LEE Yung-Chih

Born in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Lee Yung-Chih received his master’s degree in new media art at the Taipei National University of the Arts. Growing up in the urban landscape of littered streets and factory noise, Lee’s work often involves the displacement and appropriation of scenes of daily life as aesthetic and cultural criticism, albeit as a seemingly futile political movement. His art practice also touches on the sense of place, drawing from his personal experience of growing up in an industrial area, the bodily memory of collective working in the processing plant, and the apparently irreversible status quo in Taiwan in confrontation with internationalization, modernization, and individualization. In this way, Lee’s art is nostalgic camouflage embedded in a future of desperation.

During his professional career, Lee has received the Kaohsiung Observer Award and a Merit in the New Taipei City Art Competition. His work has also been included in exhibitions across Taiwan, Singapore, and Indonesia with recent major exhibitions and events including the Biennale Jogja in Indonesia, The Secret South: From Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the fifth Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance (ADAM) at the Taipei Performing Arts Center, and the 2021 Asian Art Biennial Phantasmapolis at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Lee currently works as an artist and freelance film editor.