Education

2022 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA

2018 BA (Summa Cum Laude, Honors in Studio Art), Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2017 Arts and Society Exchange Program, Bard College Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2016 Princeton in Ishikawa, Princeton University, Kanazawa, Japan


Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2026

Ladder/Chain, Two-Person Exhibition (with Emma Safir), Hesse Flatow, New York, NY

2025

Through Fragility, Two-person exhibition (with Kai Oh), curated by Junghyun Kim, Baxter St at CCNY, New York, NY

Parabolic Traces, Solo exhibition, Episode Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2024

Something Between Air and Light, Two-person exhibition, TCNJ Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

Lucent Refractions, Two-Person Exhibition, Putty’s Coronation, Brooklyn, NY

2023

liquid lines: Alice C. Cole ’42 Studio Project Grant Recipient Exhibition, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA


Select Exhibition

2026

Bridge Two, Nine, New York, NY

Retold, Pace University Art Gallery, New York, NY

Forms of Connection, The Seventh AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY

2024

Cosmic Connections, Red Dot Gallery at Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN

Emerge, Bo Concept, Boston, MA

Byrdcliffe Reflections, Kleir/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY

Mirror, Portal, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2023

Emerging Artist Award Recipient Exhibition, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA

Embodied Futures and Ecology of Care, BioBAT Artspace, Brooklyn, NY

Shadow-work, Main Gallery, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

Contemporary Glass Sculpture, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

2022

You Are on Mute, School of the Museum of Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, MA

2021

Solidarity and Solitude, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

Cambridge Art Association Emerging Artists Exhibition, Juried by Erika b Hess, Kathryn Schulz Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2020

What’s Next: Art for Tomorrow, Media Art Gallery, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA

AREA CODE Art Fair, online solo presentation in the Main Section curated by Octavio Zaya

Distant Future, curated by Jova Lynn, Gallery II, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2019

Feel Me, Collar Works, Troy, NY

Chautauqua School of Art Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY


Select Honors and Awards

2026

Part-Time Faculty Professional Development Fund, The New School, New York, NY

The Studios at Corning Scholarship, Corning Museum, Corning, NY

2025

The Café Royal Foundation Grant (Visual Art), New York, NY

Art Alliance of Contemporary Glass Visionary Scholarship, Corning Museum, Corning, NY

2024

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

2023

The Emerging Artist Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA

Mass Cultural Council Grant, Boston, MA

2022-2023

Alice C. Cole ’42 Studio Project Grant, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2022/2021/2019

Graduate Student Research Competition Grant, Tufts University, Boston, MA

2021

Art Department Mary Clothier Slade Graduate Fellowship, Wellesley College, MA

Horton-Hallowell Wellesley College Graduate Fellowship, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2021/2019

Dean’s Research Award, SMFA at Tufts University, Boston, MA

2019-2021

Merit Scholarship, SMFA at Tufts University, Boston, MA


Residencies, Fellowships and Scholarship Workshops

2026

Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Residency, Johnson, VT

2026/2025

Scholarship Workshop, The Studio at Corning Museum, Corning, NY

2024

LMCC Arts Center Residency, Governor’s Island, NY

Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN

The Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship, The Bronx, NY

2023

I-Park General Artist Residency Program, East Haddam, CT

NARS Foundation Artist Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY

AiR Byrdcliffe Communal Residency, Woodstock, NY

Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program, North Adams, MA

2022-2023

Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship for Senior Thesis course, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA

2022

KultturiKauppila Art Center Residency Program, Ii, Finland

The Pilchuck Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

2021

Anderson Ranch Arts Center Artists-In-Residence Program, Snowmass Village, CO

ChaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY

Scholarship Workshop, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2019

Chautauqua School of Art Residency (Full Scholarship), Chautauqua, NY

Vermont Studio Center Residency (Artist’s Grant), Johnson, VT


Select Press and Publication

2026

Luo, Laura, Face to Face: September 2026, Impulse Magazine

New Glass Review Vol. 46, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Forms of Connection: The Seventh AIM Biennial Catalog, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY

Chen, Christine, Close Enough to Touch, Close Enough to Miss, ArtEchive

정재연, 축적된 경험, 견고한 장면들, Art Critic Korea (KOR)

Weighing of the Light, Juyon Lee, Ki, Issue 4, Qui Parle, University of California, Berkeley

2025

Chung, Jaeyeon, 아트 월드: 미국 Through Fragility (KOR), November Issue No. 230, Public Art Magazine, Seoul, Korea

Through Fragility Artist Exhibition Catalog, Baxter St at CCNY, designed by kontaakt

Wang, Jiani, Grieving in Light: Exploring Distance and Remembrance Through Juyon Lee’s Glass Installations, :iidrr Magazine, New York, NY

2024-2025  

A Year-Long Artwork and Writing Collaboration, Transpacific Literary Project, The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop

2024 

Holliday, Abigail, A Look into Something Between Air and Light, The Signal, Ewing, NJ

David, Soleil, About the Art: Translation Column, Transpacific Literary Project, The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop

Gerbracht, Kerry Gaertner, Experiments with Air and Light, The Wellesley Magazine

Chen, Yindi, Two Artists Investigate Light at Putty’s Coronation, Cultbytes

2023

Wellesley Alums Bell and Lee Redifine Artistic Boundaries in ‘Liquid Lines’, Magzoid Magazine

Rebhorn, Phoebe, Morality, Flux, and Frozen Moments: “liquid lines” Exhibition in Jewett Arts Center, The Wellesley News, Wellesley, MA

Castro, Alexander, Reviews: Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Winter 2023 Issue 173, Glass Quarterly, Brooklyn, NY

2022

Ferguson, Laura, Glass Imagined through the Artist’s Eye, TuftsNow, Boston, MA

McQuaid, Cate, 6 Art-School Stars from around Boston to Watch in 2022, Boston Globe, MA

2021

Re-Emerging Together: Artists, Audience Reunites at Cambridge Art Association, Issue: July/August 2021, Artscope, Boston, MA

2020

Genis, Leia, Installation Autumn 2020, Under the Bridge, Quarterly Portable Exhibition, Atlanta, GA

2019

Gallery: ‘Feel Me’ Exhibit at Collar Works, Troy NY, Collaborative Magazine


Select Public Presentations

2026

Artist Talk, First Year Program, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Artist Talk, In Conversation: Juyon Lee and Emma Safir with Sharon Liu, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY

Artist Panel, Tender Monuments, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY

Artist Talk, The New York Arts Program, New York, NY

2025

Artist and Curator Talk, What’s In Your Album?, Baxter St at CCNY, New York City, NY

Through Fragility Video Interview, Baxter St at CCNY, New York City, NY

Artist Talk, In Conversation: Juyon Lee and Noor Chadha, Episode Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

The Bronx Museum AIM Convening, The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, NY

2024

Artist Talk, The New York Arts Program, New York, NY

Artist Talk, TCNJ Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing Township, NJ

Artist Panel, BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2023

Guest Critic Lecture, Advanced Drawing class, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Visiting Artist Lecture, Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2022

Artist Talk, KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre, Ii, Finland

2021

Visiting Artist Talk (Virtual), Senior Thesis Seminar course, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2020

Visiting Artist Talk (Virtual), Printmaking Studio course with Professor Phyllis McGibbon, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Gallery Talk (Virtual) with curator Jova Lynn, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Artist Talk (Virtual), Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA


Select Teaching Experience

2025-Pres. Part-Time Faculty, The New School at Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

2024–Pres. Visiting Lecturer, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2022–2023 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA