Christine Yerie Lee (Memphis, TN) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working in video, drawing, and sculpture. Raised in the American South, Lee’s practice explores performativity, embodiment, and spectatorship as a way to reexamine ideas of authenticity, nationhood, and desire in relation to self-construction. Drawing from Korean and American folklore, global histories, and pop culture, she builds interconnected worlds where fantasy and reality collide, creating a new place for cultural, psychological, and socio-political discovery.
Currently, she is Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and has participated in residency programs at Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau (FR), Heart of Los Angeles, and Crosstown Arts. She is the recipient of the College Art Association’s Visual Arts Fellowship. Lee received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
She has taught video art courses at California Institute of the Arts and California State University, Long Beach, and Pomona College. Her work has been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles, and abroad in Finland, Argentina, France, and the Netherlands.
Contact: lee.christineyerie@gmail.com