2012
9: ISEA2012:
Machine Wilderness - Art which explores the intersections
of Nature & Technology. Open Studio featuring our high
desert Permaculture/Aquaponics installation as well as the
paintings that have grown from the process of building it.
Also on view will be a current exploration of the environmental
impacts of Plastic.
6-7: Guatemala: Mayan Women
in the New Year - Dairy
Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO
2-3: Miniatures - Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos
2011
11: Man as Object, Reversing the Gaze - SOMArts
Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco
from November 4 – 26, 2011. Reverse the Gaze Catalog
of the exhibition available.
11.2: Preview of Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze,
SF Weekly
11.4: Man as Object questions perceptions of male beauty,
The Good Men Project
10.28: Man as Object pushes our taken for granted ways
of seeing, Ms. Magazine
9: Taos Fall Arts Festival - Taos Convention Center,
Taos NM
8-9: Nature: Working! - 910Arts,
910 Santa Fe Dr, Denver. An intro to the patterns of sustainable
systems with artistic works in all media. Artists and non-artists
collaborate on ways to express the ideology of permaculture.
Opening reception: Friday, 08/05/2011 - 6-9pm - REAP
8-9: Rhode Island School of Design New Mexico Alumni
show - Scripps Fine Art: 821 Canyon Road, Santa Fe NM.
Opening reception August 19th, 5-7pm - Confined
Shrine
08/13 - 4-6pm - Canning Exchange and Tastings Salon
- Interactive salon with artist Lee Lee to learn, taste and
exchange recipes, while exploring global to local foods
7: Art & Social Justice - Conference
hosted by the Women's Caucus for the Arts - Regional
Arts Commission, Saint Louis MO
Panel discussion on Genocide
and Visual Representation with Naomi Natale of One
Million Bones. I focused on presenting portraits of resilience
as a way to engage our community to consider one of the most
challenging issues of our time.
7: Urban Art - Curated by Michelle Yamamoto - Columbia
Arts Center, Hood River OR. Refinery
- ICBM silo
7: Denver County Fair - National Western Complex - Intha
Market
6-7: Local Color: Voices from the Rio Grande - Gallery
on the Green, Taos Country Club, NM. Opening
reception: June 17, 5-7pm - Birds
-
New Mexico hosts one of the highest concentrations of
breeding birds in North America, according to the Nature Conservancy.
This series is based on local birds who live or migrate through
Northern New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley. The backgrounds
of the paintings, while organically textured, are whited out
to represent the constant environmental threats we face here
in the high desert.
5.11: The
Tales of Thatcher Gray: Metropolis
Metropolis is a book of words for children. The words
were chosen to reflect the essence of Burning Man. Following
Thatcher Gray on his first visit to Black Rock City, the illustrations
manifest the event from the perspective of a two year old.
He immediately embraced the participatory nature of the community
and was delighted to explore the highly interactive art. In
the way that children his age are encouraged learn through
play, Thatcher Gray seemed to pick up on the fact that the
artists and intellectuals who contribute most to the community
often present experiments in which they are furthering their
own education through play. For more information on Burning
Man at BurningMan.com
- Learn more about Thatcher Gray's specific experience on
his blog, TalesOfThatcherGray.com
5: N.A.W.A members exhibition - Sylvia Wald & Po Kim
Gallery - 417 Lafayette Street, New York NY 10003. Catalogue
of the exhibition is available.
5: A 150,000-Pound Hand-Me-Down. Yay? by Neil Genzlinger,
Metropolitan Section of the New York Times
4-5: Art from Detritus - Williamsburgh
Art & Historical Center (WAH), 135 Broadway, Brooklyn
NY 11211 - Opening Reception April 23rd, 4-6pm - Turtles
Swimming in a Plastic Ocean
4.11:
The Plastic Flow: From Waste to Waves - Feature
written by Camilla Thiele, The United Nations Environment
Programme - Turtles
Swimming in a Plastic Ocean
1-3: An Exchange with Sol Lewitt - Curated by Regine
Basha in collaboration with Mass MoCA - Cabinet Magazine
Exhibition Space, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn NY. Catalogue
available
2010
11: Hundreds Fill Santa Fe Riverbed To Bring Attention
To Climate Change - Article written by Jessica Dyer,
Albuquerque Journal
11: Environmental Photography Exhibition at the Colorado
Environmental Film Festival, American Mountaineering
Center, 710 10th Street, Golden CO
10: Bioneers Conference - Bee included
in the Pollinators installation by WEAD (Women Environmental
Artists Directory) - San Rafael, CA
9: Taos Fall Arts Festival - Convention Center,
Taos NM. Best Mixed Media Award for When
offerings lay in the mud, the Laundry is taken out,
India
9: Participation in the Burning Man Festival
7-8: Guatemala - Coinciding
with the Bienniel of the Americas - Gallery
420, Denver CO
5.7-30: Art & Agriculture - The Columbia
Arts Center, Hood River OR - Rain
-
4.10-5.23: Texas National 2010 - Invited
by Judy Pfaff
The Cole Art Center 329 East Main Street,
Nacogdoches, TX - Bleed
-
4.29: Inspired Art - Denver artists create one of a kind
pieces inspired by Denver Public School students - Benefitting
think
360 Arts
Space
Gallery - 765 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
3.10-27: Security - An exhibition of artwork
that investigates issues of safety & community well-being.
Vrnda: mother
of a combat medic stationed in Iraq
Curated by Stephanie Ellis & Serena Wellen
ROOT DIVISION
- 3175 17th Street - San Francisco, CA 94110
2.20-3.31: Miniatures Show at the Millicent Rogers
Museum, Taos NM
Flow - Early Morning Ritual
along the Sacred Ganga - Varanasi, India
3: Anything Goes with the Womens Caucus for Art
at the Bemis Library - 6014 S. Datura, Littleton
CO
The Sketchbook Project - Art House traveling Library
2.19-21: 303Grand, Brooklyn NY
4.8-11: Art & Shelter Gallery, Los Angeles CA
4.16-18: Soulard Art Market, Saint Louis MO
5.7-9: Home Gallery, Chicago, IL
2-12: What is Sacred? - Installation of paintings
at the Taos Town Hall - Ghat
- The Tug of Icons - Ta
Prohm - Inle Shrine
Spring: Publication in Art Alive: A Fresh Approach to
the Basics - Based on the teachings of Sally Bartalot
2009
11-12: Travel to Guatemala
10: Reap: The Environmental
Unsustainability of the American Food Machine
- Solo exhibit at C
Emerson Fine Arts, St Petersburg, FL
10: Bitter
but beautiful Harvest - Lee Lee's stark style captures anger
and elegance among environmental degradation. by Lennie
Bennett, St Petersburg Times
Fall 2009: Publication of Preservatives in Tampa
Review 37
9.09: For Peace and Development: Disarm Now! - United
Nations NGO Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
8: The Garden Show - With the Womens Caucus
for Art - Gallery 420 - 420 Downing Street, Denver
7-12: Looking for Loci - Denver
Community Museum & The
San Francisco Mobile Museum - Traveling Exhibition
5-7: Extinction - Denver Botanic Gardens
- Swallow
5: Images included in TransWild Alliance's Habitat &
Highways campaign. The
TransWild Alliance is a coalition of conservation advocacy
organizations dedicated to reducing the impacts of highways
on wildlife and natural resources.
1: Publication in Vol. 25, no. 1, Winter 2009 issue of CALYX,
A Journal of Art & Litterature by Women - Collapsed
Home in Vares, Bosnia - Confined
Shrine, Myanmar - Angkor
Shrine, Cambodia
2008
12: Sacred - Solo exhibit at the
DAC - 1301 Glenarm, Denver
11: Art for Ethiopia - supporting Ethiopian Orphan
Relief - Flash Gallery, Denver
10: Environmental
Horror - at Nova 535, St. Petersburg, FL - Roadkill
photographs
9: The
Human Condition - C Emerson Fine
Arts, St Petersburg FL
Portraits of Vrnda, mother
of a Combat Medic stationed in Iraq and Nga,
from Vietnam.
6-7: Self Defined - Art of the Self Portrait
- Flash Gallery, Belmar CO - Utero
6: Collaboration with The Denver Foundation:
Memorial Installation in the Parr - Widener Home, Denver
6: The Cradle
Project - Albequerque, NM
6: 'Cradle' Hopes to Nurture Africa - Albuquerque
Journal
5: The Mask Project - Denver, CO
4.8.8: Eight artists offer 'React,' an eclectic show
at C. Emerson Fine Arts, by Lennie Bennett, St
Petersberg Times
From the Review: "Lee
Lee was born in Colorado and still lives there,
but she has a broad world view shaped by her travels. Works
from several series created after visits to Cuba, Myanmar
(also known as Burma) and India, for example, address social
issues she encountered in each country. Yet they are more
observations of conditions than politically loaded statements.
The "Torched Angels" series came from a visit to
Havana graveyards. She photographed angel statues and transformed
them into dense mixed media pieces on paper. A partial meltdown
by a blowtorch renders them battered but still intact, like
so much of the country in which the statues reside. A single,
new work shows her drafting skill: a drawing of a woman Lee
met in Bosnia whose son is a combat medic. The mother is surrounded
by scorched paper (the artist likes singeing her surfaces
a lot) and fabric fragments that give her the appearance of
being in the middle of an exploding bomb. Her expression remains
impassive; the violence is a future fear playing out in her
mind. Gallery owner Lori Johns says that this is the first
in a new series Lee will be showing later in the year."
4.2.8: Art:React, by Megan Voeller, Creative Loafing,
Tampa FL
4: React - C Emerson Fine
Arts, St Petersburg FL
ritual - confined
shrine - torched angels
3: Nomad
- exhibition of internationally based photographs, coinciding
with the Center for Photographic Education Conference and
the Denver Month of Photography. Gallery 420,
Denver
2: Awarded a residency at the Ragdale Foundation,
Chicago. Development of small mixed media works on paper depicting
the confined shrines of Myanmar.
1: Fellowship received for a month-long residency at the
Vermont Studio Center. Development of watermedia
paintings on scrap wood exploring the effects of the war on
three generations of Bosnian women.
2007
11. 22. 07: Art Questions if Spirit Matters, by
Susan King St. Petersburg Times
10.31.07: Living & Worshipping in a Material World,
by Megan Voeller Creative Loafing
11: Spirituality
& Materialism
- C. Emerson Fine Arts, St Petersburg FL
11: Fra Angelico Celebration of the Devine - Donald
Sewell Auditorium, Denver CO
10: Myanmar - Five Magazine
10: Building Bridges Between People & Places,
photography exhibition with the Mizel Museum,
Denver CO
8: Participation in the Burning Man Festival
7: Cultivating Compassion - Site specific installation
at the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International
Association of Genocide Scholars in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, themed Responding to
Genocide Before It's Too Late: Genocide Studies and Prevention
- Travel through Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia
6: Weave
- Weilworks, 3611 Chestnut Place,
Denver CO
China
- South Carolina
- Burma
5-6: Residency at the Lazy Shamrock Ranch
in Colorado
view spring aspen paintings
1-4: 10 "Glocal"
Artists Interpret Genocide & The Dead Weight of Complacency
- Curated and exhibited Cambodian
work regarding genocide at the Mizel Museum,
Denver.
05.04: Sudan's faces of suffering, by Erika Gonzalez
- The Rocky Mountain News
04: On the Subject of Genocide, by Bonnie Ganglehoff
- SouthwestArt Magazine
04: Reflections of Reality, by Julie Dugdale -
5280 Magazine
2: The
Human Element - An Interview with Lee Lee, by Ian
MacKenzie of Brave New Traveler
28.01 - Art
exhibit a testament to triumphs of survivors,
by Cindy Rodriguez - Denver Post
1-3: Colleagues - Group show at
Weilworks, 3611 Chestnut Place, Denver. Paintings
of Keralan Dancers from India
10.01 - Eyewitness Reports:
The message is in the medium at the Mizel Museum's new show,
by Susan Froyd - Westword
27.01: EnFuse Magazine: 6 years, no
accidents, Oriental Theater, Saturday January 27th.
2006
12: Wee - small photography works
at Flash Gallery, Belmar CO
Exhibited Empty Vessel series
12: Paintings included in the winter edition of twenty3
magazine
10: Arts at Altitude - group show
at Kitchens'Ink, 757 Santa Fe, Denver.
8-1.7: Best of Colorado Artists Exhibition;
Denver International Airport.
8-9: Invitational - Flash Gallery; 445 S.
Saulsbury, Belmar.
8: Participation in the Burning Man Festival
8: Flow - Kitchens'Ink; opening
first Friday, 757 Santa Fe, Denver.
6: International Day of Torture: Installation with the clients
of the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center at
The Mercury, Denver CO
Exhibited collaboration with survivors of torture &
war trauma who are seeking asylum in Denver
6: Ritual - Manifestations of India
& Burma. HMK Design, Denver.
6: 17th Annual Art Against AIDS benefiting
the Colorado AIDS Project. Curated by Julie Fryberger (Consultant),
Cydney Payton (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver) and Katharine
Smith-Warren (Independant curator)
8.5: The Dead Weight of Complacency
- Inaugural Educational Exhibition of the Colorado Coalition
for Genocide Awareness and Action during their conference
at the Adams Mark Hotel on May 8, Denver. Book publication
by the Mizel Museum.
5: DOG - Saks Gallery, Cherry Creek.
4-5: The Making of Dust
invitational at Weilworks; 3611 Chestnut
Place, Denver CO.
04.05: Poetry
and art speak to each other, by Kyle MacMillan covering
"The Making of Dust" invitational at Weilworks.
4: Lecture given at the University of Colorado,
Boulder regarding how my work addresses racial issues &
multiculturalism.
4: The Mask Project - for Hospice, Denver.
1: Publication of Cambodian works in CALYX
- A Journal of Art & Literature by Women.
2005
11-1.6: Journey through India,
Myanmar
& Viet Nam.
12.05: 2 drawings featured as part of Laurel Quint's interior
design in 5280 magazine.
9: Joined the board of Working With Artists,
Denver
8-10: Found Objects Colorado: Group Show;
"strange", "controversial", "scary",
"confusing", "dark", "mysterious",
"confrontational", "offensive", or otherwise
"odd" in terms of its subject matter, content, and/or
medium. 1401 Wewatta St. #106, Denver CO
9: Weilworks: 2 woman show, 3611 Chestnut
Place, Denver CO. Exhibited Ta
Prohm series with Chinatown
Markets
8: Participation in the Burning Man Festival
8: Brand
- to support the Volunteers for Outdoor
Colorado, Dos Chappell Bath House in Washington Park,
Denver CO
8: Red - Kitchens'ink,
757 Santa Fe, Denver CO.
7-8: Retrospect - Bas Bleu, 401 Pine St,
Fort Collins CO.
5: Creative Soup 'Zine - 2 images of Cuban
Angels included in the premier issue of the
fluxus based magazine.
4-5: Art from Detritus Synagogue
for the Arts, 49 white St, New York NY. Coverage in the Downtown
Express: "The Art of Recycled Trash: Appealing
pieces with a political point" by Tequila Minsky.
4: Flights of Fancy included in the Off
Limits section of Westword, regarding
our Origami Crane Flash Mob organized by the Institute
of Sociometry.
4: A d'Vine Affair of Art & Wine
- Walnut Foundry, Denver. Benefiting Health S.E.T.
3: Study of silkscreening under Mark Friday at the Art
Students League of Denver.
2: HeartArt to support Project
Angel Heart, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Denver CO
2004
12: Group show to support UNICEF ground
work in Rwanda, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities,
CO
10-11: Travel to China
including a visit to Tibet.
11: Denver and Africa Working Against AIDS:
Raising funds and awareness for their work in Africa. Group
show at the Museum of Natural History, Denver
CO
10: In support of the Leslie Brath Breast Cancer
Fund, Group show at Strings, Denver
CO
10: Garden fete sends summer on its way - by Suzanne
Brown in the The Denver Post.
9: Lecture given about the international nature of my work
during the SEG seminar in Denver.
8: Participation in the Burning Man Festival
6: New work shown with the release of Mary Gerwin's premier
cd, "the Shores of Les Cheneaux" - Gallery
420 , Denver CO
1: Painting chosen for the National Breast Cancer
Coalition's next step in raising funds and awareness for their
grassroots advocacy. National kickoff for the new
greeting card held at 420 Downing Street, Denver with a group
of local artists exhibiting for the cause. Live studio
interviews on ABC and CBS newscasts.
2003
12: Featured artist in Enfuse Magazine
12: Colorado Art Expo, Colorado Convention
Center, Denver
11: Hidden in Plain View, A Secret
Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad" book signing
with Jacqueline Tobin, and Quilt exhibition at the Grace
Stiles African American Heritage Center, Denver CO.
11: Showcase: American ingenuity ties pieces of history
- by Betsy Lehndorff in the Rocky Mountain News.
8: Participation in the Burning Man Festival
05: Garden Wetting - Gallery 420,
which included the unveiling of pregnancy :: Kim &
Jack, Denver CO
04: From Denver to Africa and Back...A Plea for Understanding
- by Patterson Benero, In the Black Magazine.
02: Spark Selects invitational
at Spark Gallery, Denver CO
01-02: Visiting Artist for a six week seminar at La
Academia, Denver CO
01-02: Hawai'i - oils at St Marks,
Denver CO
2002
11: Final Breath: A Love Poem -
poetry reading, book signing and exhibit to support Kenyan
families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. A Voices production
with Rebecca Lee and Katy Tartakoff. Gallery 420,
Denver CO.
02-08: Study of Lithography under James Koga, and Japanese
woodblock printing under Ryan Higa, at the Honolulu
Academy of the Arts, HI. Member of the Honolulu
Printmakers.
01-03: Corporate Collections 2002
- Republic Plaza, Denver CO
01-02: Umbered - in support of
the Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado. Dos
Chappell Bath House, Denver CO
2001
07-08: Pieta
- Angels with fire from Havana's graveyard - St
Mark's, Denver CO
06-08: Visiting Artist in the metal shop at the Spot,
Denver CO
03: Traveled to Bolivia
2000
11: Travel to Cuba
09-10: Interpretations of a War-Torn Country
- by Jennie Shortridge, FiberArts The Magazine of Textiles
covers the Metropolitan Center exhibit "9"
in 12.99
06: A Humanitarian
Journey - in support of PeaceTrees
Vietnam. Landmines awareness exhibit at the Bell
Harbor Conference Center in Seattle.
also shown in September at a benefit concert with the Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band on Bainbridge Island, WA
01-02: Lazy Shamrock Ranch - in
support of the Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, landscapes
inspired by the Blue river valley. Dos Chappell Bath House
in Washington Park, Denver, CO
06-08 2000 & 2001: Nautilus Presents
- Crescent Pond Gallery, Block Island, RI
1999
12: 9 - Site specific installation
built from aspects of VietNam's culture at the Metropolitan
Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
12: American Artist Lee Lee celebrates VietNam's
circle of life - Viet Nam News The National
English Daily - , VNS.
Fall: Kitchen Duty - Colorado Home & Lifestyles
Magazine, by David
Wallace features Lee Lee's painted cabinets in the Leonard
family home, Denver CO
05: Research trip to Viet Nam to collect
images and materials for December's exhibit.
1998
10: 3 woman show of paintings at James Walker,
Denver CO
08: Residency at Peche Farguet in the Lot
Valley, France.
07: Women of Ancient Greece - an
exploration of classical figures. Hung during the Cherry Creek
Arts Festival at Elizabeth Schlosser Fine Art,
Denver CO
06: Scenes from a Studio - in collaboration with
the Alternative Arts Alliance, studio tour and show at the
Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre, Denver CO
04: Women in the Visual Arts -
international exhibition of women artists at the Erector Square
Gallery, New Haven, CT
04: Works on Paper '98 - San Jacinto
College South, Houston TX
04: 16th Annual Women's National Exhibition
- Art Center of the Ozarks, AR
04: Featured at the Tattered Cover's Fourth Story,
Denver CO
03: The Faces of Woman - National
exhibition sponsored by the Las Vegas Arts Council, NM
02: National exhibition at St John's University,
Jamaica NY
1997
10: Exhibited and received merit award at
the Hoyt National Art Show, PA
09: Exploration of Greek Islands to research
images for the Women of Ancient Greece show, 7.98
09: 32nd Annual Open Exhibition at the San Bernandino
County Museum, CA
01-06: Independent painting in France.
1996
08.93 - 05.96: Awarded a BFA from the Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence RI
03: Group show at the Woods Gerry Gallery,
Providence RI
01: Travel to Belize & Honduras
05.95 - 07.96: Painted and restored antique furniture at
Leonard's Antiques, Taunton MA
1995
08: These Members of my Family
- paintings interspersed with a collection of drawings by
the homeless population of Providence. Exhibited both at Brown
University in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center &
in the Central Congregational Church, Providence.
07: Making the Art of the Real - by Gina Macris,
Providence Journal Bulletin, describes the drawing
program maintained at Traveler's Aid in Providence RI
01.94 - 07.95: Organized and maintained a drawing program
with the homeless population who passed through the Traveler's
Aid Society of Rhode Island.
02: Painterly Prints of Mexico
- Group show at the Instituto Allende, Guanajuato Mexico.
01-02: Studied monoprint and etching processes at the Instituto
Allende, Mexico.
pre 1994
07-08.94: Independent study of renaissance art throughout
northern Italy.
06-08.93: Exploration of southern
and eastern Africa which included constructing
a library for the school in Loitokitok Kenya, and climbing
Kilimanjaro with Outward Bound.
09.92- 05.93: Liberal arts study at the University
of Colorado.
10.92- 04.93: Received scholarship for training the next
Amigos volunteers for community development work in Central
and South America. Volunteer activities included work with
Habitat for Humanity and the Gathering
Place, a day shelter for homeless and battered women
in Denver, CO
07-08.92: Worked as a health volunteer teaching community
sanitation to a rural farming community in the northeastern
desert of Brazil with Amigos de las Americas.
06-08.90: "Saigon, a Guidebook"
- internship with the Vietnamerican Trading Company, writing
and photographing for the first publication of the guide,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
12.87: A visit to Morrocco plants a seed
of desire to work with diverse populations around the world.
6.75: Born in Denver, CO.
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