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.
Media
>California-born and Tahiti-raised artist Alexander Lee’s (start at 00:25:30) interests in storytelling, mythology, the anthropic process, and post-colonial transformation are explored in his works of site-specific installations, murals, drawings, paintings, and sculptures, compounding his Hakka-Chinese origins to his Polynesian upbringing, through revisiting Tahitian lore and representation. Professor Margo Machida (Art History and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut) moderates a conversation. This event took place on September 10, 2015 at the Asian/Pacific/American institute at NYU.
>Alexander Lee @M HKA, 2017
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Works
>Alexander Lee, Petroglyphs (Fenua Enata/Terre des Hommes), 2017.Painting.
>Alexander Lee, The Botanical Factory III, 2017.Series.
>Alexander Lee, Te fanau'a 'una'una nā te Tumu: The Sentinels, 2017.Painting.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: A Temporary Futures Institute. 28 April 2017 - 17 September 2017.