Performance Site :Myanmar 05
Borders : withIn withOut
29 Jan. 2005

Lee Wen (Singapore)
"almost untitled: over my dead body"








Lee Wen (Singapore)
"almost untitled: over my dead body"


LEE Wen
Born in Singapore, 1957

Education:
1992 City of London Polytechnic, London, UK
1990 LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE

Solo Exhibitions:
2004 Unframed 7, P-10, SINGAPORE
2003 Stramge Fruit, The Substation, SINGAPORE
2002 Everybody Should Be Happy, Utterly Art, SINGAPORE
1996 Hand-Made Tales, The Black Box, Theatre Works, SINGAPORE
1995 Neo-Baba, VA-nishiogi Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
1993 Journey of a yellow man no.3: DESIRE, The Substation, SINGAPORE

Selected Exhibitions:
2005
Performance Site, Myanmar 05, Borders:withIn withOut, NICA,Yangon, MYANMAR
National Review of Live Art, 2005 , Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Crossing Time International, Dartington College of Arts, Totnes,Devon, ENGLAND
3 Encuentro Internacional de Performance, Institut Valencia DfArt Modern (IVAM), Valencia, SPAIN
2004
130 Bank Gallery, 10th Anniversary Commemoration Exhibition, Kitakyushu, JAPAN
National Review of Live Art, 2004, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Perform:State:Interrogate: Performance Studies international Conference (PSi#10), The Substation, SINGAPORE
2nd DaDao Live Art Festival, Beijing, CHINA
Giving Water An Image, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, VIETNAM
Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale 2004, Pusan, S. KOREA
Voice of Site, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,Tokyo, JAPAN
Sustainable, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo,JAPAN
The Future of Imagination 2, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
2003
Aciones en Ruta, Mexico City and Encuentro Intl de Performance Yucatan, Merrida, MEXICO
The Future of Imagination, The Substation, Singapore
2002
4th Asiatopia, Bangkok THAILAND
gAlter-Native Dialoguesh, Video/ Performance collaboration with James Luna, Tokyo, JAPAN
Recontre Intl dfart performance de Quebec 2002, LELIEU, Quebec,CANADA
2001
EXIT International Festival for Unusual Live Performances, Cable Factory, Helsinki, FINLAND
2nd Open Art Festival, Pengshan, Leshan and Chengdu, Sichuan, CHINA
The ertha International Artists Workshop - 2001, Lunaganga, SRI LANKA
2000
Critical Response, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Expo 2000, Performance with Black Market International, Hanover,GERMANY
TransEuropa -Theatre Festival 2000, Hildesheim, GERMANY
1999
Rand, Festival der Regionen, Zuckerfabrik Enns, AUSTRIA
The Third Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Nokia Singapore Art 1999, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
1998
Construction in Process VI - The Bridge, The Artists Museum, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Sub-Fiction, Werkleitz Biennale 1998, Tornitz & Werkleitz,GERMANY
g3rd Asian Performance Art Seriesh,Tokyo,JAPAN
Asiatopia, Bangkok, THAILAND
ZUG. Flexible:X, Performance Art Operation Work, Dresden, GERMANY
1997
Simposio International De Escultura Mexico-Japon, Tuxtla Guttierez, Chiapas, MEXICO
Sexta Bienal de La Habana, Havana, CUBA
SeptFest Art Conference-Multi-culturalism, The Substation, SINGAPORE
1996
Recontre International dfart Performance Et Multi-media 1996, Quebec, CANADA
Between the Visible and Invisible, Lahore International Arts Workshop, PAKISTAN
1995
2nd Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo & Nagano, JAPAN
Castle of Imagination, 3rd International Artists Meeting, Bytow, POLAND
Kwang Ju Biennale,, Kwang Ju, KOREA
MA: East West Study Project, Dusseldorf & Darmstadt, GERMANY
Chiang Mai Social Installation, Chiang Mai, THAILAND
1994
4th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka and Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN
1993
5th Fukui International Video Biennale,Tawara,Fukui City, JAPAN
Sense Yellow, Concrete House, Nontburi,THAILAND
1992
International Sculpture Symposium, Gulbarga, Karnataka, INDIA
1990
C.A.R.E.: Concerned Artists for the Environment, Artist Village, Singapore Art Festival, SINGAPORE

Performances with Black Market International:
2000
Expo 2000, Performance with Black Market International, Hanover, GERMANY
TransEuropa -Theatre Festival 2000, Hildesheim, GERMANY
2002
4th Asiatopia, Bangkok,THAILAND
Recontre Intfl dfart performance de Quebec 2002, LELIEU, Quebec, CANADA
2003
Aciones en Ruta, Mexico City and Encuentro Intl de Performance Yucatan, Merrida, MEXICO
2005
National Review of Live Art,Glasgow,SCOTLAND

AWARDS:
2002 Artist in Residence, La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
1998 Artist in Residence (Asia Europe Ministerial Meeting, Cultural and Arts Program) supported by Visiting Arts, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Gasworks Studios, London, UK

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Workshops / Seminars
2005
La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
2004
Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, JAPAN
Hanoi University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, VIETNAM
University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
2003
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico
Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, JAPAN
2002 La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2001
Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, JAPAN
La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
Nanyang College of Fine Art, SINGAPORE
2000
Nanyang College of Fine Art, SINGAPORE
La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
1999
La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
1998
Norwich College of Art and Design, norwich, uk
1996
Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, JAPAN

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Chin Hock Seng (1981)
ePop dogf artist shares a dream
The Straits Times, Singapore. May 9, 1981

Lee Wen,
A Waking Dream- drawings and poetry,
Select Books, Singapore, 1981

Ng Sek Chow
Yellow reflections
The Straits Times, Singapore, July 23, 1993

Swinson, James
Lee Wen Connection / Location
Third Text/ no.45 Winter, London 1998-99 - pp.95-97

Lee Weng Choy
Artist essay on Lee Wen
The Third AsiaPacificTriennale 1999 Catalogue,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia.

Lee Weng Choy, (2000)
Just What Is it that Makes the Term Global-Local So Widely Cited, Yet So Annoying?
"Flight Patterns: picturing the Pacific Rim" catalogue
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
(A shorter version of this essay was first published in Artlink, Volume 20 Number 2, June 2000.)

Woon Tien Wei
Between Journeys: an Interview with Lee Wen
Performance Research 6(l), pp.3?7 c Taylor & Francis Ltd 2001

Barragan, Paco
The Art To Come
Subastas Siglo XXI, Madrid 2002

Oon, Clarrisa
Hello, yellow fellow
The Straits Times, Singapore, October 21, 2003

Glenis Israel
Senior Artwise 2 visual arts 11-12,
Part 3 Asian Artists ? contemporary, Chapter 14
John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd, Sydney 2004


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

Affiliation:
Honorary member of Artists Village, Singapore,
Associate artist of The Substation, Singapore
Member, Command N, Tokyo
Since 2000, participating with Black Market International, (international performance art ggrouph)
Artistic Director, gFuture of Imaginationh, International Performance Art Event, Singapore

WEBSITES:
http://www.asa.de/magazine/iss2/index.htm
http://www.apt3.net/apt3/artists/default.htm
http://www.geocities.com/dangermuseum/yellowman/cover/leewencontent1.html
http://www.werkleitz.de/events/biennale1998/text/cat/wenE.html
http://www.gasworks.org.uk/varts/lee_wen/
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0211/as.triennial.html
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/features/2004/08/224755/
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/features/2004/08/232520/


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