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Kerry Ann Lee
Birth Place:Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality:New Zealander
Known For:Visual arts, design

Kerry Ann Lee is a visual artist, designer, and scholar in design at Massey University College of Creative Arts, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Practice

Kerry Ann Lee's art and design practice is rooted in her experience of being a New Zealander of Chinese descent, and frequently explores these cultural intersections. This includes topics such as Chinese settlement in the 19th century, particularly the establishment of Chinatowns[1] and Cantonese urban diaspora communities in New Zealand.[2] Lee is also known for her independent publishing work, especially zines, including Help, My Snowman’s Burning, Celebretard and Permanent Vacation.[3] Her practice frequently employs collage. Lee has undertaken international residencies in China, Taiwan, US, Mexico and Australia and exhibits regularly in New Zealand.[4] Lee's 2017 solo exhibition, Fruits in the Backwater at Pātaka Art + Museum explores notions of identity and place,[5] with juxtaposition of Chinese and New Zealand cultural signifiers a central theme. In December 2018, her installation Return to Skyland opened within the Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality exhibition at Te Papa.[6]

Lee holds a master's degree from Massey University, with a thesis on the settlement of Chinese in New Zealand, through which she "interrogates the transformation of Cantonese settlers into Chinese New Zealanders through illustration design".[7]

Career

Lee held a senior lecturer and researcher position at Otago Polytechnic School of Design and is currently a senior lecturer at Massey University College of Creative Arts.[8]

Lee has held artist-in-residence positions at island6 Art Centre, Shanghai (September 2009), and Visible City, a collaborative live art project hosted by the City of Melbourne as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (October 2010).

Lee was the creative director of the Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì (AAAH2018), a public festival and national gathering that celebrated "diverse expressions of ‘Asianness’ in Aotearoa in the Arts."[9]

Life

Lee is a third-generation Chinese New Zealander; her forebears arrived in Otago, New Zealand in the 1930s.[10] She was born in Wellington, where her family has lived since the late 1940s; her parents ran the Gold Coin Cafe at 296 Willis Street from 1978 to 1986.[11] The cafe was referenced in her installation The Unavailable Memory of Gold Coin Cafe, at Enjoy Gallery in 2013 and Pātaka Art + Museum in 2015.

Lee studied design in Wellington. She received a Master of Design (MDes) from Massey University, where her thesis project was the book Home Made: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand.[12]

Lee is a DJ under the alias Croque Madame.[13] She is also known for her interest in punk music[14] and work with self-published fanzines.[15]

Awards

Exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kerry Ann Lee profile on Whitespace Gallery. Whitespace Gallery. 2018-12-12.
  2. Web site: Where currents converge - A review of Kerry Ann Lee: Fruits in the Backwater. Weng. Amy. 2018-01-11. Hainamana. en-GB. 2018-12-13.
  3. Web site: Kerry Ann Lee. 2012-08-15. CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand. en. 2018-12-13.
  4. Web site: Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì – Kerry Ann Lee. Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì. 13 December 2018.
  5. Web site: Kerry Ann Lee – Fruits in the Backwater. 2014-08-27. Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua, New Zealand's website.
  6. Web site: Kerry Ann Lee: Return to Skyland. 2018-11-09. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ. en. 2018-12-12.
  7. Lee . Kerry . 2008 . Masters thesis . Home made : picturing Chinese settlement in New Zealand . Massey Research Online, Massey University . 10179/723 .
  8. Web site: College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington - Kerry Ann Lee. creative.massey.ac.nz. 2018-12-12.
  9. Web site: AAAH Introduction. aaah.org.nz.
  10. Web site: Lee's takeaway art brings back memories. Stuff. en. 2018-12-12.
  11. Web site: Unavailable Memory of Gold Coin Café. www.unitybooksonline.co.nz. 2018-12-12.
  12. Web site: Enter the lounge with Kerry Ann Lee. Ng. Kristen. 29 July 2014. Kiwese. en. 2018-12-13.
  13. Web site: Where Do You Go? - Kerry Ann Lee . WellingtonNZ.com. en-NZ. 2018-12-13.
  14. Web site: The Gravy - Series Three, Episode 11 Television. NZ On Screen. en. 2018-12-13.
  15. Web site: Bartley and Company Art - Kerry Ann Lee. bartleyandcompanyart.co.nz. 2018-12-13.
  16. Web site: Kerry Ann Lee - Senior Lecturer. Massey University. en. 2018-12-12.
  17. Web site: Programme (pdf) for the Unconditional(I) exhibition. www.physicsroom.org.nz. 2018-12-12.
  18. Web site: Scope (Art & Design), 5&6, 2010 /11. 13 December 2018.
  19. Web site: New Zealand artist goes green in Shanghai. 2010-06-28. The Big Idea. en. 2018-12-13.
  20. Web site: Home Made: Picturing Chinese Settlement in NZ. 2008-07-30. The Big Idea. en. 2018-12-13.

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