Solo Exhibitions:
2025 Topologies For Collapse, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA
2024 Still lives in transition, Hamilton Artist Inc, Hamilton, ON, CA
2023 Taming clouds is at the end of dreams, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON, CA
2022 Holding for a better tomorrow, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON, CA
2021 How to Unfold a Home, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, YT, CA
2021 Flowers in the Park, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, ON, CA
2019 How to Fix a Broken Home, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON, CA
Group Exhibitions:
Upcoming To be determined (Three-Person Exhibition with Gloria Fan Duan and Isabel Bonafe, Curated by Taeyi Kim), Espacio Derivado, Seville, Spain
2026 To Elongate, To Entwine (Duo Exhibition with Yixuan Wu), Gallery 456, New York, NY, US.
2026 The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of Connection, Bronx Museum, NY, US
2025 Surface Bent, Friends Artspace, Arlington, VA, US
2023 What a Fool Believes, Subtitled NYC, Brooklyn, NY, US
2023 in medias res, theBLANC, New York, NY, US2023 Stand-Outs: Selection from the Columbia MFA Program, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, US
2023 Graduate Exhibition (Columbia University), Lenfest Center, New York City, US
2022 Back to School, 164 Ashburton Ave, Yonkers, NY, US
2022 Otherwise, Half Gallery, New York City, US
2022 Nounmena, Chashama, New York City, US
2022 1st Year MFA Exhibition (Columbia University), Lenfest Center, New York City, US
2021 Untitled Group Exhibition Curated by Rikrit Tiravanji, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, US
2021 Meaning of Things, Duo with Raquel Da Silva, Collision Gallery in collaboration with New Currency and Sheep Studio, Toronto, ON
2021 Gladstone Hotel Room Art Installation, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2021 Scale Value Vision, Rudimento, Quito, Ecuador
2019 Flowers in the Park, Trafalgar Park Community Centre, Oakville, ON
2019 #FoxyPopUp, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Edition Art Book Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
2019 Stick it to the Man, Margin of Eras Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair 2019, City Hall, Toronto, ON
2019 Xpace Fundraiser, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2019 Permanent Collection, Vermont International Museum of Contemporary Art + Design, Vermont, US
2019 The Tile was Still the Same Installation in collaboration with Josi Smit & Cleo Halfpenny andcurated by Natalie Castrogiovanni, 12 Ossington, Toronto, ON
2019 Red Head Collective Presents: Pentimento, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 The Artist Project 2019 – Installation Zone, Better Living Centre, Toronto, ON
2019 Got It For Cheap, Agnes B Headquarters, Paris, France
2019 Got It For Cheap & Velvet Ropes, The Costume House, Toronto, ON
2018 The House That Gleams with a Yellow Light, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018 Hard Twist 13: Thread, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2018 INTAC Ritual, Samtan Art Mine, Jeongseon, KR
2018 Different Views, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2018 The Artist Project 2018 - Installation Zone, Better Living Centre, Toronto, ON
2018 INTAC Ritual, Osaka University, Osaka, JP
2018 Re//Verb INTAC Fundraiser, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 Salon of Inclusiveness, Black Cat Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 Fresh Paint / New Construction, Art Mȗr, Montreal, QC
2017 OCAD University Graduate Exhibition, Toronto, ON
2017 Tourists From Ourselves (Duo Exhibition), Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 Yorkville Village Arts Festival, Yorkville Village, Toronto, ON
2016 Art + Design Social Justice Exchange, OCAD University Great Hall, Toronto, ON
2016 Place/Privilege/Power, Ada Slaight Student Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 Dissociate Aspects, Ben Navee Gallery, Toronto, ON
Education/Residencies:
2025-2026 Bronx Museum AIM Fellow, Bronx, NY, US
2025 NARS Foundation Resident, Brooklyn, NY, US
2023 Columbia University, MFA in Visual Arts, New York City, NY
2021 Merit Scholarship resident at NAVE Residency, Guayllabamba, Ecuador
2019 Resident at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2018 OCAD University, BFA in Sculpture & Installation, Toronto, ON
Awards/Grants:
2024 Canada Council for the Arts – Travel: Residency Grant
2022-2023 Canada Council for the Arts - Explore and Create: Research and Creation
2021 Ontario Arts Council - Arts Response Initiative Grant
2020 Canada Council for the Arts - Explore and Create: Concept to Realization Grant
2020 Ontario Arts Council - Visual Artist Creation Project Grant
2019 Toronto Arts Council - Visual Artists Program Grant
2019, 2021 Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant
2019 CUE Project Grant
2017 Project 31 Sculpture/Installation Award
2017 Summer Company Grant
Publications/Writings:
2026 Exhibition Review By Liam Otero: “To Elongate, To Entwine”: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/10-may-1-2026-/7776
2026 Sangmin Lee & Yixuan Wu by Yindi Chen: https://artdaily.com/news/196185/Sangmin-Lee---Yixuan-Wu--To-Elongate--To-Entwine
2024 When Still Life Doesn’t Sit Still by Ho Won Kim
2024 Sangmin Lee at Hamilton Artists Inc. by Stephanie Vegh https://akimbo.ca/akimblog/sangmin-lee-at-hamilton-artists-inc/
2022 Poltern Newsletter 017 by Anna Ghadar and Victoria Horrock
2020 Under the Bridge - Installation Issue by Leia Genis
2019 Cross Process 3 - Publication by Cross Process
2019 How to Fix a Broken Home - Essay by Francis May
2019 The Tile was Still the Same - Publication by Natalie Castrogiovanni
2018 30 Artists to look for at the Toronto Artist Project - by Amy Carlberg: https://www.blogto.com/arts/2018/02/artists-toronto-artist-project-2018/
2018 The Artist Project 2018 (Review) https://www.artoronto.ca/?p=39957
2017 What to See at OCAD's GradEx by Krista Castelo: http://www.toronto.com/things-to do/ocad-gradex-exhibit/