Alexander Lee

Born:
1974
Residence:
New York, New York, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • This fall, Australian photographer Polly Borland unexpectedly discovered a very fitting place to show her series “The Babies” (2001)—a collection of photographs of men who have a fetish for dressing up as infants. As part of the exhibition “Human Condition,” which runs through November 30th in an abandoned hospital in Los Angeles, Borland’s jarring photos of adult men wearing diapers are on display in a cheerful former pediatric ward, hanging beside leftover pastel murals of frolicking kittens, bunnies, and puppies.

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  • São Paulo is a city of contrasts. Among its most striking is the difference between the 20th century pavilion housing the Bienal, an icon of modernism

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BIOGRAPHY

Alexander Lee was born in Stockton, CA, and grew-up in Tahiti, French Polynesia. He earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, his MFA from Columbia University, and MPS from New York University. Lee' s trilogy, THE DEPARTURE OF THE FISH, titled after the creation myth of the island of Tahiti, premiered at Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles in 2006 and at Clementine Gallery, New York in 2007. His subsequent projects, RECITATIONS FROM THE GREAT FISH CHANGING SKIES (2008), and EXPANDING-EEL-DEVOURER (2009) continue his interest in storytelling and the anthropic process.THE TUPAPAU WITHIN followed, a stage piece about the inner beasts at play in the creative process. His latest projects, THE BOTANISTand THE BOTANICAL FACTORY, as visual synthesis on post-colonial transformation have been presented in Singapore, Las Vegas, and São Paulo. He is currently Guest Artist Lecturer at the Centre des Métiers d'Arts de Polynésie Française where he is preparing the second edition ofMANAVA, a workshop-exhibition project to open at the Musée deTahiti in 2016.


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