Lee Kangwoo was born in 1965 in Dangjin, Chungnam, South Korea. He graduated from the Department of Western Painting at Seoul National University in 1990 and completed his graduate studies at the same institution in 1993. Lee Kangwoo has held 19 solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 curated group exhibitions both domestically and internationally. Since 2003, Lee Kangwoo has been serving as a professor in the Department of Photography at Seoul University of the Arts.