Lisa Chang Lee
- Associate lecturer
- Photography MA
Lisa Chang Lee is a multimedia artist and curator.
Lisa Chang Lee is an associate lecturer at MA Photography. Lisa obtained her BA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing in 2010 before cmpleting an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art, where she graduated with distinction in 2014.
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Research interests
Navigated by cross-cultural research in relation to Asian philosophy and aesthetics, her diverse practice focuses on the correlation and interconnection between humanity and nature, the past and present. Her practice combines multiple art forms such as moving-image, photography, sound, AV installations, sensory technology and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Awards
Shortlist, Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize, 2020
Nomination, Art Power 100 China, 2019
Contemporary Art Trust Prize, 2019
Runner-up, Artist Film Prize, Seoul Biennale, 2019
Nomination, Awards of Art China, 2018
Shortlist, Aesthetica Art Prize, 2018
The Royal Society of Painter-printmaker Prize, 2016
Royal College of Art Drawing Prize, 2013
Current and recent projects
South of the Sea
2022–current
Lisa’s current research-led project is in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, where she is working with the conservation team led by Professor Samuel Turvey and Dr Heidi Ma to better understand the value of endangered indigenous culture on Hainan Island in China and their oral history on the transformation of the local environment. This knowledge is applied in knowledge and artistic production process of a multi-media installation called South of the Sea looking at alternative ways of co-existing in nature from an ecocentric perspective.
Publications, exhibitions and other outcomes
Publication
Shiyu,G and Lisa Chang, L(2022). The Algorithm of Nature in the Age of Global Health and Environmental Crisis. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Volume 9 Numbers 1+2, pp.239-247
Selected exhibitions
(2022) Present Absence, Ginkgo Space, Beijing;
(2021) Symphony Zero, San Mei Gallery, London
(2019) Serenade of the Woods, Tobacco Dock, London
(2019) The End and the Beginning, In-Definite Scenario, Beijing
(2019) Latent Spectators, UNart Centre, Shanghai, China
(2019) Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul
(2018) Visions Moving Image Biennale, Nunnery Gallery, London
(2018) Unstable Landscape, M100 Art Centre, Santiago
(2018) Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK
(2018) Flaneur’s Square, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
(2017) Indeterminate Loop, Ginkgo Space, Beijing
(2017) Ideas on the Move, Bi-City Biennale, Shenzhen, China
(2017) The Staged Club, Hong Kun Art Museum, Beijing
(2016) A Lonely Impulse of Delight, Irish Embassy, Beijing
External collaborations
(2019–current) Visiting Lecturer, Sichuan Fine Art Institute
(2015–8) Associate Curator, China Academy of Art
(2014–6) Visiting Lecturer, Central Academy of Fine Art