Kang So: A Field of Becoming" at the Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY), running from May 13 to June 20, 2026. It surveys the artist's career from the 1970s to the present, featuring painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. Lee Kang So is a key figure in Korean Experimental Art of the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that the article positions as an alternative genealogy to the more internationally recognized Dansaekhwa movement.
This exhibition matters because it challenges the dominant narrative that Dansaekhwa alone represents Korean modern and contemporary art. By highlighting Lee's process-based, participatory, and time-based works—such as his 1973 piece "Disappearance – Bar in the Gallery"—the article argues that Korean Experimental Art was a parallel, radical current that moved Korean art toward contemporary art conditions. It offers a more complex, inclusive history of Korean art's transition to the global stage.