Kun H. Lee was born in Seoul. Korea on July 7, 1954. As the son of a bicycle manufacturer, Lee's up bringing was one of wealth and privilege. However, much to his father's dismay. Lee spent muck of his childhood fascinated with the Arts rather than the family business. In an attempt to thwart Lee's dreams of becoming an artist, his family began to pressure him to choose other interests. By his teens, Lee fled the oppression of his privileged life to study graphic design under the sympathetic guidance of a local art professor. Before Lee had finished his training, he began tutoring other students who, like himself, were in the midst of preparing for Koreas private university exams for graphic designers.

Before finishing his degree in 1980, Lee stumbled upon an opportunity to immigrate to the United States. Within a year Lee moved his wife and two small children to the States. Upon arriving to the US, Lee quickly settled his family just outside of Greenville, South Carolina where he taught private art lessons at a small local gallery. Eventually Lee opened a gallery of his own called Art and Frame, a space where he exhibited and sold his own paintings and custom frame designs.

The subject in much of lee's work is inspired by his interest in travel and nature as well as the shifts in his own impression over changing landscapes and environments. On any trip, Lee is constantly photographing to archive places and moments so that they can be revisited and eventually made into paintings that reflect his impressions and memories of that place or that moment. Along the way, Lee became naturalized as a citizen of the United States. He is happily married and currently resides Atlanta Georgia.