Tim Lee
Artist Cv
Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, Tim Lee's work both replicates and reimagines seminal moments in art history and popular culture. With sources that range from Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin, Dan Graham, Public Enemy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Ted Williams, Lee suggestively interpellates himself with the history of his subjects by loosely reconstructing specific works associated with their creators, and in so doing, complicates our knowledge of these histories while mapping out an extended timeline that travels from the historical past to the imagined future.
Tim Lee lives and works in Vancouver
www.teel.ca
Artist Contact
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Artist Liaison: Silvia Sgualdini silvia@lissongallery.com +44 (0)20 7535 7353
Artist News
Yokohama Triennale 2008 - Time Crevasse
13 September - 30 November 2008
Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hu Fang, Miyake Akiko, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Beatrix Ruf.
Yokohama Triennale
Sobey Prize
Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada
31 August - 13 October 2008
Tim Lee is shortlisted for the 2008 Sobey Art Award, other shortlisted artists are Daniel Barrow, Terence Koh, Raphaeëlle de Groot and Mario Doucette. The Sobey Art Foundation's Sobey Art Award is Canada's pre-eminent prize for a young Canadian artist: the award of $50.000 is presented every year to an artist 40 years old or younger. The winner of the 2008 Sobey Art Award presented by Scotiabank will be announced at a gala reception at the Royal Ontario Museum on Wednesday, October 1 2008.
Sobey Art Award
Revolutions - Forms that Turn
16 Biennale of Sydney
8 June – 7 September 2008
Biennale of Sydney
Artist Press
When the Serious is Tinted with Humor, it Makes a Nicer Color.A conversation with Tim Lee by Jens Hoffmann - April 21, 2004
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Artist Exhibitions
Tim Lee April 7 - May 6, 2006View Exhibition
'I really should…' July 13 - August 27, 2005
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Artist Images
Retrospective, Public Enemy, 1988-91, 2006 2-channel video installation: 2 monitors and 2 DVD players with synchronisation unit Dimensions variable
Party for Your Right to Fight, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006 2-sided mirror with aluminium steel frame 213.5 x 152.4 cm
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006 C-Print 152.5 x 198 cm
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006 Vinyl record, steel wire, wood in plexiglass vitrine Dimensions variable
Untitled (James Osterberg, 1970), 2006 C-Print 183 x 213 cm
The Jerk, Carl Reiner, 1979, 2004 Framed C-Print 210 x 182 cm
Untitled (Neil Young, 1969), 2004 C-Print 129 x 160 x 8 cm
Funny Face, George and Ira Gershwin, 1933, 2002 2 Channel DVD installation Dimensions variable