Josephine Lee
"My interdisciplinary practice is heavily informed by material exploration. Conceptually, my sculptures, installations, and performances, intersect narratives of dispossession and nationalism, making explicit how ideas of place are entangled within politics of citizenship and national identity. Within this framework, my materials and forms both signify and complicate overlapping identity formations, and notions of home and belonging. This collection is a series of biomaterial recipes concocted and tested during my time at What Lab."
About Josephine Lee
Josephine (she/her) is a first-generation South Korean immigrant whose work is largely informed by a lifetime of movement throughout the United States and Canada. Through sculpture, installation, and performance, her work makes explicit the politics of citizenship and national identity in order to create narratives that examine notions of home and belonging. Lee holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in both science and fine arts. She has exhibited in both Canada and the United States, and performed in documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. Recently, Lee was awarded the Oscar Kolin Fellowship, the Vera G. List Sculpture Award, and a Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Award for a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada.