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