Medical Student
Stanford Medicine
Stanford, California
Jang Lee (he/him) is a medical student at Stanford. He is an oil painter whose work explores the sociopolitical determinants of health through narrative figuration. Drawing from his own experience as a medical student and public health advocate, he explores the stories of various medical students to portray an emerging generation of future physician-advocates. In medicine, the body is pathologized by the clinical gaze. Standing against fractured, hazy planes of color, Lee's figures offer a contrasting and expansive view of the human body as a method of storytelling and critique against the medical-industrial complex. He was awarded the Arts + Social Justice Grant from the Stanford Arts Institute in 2023 and has exhibited with Roots Division, Brea Gallery, and Good Mother Studio, among others. His work is included in the permanent collections at the ASUCLA Union, the Harvard Freshman Dean’s Office, and featured in several art and literary magazines, including the Oxford Review of Books. Lee received a Bachelors in Arts from Harvard University in 2019 and a Master in Public Health from UCLA in 2022.
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A Refractory Gaze: The Power of Figurative Painting in Medical Advocacy
Friday, October 24, 2025
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Pacific Time