Lee Wen

Lee Wen was Singaporean multimedia artist and a pioneer among a generation who defined and shaped performance art in Asia. Together with his peers, Lee shifted the foundations of academic art towards a more socially engaged practice that centred more ephemeral, time-based, and process-focused methods. Wen’s work was strongly motivated by social investigations as well as inner psychological directions using art to interrogate stereotypical perceptions of culture and society. Lee often worked collaboratively; in 1989 he joined The Artists Village (TAV) founded by Tang Da Wu, and was a part of the collective Black Market International for a number of years. He co-founded Future of Imagination Festival in 2003 and his artist-run space Independant Archive in 2012. Formerly named the Independent Archive & Resource Center, the institution consists of a reference library and a collection of archival material pertaining to art in Singapore and the neighbouring regions. Lee studied at City of London Polytechnic from 1990 to 1992, and finished his Master of Fine Arts at LASALLE in 2006. In 2005, he received the Cultural Medallion.

Participation

2009