Alexander Lee
° 1974
Born in Stockton (US), lives in Papeete (PF).
In his multi-media practice, Alexander Lee addresses Polynesian myths, his own Hakka Chinese roots and the colonial history of Oceania. The US and France carried out extensive nuclear test explosions in these archipelagos, now at risk from rising sea levels. Working on all the walls in the exhibition space, Lee has provided a visual setting for ‘A Temporary Futures Institute’ that references the Polynesian territory of Hawaii as the environment where Jim Dator elaborated his ‘four futures’.
Alexander Lee had solo exhibitions at the Clementine and Newman Popiashvili Galleries in New York, Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles and Collectors Contemporary in Singapore. Recent group exhibitions include ‘'Ōrama’ at Te Fare Manaha/Musée de Tahiti et des Îles in Papeete in 2016. In 2017, Lee participates in the 1st Honolulu Biennial and in ‘Tidalectics’ at TBA21 in Vienna.
