MiKyoung Lee has been the Director of the School of Art, Design, and Art History and a Professor of Art since 2022. She leads academic programs in Architectural Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Foundations, Studio Arts with seven concentrations, Art History, Art Education Licensure, the MFA in Studio Arts, and minors in Art, Art History, and Book Arts and Illustration. She supports nearly forty full-time and more than fifteen part-time faculty, ten staff members, over six hundred undergraduates, and a master’s program. Facilities under her leadership include Duke Hall, the Studio Center, the Memorial Hall Art Complex, the United Way building, the Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Arts, ArtWorks, and the New Image Gallery. She works closely with faculty, staff, and students to create an engaging environment focused on safety, professional development, curriculum innovation, technology integration, and partnerships at local, national, and international levels.

Beyond her leadership role, Lee is an accomplished artist, scholar, and designer with more than twenty-five years of experience in higher education. She has presented nineteen solo exhibitions, with work shown at the Arizona Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Reading Public Museum, SOFA in New York and Chicago, Busan Metropolitan Museum, La Manufacture Museum in France, Poikilo Museums in Finland, the National Art Museum of China, Tsinghua Art Museum, and the Shanghai World Expo Museum. She was an editor for “Art Textile of the World: Korea, Volume I” (2005) and has contributed essays to U.S. and Korean publications. From 2005 to 2022, she served as Art Director for the International Opera Theater, premiering six operas in Italy.

Lee serves on the Board of Directors for the Surface Design Association, the Advisory Board for the Center for Emerging Artists in Philadelphia, and as a Foreign Expert at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 2022, she received a Global Scholar Fellowship from Ewha Women’s University. She holds two master’s degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art and The University of the Arts and continues to pursue interests in business and design through ongoing study and lectures.