LEE Wen, 李文
Born in Singapore, 1957
Education
2006 MA Fine Arts, LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
1992 City of London Polytechnic, London, UK
1990 LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
Solo Exhibitions:
2008 Anthropometry Revision, Soo Bin Art Int’l, SINGAPORE
2007 Freedom to Daydream, Mothers of Imagination, Your Mother Gallery, SINGAPORE
2004 Unframed¬7, P-10, SINGAPORE
2003 Strange Fruit, The Substation, SINGAPORE
2002 Everybody Should Be Happy, Utterly Art, SINGAPORE
1997 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:
2013 Britto International Artists Workshop, Dhaka, BANGLADESH
7th Kuala Lumpur Triennial BARRICADE , Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Cascadence / Singapore Redux, SINGAPORE
“The Realm in the Mirror, the Vision out of Image”, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, CHINA
“Gu Yu International Performance Art Festival 2013”, Xi An,Shang Nan, Beijing, CHINA
‘My Earth Staglinec 2013’ Staglinec, Koprivnica, CROATIA
‘Rethinking of Protocols-Us and/As Institutions’ curated by Biljana Ciric, Guangzhou Times Museum, Guangzhou, CHINA
“Lit Up 2013”, Aliwal Art Center, SINGAPORE
"The Artist, the Book and the Crowd", The Substation, SINGAPORE
“Singapore Biennale 2013: If The World Changed”, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
“Concept Context Contestation: art & the collective”, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, THAILAND
2012 "Wanderers 2 / Underground Site", 4th International Performance Art Festival Toyama, JAPAN
"New Strange Faces", Valentine Willie Fine Arts, SINGAPORE
“The Lecher of Art” The Substation, SINGAPORE
“14th Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival”, Bangkok, THAILAND
“The First Venice International Performance Art Week”, Venice, ITALY
2011 R.I.T.E.S. “Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak” #01/2011, The Substation, SINGAPORE
“This Is Performance Art”, Aberdeen and Glasgow, SCOTLAND
“Negotiating Home, History & Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art from S.E. Asia, 1991– 2011”, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
“Video: An Art, A History”, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
“Singapore Survey 2011: Imagine Malaysia”, Valentine Willie Fine Arts, SINGAPORE
Future of Imagination 7, Goodman Art Centre, SINGAPORE
“Currents: from Singapore in Macau”, Ox warehouse, MACAU
“Guangzhou Live”, You You Gallery, Guangzhou, CHINA
2010 National Review of Live Art 2010, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Performance Art Laboratory Project (PALA Project) 2010 /“undisclosed territory#4”,
Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, INDONESIA
Future of Imagination 6, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
9th International Performance Art, Turbine, Giswil 2010, SWITZERLAND
Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec, Quebec, CANADA
Survey from Singapore, FADO, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
4 Directions from Asia, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
"The winds project" encontro internacional da performance, Teatro TUCA, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Action Script: Symposium on Performance Art Practice and Documentation in Asia, HONG KONG
Performance Platform Lublin 2010, POLAND
BONE 13 – Festival für Aktionskunst, Berne, SWITZERLAND
2009 International Performance Show-Ceramic Passion, 5th World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, S. KOREA
Infr’Action ‘09 -Festival International d’Art Performance, Paris, FRANCE
Rasa Aksi-4 Artists From Singapore, Lublin, and, Warsaw, POLAND
Live Action Göteborg 09, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Momentum- Platform for Performance-Art, Brussels, BELGIUM
“Drawing As Form”, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, CHINA
LIVE International Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, CANADA
Performance In Frames, Singapore Management University Gallery, SINGAPORE
2008 "Small East Co-prosperity Restaurant 08", Tokyo, JAPAN
Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kết Nối : Vietnam-Singapore Performance Art Dialogue, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
Performatica’08, Four Artists From Singapore, 26cc, Rome and La Casa Verde, Foligno, ITALY
Blow!5- Performance Art Meeting between Singapore and Germany, Hildesheim & Ilsede, GERMANY
The Artists Village: 20 Years On, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
Infr’Action -Festival International d’Art Performance, Sète, FRANCE
UP-ON First International Live Art Festival, Chengdu, Sichuan, CHINA
2nd Vital Chongqing International Live Art Festival, Chongqing, Sichuan, CHINA
Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Performance Art in China & Asia, Macao Museum of Art, MACAU
Future of Imagination 5, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
Asiatopia, 10th Anniversary, Bangkok Art &Culture Centre, THAILAND
2007 National Review of Live Art 2007, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Perfurbance #3, “spiritual renewal”, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA
Là-bas-> Hyper Center in Helsinki, FINLAND
IX Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki Akcji "Interakcje 2007" Piotrkow Trybunalski; Bielsko-Biała, POLAND
Made In China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Humlebæk, DENMARK
Future of Imagination 4, 72-13, TheatreWorks, SINGAPORE
Maju Jaya – CHAOS Dab!, Jogjakarta National Museum, Jogjakarta, INDONESIA
Vital 07: essence of performance, Chinese Art Center, Manchester, ENGLAND
LONG’ACTION 07- rencontres franco-chinoises d’art performance, Sète FRANCE
2006 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2006, SINGAPORE
Satu Kali, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Future of Imagination 3, The Substation, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
TROUBLE #2, halles de schaerbeek, Brussels, BELGIUM
acción!06MAD - III Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Acción. Madrid, SPAIN
Ctrl+Alt+Del, Singapore Management University Arts Fest 2006, SINGAPORE
4th DaDao Live Art Festival, Beijing, CHINA
S+S, 1, ALL_2, Shenyang, CHINA
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, CANADA
DEFORMES, Primera Bienal de Performance, Santiago, CHILE
Birds Migration: Indonesia International Performance Art Event [IIPAE] 2006, Jakarta, INDONESIA
Episode5: 12-Hour Performance, Sound and Video Festival, SINGAPORE
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’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, SPAIN
National Review of Live Art – MIDLAND 05, Perth, AUSTRALIA
Stopover, Japan Singapore Performance Art Meeting, FronT Room Gallery, SINGAPORE
Situations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
REACH OUTLYING 2005 Tipalive Taiwan International Performance Art Festival, Taipei, TAIWAN
"UGNAYAN‘05", 4th Philippine International Performance Art Festival (PIPAF), Manila, The Philippines
Spaces and Shadows: Politics of Fun, House of World Culture, Berlin, GERMANY
Self-portrait Performativ, langaut, Golberode, Dresden, GERMANY
BLURRR 5 biennial of performance art, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, SWITZERLAND
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
Future of Imagination 2, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
2003 Aciones en Ruta, Mexico City and Encuentro Intl de Performance Yucatan, Merrida, MEXICO
Future of Imagination, The Substation, SINGAPORE
4th Asiatopia, Bangkok THAILAND
“Alter-Native Dialogues”, Video/ Performance collaboration with James Luna, Tokyo, JAPAN
Recontre Int’l d’art 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
Theertha International Artists Workshop - 2001, Lunaganga, SRI LANKA
2000 FEAST! Food In Art! Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
Critical Response, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Expo 2000, Performance with Black Market International, Hanover, GERMANY
TransEuropa -Theatre Festival 2000, Hildesheim, GERMANY
Artists Investigating Monument - AIM projects, Raffles Landing Site, Singapore.
1999 Rånd, 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
“Post-Ulu”, The Artists Village Exhibition, The Substation, SINGAPORE
1998 Construction in Process VI - The Bridge, The Artists Museum, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Sub-Fiction, Werkleitz Biennale 1998, Tornitz & Werkleitz, GERMANY
"3rd Asian Performance Art Series”, 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
2nd Asian Performance Art Series, Nagano, Tokyo, JAPAN
SeptFest Art Conference-Multi-culturalism, The Substation, SINGAPORE
Performance Art Conference5, Bangkok, Suan Pakkad Palace, Bangkok, THAILAND
Recontre International d’art Performance Et Multi-media 1996, Quebec, CANADA
Between the Visible and Invisible, Lahore International Arts Workshop, PAKISTAN
2nd Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo & Nagano, JAPAN
Castle of Imagination, 3rd International Artists Meeting, Bytow, POLAND
“International Nature Art Symposium”, Yatoo, Kong Ju, South KOREA
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
5th Fukui International Video Biennale, Tawara, Fukui City, JAPAN
1993 Sense Yellow, Concrete House, Nontburi, THAILAND
1992 International Sculpture Symposium, Gulbarga, Karnataka, INDIA
1990 TIME Show, Artists Village, Ulu Sembawang, SINGAPORE
C.A.R.E.: Concerned Artists for the Environment, Artist Village, Singapore Art Festival, SINGAPORE
1989 HAPPENINGS II, QU*ART Gallery, Hong Kong, HONG KONG
HAPPENINGS, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
The Drawing Show, Artists Village, Ulu Sembawang, 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’l d’art performance de Quebec 2002, LELIEU, Quebec, CANADA
2003 Aciones en Ruta, Mexico City and Encuentro Intl de Performance Yucatan, Merrida, MEXICO
National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Zweiten Ilseder PerformanceAbend, Gebläsehalle in Ilsede, GERMANY
13th Performance Art Conference - “The Art of Action 111”, Podewils‘schen Palais, Berlin, GERMANY
Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, SWITZERLAND
Le Theatre de L'Usine (place des Volontaires), Geneve, SWITZERLAND
2006 TROUBLE #2, halles de schaerbeek, Brussels, BELGIUM
2007 National Review of Live Art 2007, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
2010 “undisclosed territory#4”, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, INDONESIA
Future of Imagination 6, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
Performance Platform Lublin 2010, POLAND
Performance Art Season 2010, Warsaw, POLAND
Black Market in Town, Orangerie Theater im Volksgarten, Köln, GERMANY
Blow!8, Umformerstation, Ilsede, GERMANY
BONE 13 – Festival für Aktionskunst, Berne, SWITZERLAND
2011 “This Is Performance Art”, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
2013 “Gu Yu International Performance Art Festival 2013”, Xi An,Shang Nan, Beijing, CHINA
AWARDS
2013 Artist-in-Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Contemporary Art of Japan, Saitama, Japan
2008 Artist-in Residence, Red & Grey Contemporary, Chengdu, China
2005 Cultural Medallion, Singapore
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
2013 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
2007 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2006 NRLA (National Review of Live Art) International Winter School, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
Nanyang College of Fine Art, 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 Autónoma 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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Singapore Art Museum;
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan);
Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane, Australia);
Lenzi-Morisot Foundation (Singapore – France);
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Chin Hock Seng (1981)
‘Pop dog’ 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
Chandrasekaran.S., Langenbach, R. & Lee Wen (1993)
Local Performance Art, Democracy: Commentary.
Journal of the National University of Singapore Society, Singapore, National
University of Singapore Society (Vol.11 No. 2)
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 © 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
HO Tzu Nyen
“strange fruit”
Art Asia Pacific / Spring 2004 No.40
Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and Eugene Tan
Contemporary Art in Singapore
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE, Singapore 2007
Valentin Torrens, Editor
Pedagogia De La Performance, Programmas de Cursos y Talleres
Diputacion Provincial De Huesca, Barcelona, Spain, 2007
Lee Wen, Editor
Anthropometry Revision
Soo Bin Art International, Singapore, 2008
Kwok Kian Woon, Lee Wen, Co-Editors
The Artists Village: 20 Years On
Singapore Art Museum, The Artists Village, Singapore, 2009
Richard Martel
Arte en vivo y en directo
EXIT Express Magazine #47 November 2009, p16-25
Adele Tan
Art and the iterative force: Lee Wen’s untaming of Yves Klein
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, May 2010, Vol. 32, No. 2, Pages 17-23
Iola Lenzi, Tan Boon Hui, Khairuddin Hori, editors, et. all.. Negotiating Home History and Nation Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991-2011 Singapore Art Museum 2011 Christine Van Assche, Patricia Levasseur de la Motte, et, all... Video, an Art, a History 1965 - 2010 A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections Singapore Art Museum 2011
Mitsu Salmon
Lee Wen's Revolutionary Daydreams, IN TIME December 2013, newsletter, Chicago, pg.22, 23
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
AFFILIATION:
Honorary member of Artists Village, Singapore,
Black Market International, (international performance art “group”)
Artistic Director, “Future Of Imagination”, International Performance Art Event, Singapore
Guest Curator: UP-ON First International Live Art Festival, 2008 Cheng Du China.
Co-Artistic Director, “R.I.T.E.S.” - Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak, Performance Art development & research agency, Singapore
Artistic Director, I.A.R.C. - Independent Archive and Resource Centre, Singapore
e-mail: wen.lila@gmail.com
Born in Singapore, 1957
Education
2006 MA Fine Arts, LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
1992 City of London Polytechnic, London, UK
1990 LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
Solo Exhibitions:
2008 Anthropometry Revision, Soo Bin Art Int’l, SINGAPORE
2007 Freedom to Daydream, Mothers of Imagination, Your Mother Gallery, SINGAPORE
2004 Unframed¬7, P-10, SINGAPORE
2003 Strange Fruit, The Substation, SINGAPORE
2002 Everybody Should Be Happy, Utterly Art, SINGAPORE
1997 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:
2013 Britto International Artists Workshop, Dhaka, BANGLADESH
7th Kuala Lumpur Triennial BARRICADE , Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Cascadence / Singapore Redux, SINGAPORE
“The Realm in the Mirror, the Vision out of Image”, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, CHINA
“Gu Yu International Performance Art Festival 2013”, Xi An,Shang Nan, Beijing, CHINA
‘My Earth Staglinec 2013’ Staglinec, Koprivnica, CROATIA
‘Rethinking of Protocols-Us and/As Institutions’ curated by Biljana Ciric, Guangzhou Times Museum, Guangzhou, CHINA
“Lit Up 2013”, Aliwal Art Center, SINGAPORE
"The Artist, the Book and the Crowd", The Substation, SINGAPORE
“Singapore Biennale 2013: If The World Changed”, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
“Concept Context Contestation: art & the collective”, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, THAILAND
2012 "Wanderers 2 / Underground Site", 4th International Performance Art Festival Toyama, JAPAN
"New Strange Faces", Valentine Willie Fine Arts, SINGAPORE
“The Lecher of Art” The Substation, SINGAPORE
“14th Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival”, Bangkok, THAILAND
“The First Venice International Performance Art Week”, Venice, ITALY
2011 R.I.T.E.S. “Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak” #01/2011, The Substation, SINGAPORE
“This Is Performance Art”, Aberdeen and Glasgow, SCOTLAND
“Negotiating Home, History & Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art from S.E. Asia, 1991– 2011”, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
“Video: An Art, A History”, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
“Singapore Survey 2011: Imagine Malaysia”, Valentine Willie Fine Arts, SINGAPORE
Future of Imagination 7, Goodman Art Centre, SINGAPORE
“Currents: from Singapore in Macau”, Ox warehouse, MACAU
“Guangzhou Live”, You You Gallery, Guangzhou, CHINA
2010 National Review of Live Art 2010, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Performance Art Laboratory Project (PALA Project) 2010 /“undisclosed territory#4”,
Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, INDONESIA
Future of Imagination 6, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
9th International Performance Art, Turbine, Giswil 2010, SWITZERLAND
Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec, Quebec, CANADA
Survey from Singapore, FADO, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
4 Directions from Asia, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
"The winds project" encontro internacional da performance, Teatro TUCA, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Action Script: Symposium on Performance Art Practice and Documentation in Asia, HONG KONG
Performance Platform Lublin 2010, POLAND
BONE 13 – Festival für Aktionskunst, Berne, SWITZERLAND
2009 International Performance Show-Ceramic Passion, 5th World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, S. KOREA
Infr’Action ‘09 -Festival International d’Art Performance, Paris, FRANCE
Rasa Aksi-4 Artists From Singapore, Lublin, and, Warsaw, POLAND
Live Action Göteborg 09, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Momentum- Platform for Performance-Art, Brussels, BELGIUM
“Drawing As Form”, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, CHINA
LIVE International Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, CANADA
Performance In Frames, Singapore Management University Gallery, SINGAPORE
2008 "Small East Co-prosperity Restaurant 08", Tokyo, JAPAN
Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kết Nối : Vietnam-Singapore Performance Art Dialogue, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
Performatica’08, Four Artists From Singapore, 26cc, Rome and La Casa Verde, Foligno, ITALY
Blow!5- Performance Art Meeting between Singapore and Germany, Hildesheim & Ilsede, GERMANY
The Artists Village: 20 Years On, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
Infr’Action -Festival International d’Art Performance, Sète, FRANCE
UP-ON First International Live Art Festival, Chengdu, Sichuan, CHINA
2nd Vital Chongqing International Live Art Festival, Chongqing, Sichuan, CHINA
Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Performance Art in China & Asia, Macao Museum of Art, MACAU
Future of Imagination 5, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
Asiatopia, 10th Anniversary, Bangkok Art &Culture Centre, THAILAND
2007 National Review of Live Art 2007, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Perfurbance #3, “spiritual renewal”, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA
Là-bas-> Hyper Center in Helsinki, FINLAND
IX Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki Akcji "Interakcje 2007" Piotrkow Trybunalski; Bielsko-Biała, POLAND
Made In China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Humlebæk, DENMARK
Future of Imagination 4, 72-13, TheatreWorks, SINGAPORE
Maju Jaya – CHAOS Dab!, Jogjakarta National Museum, Jogjakarta, INDONESIA
Vital 07: essence of performance, Chinese Art Center, Manchester, ENGLAND
LONG’ACTION 07- rencontres franco-chinoises d’art performance, Sète FRANCE
2006 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2006, SINGAPORE
Satu Kali, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Future of Imagination 3, The Substation, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
TROUBLE #2, halles de schaerbeek, Brussels, BELGIUM
acción!06MAD - III Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Acción. Madrid, SPAIN
Ctrl+Alt+Del, Singapore Management University Arts Fest 2006, SINGAPORE
4th DaDao Live Art Festival, Beijing, CHINA
S+S, 1, ALL_2, Shenyang, CHINA
7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, CANADA
DEFORMES, Primera Bienal de Performance, Santiago, CHILE
Birds Migration: Indonesia International Performance Art Event [IIPAE] 2006, Jakarta, INDONESIA
Episode5: 12-Hour Performance, Sound and Video Festival, SINGAPORE
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’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, SPAIN
National Review of Live Art – MIDLAND 05, Perth, AUSTRALIA
Stopover, Japan Singapore Performance Art Meeting, FronT Room Gallery, SINGAPORE
Situations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
REACH OUTLYING 2005 Tipalive Taiwan International Performance Art Festival, Taipei, TAIWAN
"UGNAYAN‘05", 4th Philippine International Performance Art Festival (PIPAF), Manila, The Philippines
Spaces and Shadows: Politics of Fun, House of World Culture, Berlin, GERMANY
Self-portrait Performativ, langaut, Golberode, Dresden, GERMANY
BLURRR 5 biennial of performance art, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, SWITZERLAND
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
Future of Imagination 2, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
2003 Aciones en Ruta, Mexico City and Encuentro Intl de Performance Yucatan, Merrida, MEXICO
Future of Imagination, The Substation, SINGAPORE
4th Asiatopia, Bangkok THAILAND
“Alter-Native Dialogues”, Video/ Performance collaboration with James Luna, Tokyo, JAPAN
Recontre Int’l d’art 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
Theertha International Artists Workshop - 2001, Lunaganga, SRI LANKA
2000 FEAST! Food In Art! Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
Critical Response, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Expo 2000, Performance with Black Market International, Hanover, GERMANY
TransEuropa -Theatre Festival 2000, Hildesheim, GERMANY
Artists Investigating Monument - AIM projects, Raffles Landing Site, Singapore.
1999 Rånd, 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
“Post-Ulu”, The Artists Village Exhibition, The Substation, SINGAPORE
1998 Construction in Process VI - The Bridge, The Artists Museum, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Sub-Fiction, Werkleitz Biennale 1998, Tornitz & Werkleitz, GERMANY
"3rd Asian Performance Art Series”, 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
2nd Asian Performance Art Series, Nagano, Tokyo, JAPAN
SeptFest Art Conference-Multi-culturalism, The Substation, SINGAPORE
Performance Art Conference5, Bangkok, Suan Pakkad Palace, Bangkok, THAILAND
Recontre International d’art Performance Et Multi-media 1996, Quebec, CANADA
Between the Visible and Invisible, Lahore International Arts Workshop, PAKISTAN
2nd Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo & Nagano, JAPAN
Castle of Imagination, 3rd International Artists Meeting, Bytow, POLAND
“International Nature Art Symposium”, Yatoo, Kong Ju, South KOREA
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
5th Fukui International Video Biennale, Tawara, Fukui City, JAPAN
1993 Sense Yellow, Concrete House, Nontburi, THAILAND
1992 International Sculpture Symposium, Gulbarga, Karnataka, INDIA
1990 TIME Show, Artists Village, Ulu Sembawang, SINGAPORE
C.A.R.E.: Concerned Artists for the Environment, Artist Village, Singapore Art Festival, SINGAPORE
1989 HAPPENINGS II, QU*ART Gallery, Hong Kong, HONG KONG
HAPPENINGS, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
The Drawing Show, Artists Village, Ulu Sembawang, 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’l d’art performance de Quebec 2002, LELIEU, Quebec, CANADA
2003 Aciones en Ruta, Mexico City and Encuentro Intl de Performance Yucatan, Merrida, MEXICO
National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Zweiten Ilseder PerformanceAbend, Gebläsehalle in Ilsede, GERMANY
13th Performance Art Conference - “The Art of Action 111”, Podewils‘schen Palais, Berlin, GERMANY
Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, SWITZERLAND
Le Theatre de L'Usine (place des Volontaires), Geneve, SWITZERLAND
2006 TROUBLE #2, halles de schaerbeek, Brussels, BELGIUM
2007 National Review of Live Art 2007, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
2010 “undisclosed territory#4”, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, INDONESIA
Future of Imagination 6, Sculpture Square, SINGAPORE
Performance Platform Lublin 2010, POLAND
Performance Art Season 2010, Warsaw, POLAND
Black Market in Town, Orangerie Theater im Volksgarten, Köln, GERMANY
Blow!8, Umformerstation, Ilsede, GERMANY
BONE 13 – Festival für Aktionskunst, Berne, SWITZERLAND
2011 “This Is Performance Art”, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
2013 “Gu Yu International Performance Art Festival 2013”, Xi An,Shang Nan, Beijing, CHINA
AWARDS
2013 Artist-in-Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Contemporary Art of Japan, Saitama, Japan
2008 Artist-in Residence, Red & Grey Contemporary, Chengdu, China
2005 Cultural Medallion, Singapore
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
2013 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
2007 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2006 NRLA (National Review of Live Art) International Winter School, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
La-Salle-SIA College of the Arts, SINGAPORE
Nanyang College of Fine Art, 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 Autónoma 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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Singapore Art Museum;
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan);
Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane, Australia);
Lenzi-Morisot Foundation (Singapore – France);
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Chin Hock Seng (1981)
‘Pop dog’ 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
Chandrasekaran.S., Langenbach, R. & Lee Wen (1993)
Local Performance Art, Democracy: Commentary.
Journal of the National University of Singapore Society, Singapore, National
University of Singapore Society (Vol.11 No. 2)
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 © 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
HO Tzu Nyen
“strange fruit”
Art Asia Pacific / Spring 2004 No.40
Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and Eugene Tan
Contemporary Art in Singapore
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE, Singapore 2007
Valentin Torrens, Editor
Pedagogia De La Performance, Programmas de Cursos y Talleres
Diputacion Provincial De Huesca, Barcelona, Spain, 2007
Lee Wen, Editor
Anthropometry Revision
Soo Bin Art International, Singapore, 2008
Kwok Kian Woon, Lee Wen, Co-Editors
The Artists Village: 20 Years On
Singapore Art Museum, The Artists Village, Singapore, 2009
Richard Martel
Arte en vivo y en directo
EXIT Express Magazine #47 November 2009, p16-25
Adele Tan
Art and the iterative force: Lee Wen’s untaming of Yves Klein
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, May 2010, Vol. 32, No. 2, Pages 17-23
Iola Lenzi, Tan Boon Hui, Khairuddin Hori, editors, et. all.. Negotiating Home History and Nation Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991-2011 Singapore Art Museum 2011 Christine Van Assche, Patricia Levasseur de la Motte, et, all... Video, an Art, a History 1965 - 2010 A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections Singapore Art Museum 2011
Mitsu Salmon
Lee Wen's Revolutionary Daydreams, IN TIME December 2013, newsletter, Chicago, pg.22, 23
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
AFFILIATION:
Honorary member of Artists Village, Singapore,
Black Market International, (international performance art “group”)
Artistic Director, “Future Of Imagination”, International Performance Art Event, Singapore
Guest Curator: UP-ON First International Live Art Festival, 2008 Cheng Du China.
Co-Artistic Director, “R.I.T.E.S.” - Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak, Performance Art development & research agency, Singapore
Artistic Director, I.A.R.C. - Independent Archive and Resource Centre, Singapore
e-mail: wen.lila@gmail.com