Lisa Chang Lee 李昶

Lives and works in London and Beijing

Associate Lecturer, MA Photography, Royal College of Art

Visiting Lecturer, MA Art and Science, Central Saint Martins School of Art, UAL

Panel curator of International Printmaking Triennial of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 

Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art (UK), Sichuan Fine Art Institute (China)

Academic Director,  Infinite Duplication- International Lecture Series at Sichuan Fine Art Institute (China)

Education 

2012-2014 Royal College of Art (UK), MA

2006-2010 Central Academy of Fine Art (China), BA

2002-2006 Fine Art School Affiliated to Central Academy of Fine Art (China)

Selected Solo Exhibitions & Events:

2023- Wind Dwellers, Small Gallery, London, UK

2022- HZ-0, Lake at Enclave Projects, London, UK

2021-22 Present Absence, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

2021- Symphony Zero, Sanmei Gallery, London. UK

2020- Dreamers Awake (online), Ginkgo Space, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo

2019- Serenade of the Woods-Live Performance and Screening, The Rattles Collective, London, UK

The End and the Beginning, In-Definite Scenario Project Space, Beijing, China 

2017-  Indeterminate Loop, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

2015- Micro Eruption, project show, Grafikverkstan Godsmagasinet, Uttersberg, Sweden

 

Selected Group exhibitions:

2023- Thousand Silicon Eyes, Power Station of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China.

Beyond Lenses: Two Decades of Visual Dialogue, Hangzhou, China

Garden of the Souls, Hypha Studios Stratford, London.

Us Amid Nature and After Nature, Art Museum of Canton Art Academy

Atlas of Affinities: Vol.2, Scores for Movement, Hua International, Berlin, Germany

2022- Fellows, SNAP Art Centre, Shanghai, China

2021- Interdependency, Chengdu Biennale, Art Museum of Chengdu University, China

Chengdu Biennale, Art Museum of Chengdu University, China

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

ImPressions Printmaking Biennale, Galway International Art Festival, Galway, Ireland

Time and Space, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

2020- Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

2019- Latent Spectators, UNart Centre, Shanghai, China

GG Print Studio 10 year Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Astely, Uttersberg, Sweden

Collective City, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, South Korea

”Evolutionary Tradition“ Asian Contemporary Printmaking, Sichuan Art Institute, Chongqing, China

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

The Goat's Song, The Merchants x QI MU Space, Beijing, China 

Practice on paper, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

Print REbels: Haden, Palmer, Whistler and the origins of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Fitzwilliam Museum,  UK

2018- Visions Moving Image Biennale, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK

Unstable Landscape. M100 Art Center, Santiago, Chile

Flâneur’s Square, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Aesthetica Art Prize 2018. York Art Gallery, York, UK

Print Rebells, Bankside Gallery, London, UK

Borderless, Polish Art Institute, Budapest, Hungary

2017- Ideals On The Move, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China

The Masters, Bankside Gallery, London, UK

The Staged Club, Hongkun Art Museum, Beijing, China

London Original Print Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London

2016- I can’t do more than I do, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

RE Original Print, Bankside Gallery, London

The Masters, Bankside Gallery, London, UK

A Lonely Impulse of Delight, Irish Embassy, Beijing, China (co-curated)

National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK

Neo-Print Prize, Bolton, UK

Far and Few Between , No Format Gallery, London, UK (curated)

2015- Repeat / Spiral associated with Impact 9 International Printmaking Conference, Renke Gallery, Hangzhou, China (curated)

VOID: there’s nothing more left, but a little trace from human beings, Ginkgo Space, Beijing, China

RCA secret 2015, Dyson Gallery, London, UK

2014- Show 2014, Royal College of Art MA Degree Show, London,UK

Wild at Heart and Weird on Top, group exhibition, CGP Gallery, London, UK

RCA Secret 2014, Royal College of Art Dyson Gallery, London,UK

2013- Pushing Print 2013 Margate Gallery, Margate, England, UK

Thought Machine, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

RCA Work in Progress Show, London, Royal College of Art, England, UK

In-visible, Southwark Park Gallery, London, England, UK

Prizes & Awards

Winner of Printmaking Today Prize, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2022

Arts Council England Grant, 2021

Shortlist of Jerwood/ Printmaking Today Prize, 2020

Art Power China 100 Nominee, 2019

Winner of Artist Film Runner-up Prize (special mention), Collective City- Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, 2019

Awards of Art China Nominee, 2018  

Winner of Vivien Leigh Bequest Purchase Prize from the Ashmolean Museum, 2018

Shortlist of Aesthetica Art Prize 2018 

Shortlist of Dentons Art Prize, 2017

Winner of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Prize 2016

Shortlist of Riverlight Award (in association with Future city, St James, and the Royal College of Art), 2014

Winner of Royal College of Art Drawing Prize, 2013

 

Curating 

2023- Beyond Lenses: Two Decades of Visual Dialogue. Parallel Institute. Hangzhou. China

2020-Current - Academic Director of Infinite Duplication- International Webinars at Sichuan Fine Art Institute

2018- Five Trillion Times- Panel curator in the 2nd International Printmaking Triennial

      Contemporary Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

2016- A Lonely Impulse of Delight, Irish Embassy, Beijing, China

2016- Far and Few Between,No Format Gallery, London, UK

2015- Repeat/ Spiral, Renke Space, Hangzhou, China

2014- “Sweden-China a meeting between Swedish and Chinese contemporary art”

Touring Exhibition , Norkopping/ Stockholm, Sweden

 

Residencies:

Cordts Art Foundation+GeKA Foundation, Germany, 2021

Galleri Astely. Uttersberg, Sweden,2019 

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, 2019

CHAO Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2018

Molten Capital, M100 Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago, Chile, 2018

East London Printmakers, London, UK, 2017

Grafikverkstan Godsmagasinet, Uttersberg, Sweden, 2015

 

Collections:

British Museum, London, UK

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Metropolitan Museum, New York, US

Xuhui Museum, Shanghai, China

Joan Flasch Collection, Chicago, US

School of Art and Humanity, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

Gallery Astely, Uttersberg, Sweden

 

Lectures &Talks:

Camberwell School of Art. 2023

Royal College of Art. 2023

Bloomsburg Gallery, 2023

Oxford Brooks University, 2022

Royal College of Art, 2021

Sichuan Fine Art Institute, 2020

Royal College of Art, 2018

University of Brighton, 2014

Polymouth College of Art, 2014