Born: 1975, Vancouver, BC

 

Education

MFA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
BFA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Drawn from Memory, Contact 2008/Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON

2007
Evan Lee Drawing, Photography, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2006
Evan Lee, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON
Manual Labour, CSA Space, Vancouver, BC
Evan Lee Captures–Selected Works 1998-2006, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC (catalogue)

2003
Stain, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2001
Closer than they Appear, Centre A, Vancouver, BC

2000
Photographs, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1998
Passive / Aggressive, Anodyne Contemporary, Vancouver, BC

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
The Constant Search for a Better Way, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, BC
White, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto

2007
Works on Painting: Rebecca Donald, Evan Lee, Ben Reeves, CSA Space, Vancouver, BC

2006
Winter Salon Show, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2005
Curb Appeal, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown
L’huile et L’eau/Oil and Water - Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal IX - Image & Imagination, Le Bain Mathieu/SPAG (two-person, cat.)
Decay, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

2004
Reciprocal Influences, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON
At Play, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2003
Out of Sight, curated by Christopher Brayshaw, Presentation House, North Vancouver, BC

2002
A Proposal for an Exhibition, curated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Binocular Parallax, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
A Weird Science, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1000 Titles (I) and 1000 Titles (II), Western Front Artist-run Centre, Vancouver, BC

2001
These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2000
Out of Sight: the Image Beyond the Index, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Masters, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver (cat.)

1998
New Work, ACCESS Artist Run Center, Vancouver, BC

1997
Sight Lines – New Artists New Work, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Configuration: New Art from Vancouver, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC
UBC BFA Exhibition, Frank Tam Gallery and Art and Design Gallery, Vancouver, BC

 

Awards

2005
Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Visual Arts Development Award, Vancouver Foundation
Project Assistance for Visual Artists grant, British Columbia Arts Council

2003
Creation/Production Grant Canada Council for the Arts

2002
Project Assistance for Visual Artists Grant, British Columbia Arts Council Grant

2000
Helen Belkin Memorial Scholarship in Fine Arts

1997
University of BC Honorable Mention for the Helen Pitt Award
University of BC Medal (Head of the Graduating class in Fine Arts

1996
British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship

1993
University of BC Outstanding Student Initiative Scholarship

 

Talk and Activity

Artist’s Talk, Emily Carr Institute, 2008
Artist’s Talk, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007
Jury member, Visual Arts Development Award, Vancouver Foundation, 2006
Artist’s Talk, University of BC, March 2006
Artist’s Talk, Presentation House Gallery, January, 2006
Jury member, Creation/Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2004
Public Discussion, Closer than they Appear, Centre A, October 2001
Artist’s Talk, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, October 2001
Jury, 2001 Helen Pitt Awards, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
Artist’s Talk, These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, June 2001.
Artist’s Talk, University of BC, October 2000.

 

Selected Reviews & Bibliography

Neville, Charo, “The Perception of Things: Recent Drawings and Photographs by Evan Lee”. Yishu
Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 7, No. 1 January 2008, pp. 100-103.
Heather, Rosemary, “Evan Lee Monte Clark Gallery”. Flash Art International, Vol.39, No. 251
Nov/Dec 2006, pp. 124-6.
Turner, Michael, “Evan Lee at Presentation House Gallery”, Art on Paper, Vol.10, No. 4 March/April
2006, pp. 75-6.
Laurence, Robin, “Evan Lee Captures”, The Georgia Straight, 2-9 March 2006
Burnham, Clint, “Art Unhiding the Hidden”, The Vancouver Sun, February 4, 2006, F3.
Brayshaw, Christopher, “Slick Photos Reveal Magic in the Mundane” The Georgia Straight,
1-8 May 2004.
Harris, Mike, “Stain’s a Slick Show” Vancouver Sun, 16 April 2003.
Laurence, Robin, “Of Pompoms and Pop Culture” The Georgia Straight, September 11-18, 2003,
pp 47-48.
Laurence, Robin, “Even Lee”. The Georgia Straight. September 11-18, 2003.
Brayshaw, Christopher, “Show Chock Full of Talent” The Georgia Straight, December 12-19, 2002,
p 72.
Brayshaw, Christopher, “Art Develops out of Weird Science of Photography” The Georgia Straight,
June 6-13, 2002, p 65.
Culley, Peter, “The Night of A Thousand Bees…” Last Call, Vol. 1, No.3, spring 2002.
Roy, Marina, “These Days” Last Call, Vol.1 Issue 2, fall 2001.
Turner, Michael, “These Days” MIX, vol. 27, no 1.
Milroy, Sarah, “Onward and Upward” The Globe and Mail, August 13, 2001 Review 3, 2001.
Brayshaw, Christopher, Out of Sight: the Image Beyond the Index, ex. Cat. Surry Art Gallery, 2000.
Palacios, Matha Gonzalez, “Evan Lee: Photographs at the OR Gallery”, InFlux, March 2000,
Vol.15, #5.
Rorke, Rosalind, “Masters”, Master, ex. Cat., Morris and Belkin Gallery, 2000.
Somani, Mohamed, “The Gospel of Pictures: a Look at Interiority and Worldliness in the Threshold of
the Photographs of Evan Lee”, Or Gallery, 2000
MacTaggart, Alison, “New Work”, booklet, ACCESS Artist Run Center, 1998.
Lee, James-Jason, “Configuration: New Art from Vancouver” C international contemporary art, #56,
November 1997 - January 1998.
Scott, Michael, “When the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary” The Vancouver Sun, July 24,
1997, C1-2.

 

Published Projects & Interviews

Drawing Photography, Pyramid Power vol. 1 no. 4
Ginseng Studies 1-36, Pyramid Power vol. 1 no. 2
Four (collaborative blog project) http://four2007.blogspot.com/
Artland USA (series 2) television program, Illuminations, United Kingdom,
season 2 episode 8
A City on the Verge: a Documentary on the Personal Life of a City, Gu Yu (director/writer) and Grace Fan (producer/writer), 30 mins, 2006
Lee, Evan and Adam Harrison, “A Conversation (II)”, published by CSA Space, May 2006.
Interview, Visual Codec, April 2006.
Harrison, Adam and Evan Lee, “A Conversation”, Doppelganger Magazine, Volume 2, 2005.
Lee, Evan. “40 Armored Cars”, Trace, #5, Tillie Kwan, ed., 2001.
Lee, Evan and Somani, Mohamed, “1000 Titles”, MIX, vol. 27, no. 1.
Lee, Evan. “Discovering and Reconsidering the Life and Blood in Old Pictures:
A Rephotography Project” Rice Paper, V 6.3, 2001.

 

Collections

Simon Fraser University Gallery
Surrey Art Gallery
Centre A - Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver
Various private and corporate collections, Canada, USA, UK