Exhibitions

May—Jun 2023 | Pushing Boundaries, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Dec 2022 | Nebulous Straits: Virtual Residency & Exhibition Hosted by Diasporic Futurisms, Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through Toronto Arts Council, ON, CA

Dec 2021—Jan 2022 | Platforms: We Are Here, Live, Public Art Commission by the City of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, CA

Oct 2021—Nov 2021 | ID, Please, KCC Gallery, Washington DC, USA

Oct 2021 | Logics of Non-Exchange, Kellen Gallery, Manhattan, NY, USA

Oct 2021—Apr 2022 | MPCAS Selection: Kirogi (the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home), Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Jul 2021—Jan 2022 | MPCAS Selection: I think I Canada I know I Canada, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Jul—Oct 2021 | Faces of the Hero, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Manhattan, NY, USA + Stavros Niachos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

Jun–Sep 2021 | Signs in another language (series), VAC Satellite Gallery, Victoria, BC, CA

May—Jun 2021 | What is real?, The Real House, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Apr 2021—May 2021 | Practice until you feel the language inside you, Unrequited Leisure Gallery, Nashville, TN, USA

Jan 2021—Mar 2021 | Movements, Moments, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, USA

Jan 2021—Mar 2021 | /born ignorant in an abyss of light, Burrard Art Foundation, Vancouver, BC, CA

Nov 2020—Dec 2020 | MFA Fine Arts, SJDC Window Gallery, Manhattan, NY, USA

Oct 2020—Nov 2020 | Moving Throughlines, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, CA

Oct 2020—Nov 2020 | K-Art at Home 2020 Media Art Series: Josephine Lee, KCC Gallery, Washington DC, USA

Jan 2020—Mar 2020 | Voyager: Migrational Narratives, Emery CAC Gallery, Farmington, ME, USA

Oct 2019 | Between Here and There, 25 East Gallery, Manhattan, NY, USA

Sep 2019 | Return and Recall, 25 East Gallery, Manhattan, NY, USA

Jul 2019—Aug 2019 | We know more than we can tell…, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Apr 2018 | Undergrowth, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Feb 2018—Mar 2018 | Into the Dark, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Jan 2018—Feb 2018 | (Con)text, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Aug 2018 | What does listening sound like, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany

Jun 2016—Jan 2017 | Signs for a reasonable protest, Canada Line Public Art Program, Vancouver, BC, CA

Jun 2016—Jul 2016 | New Work, New Space, New People, Viridian Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Apr 2016—May 2016 | Hole through which to see the sky, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Nov 2015—Dec 2015 | Printed Matters, Read Books Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Apr 2015 | The Study Room, AMS Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, CA

Residencies

2024 Artist in Residence, The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard, Norway and North Pole region

2024 Artist in Residence, Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC

2024 Artist in Residence, Deer Lake Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC

2022 Nebulous Straits Artist in Residence, Toronto, ON

2022 Emerging Artist in Residence, Centrum, Port Townsend, WA

2022 Artist in Residence, Deer Lake Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC

2021 Artist in Residence, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery + The Quantum Matter Institute, Vancouver, BC

2021 BIPOC Studio Award Artist in Residence, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, BC

2021 Arts & Archival Artist in Residence, What Lab, Vancouver, BC

2020 New Media Gallery Micro Residency, New Westminster, BC

2020 Visual Arts Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB

Education

2021—Present | Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts. School for the Contemporary Arts, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

2018—2020 | Master of Fine Arts. Departmental Honours, Fine Arts, Parsons, The New School Department of Art, Media, and Technology, Manhattan, New York, USA

2015—2018 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Departmental Honours, Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

2006—2010 | Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Animal Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA

Awards/Grants

2024 Canada Council for the Arts Grant

2023 BC Arts Council Individual Arts Award

2022 BC Arts Council Fine Arts Scholarship Award

2022 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

2021 Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant

2020 Vera G. List Sculpture Award

2020 Oscar Kolin MFA Fellowship

2020 Sparkbox Emerging Artist Award

2020 College of Art Association Travel Grant

2019 American Craft Council Equity Award

2018 President’s Scholarship for Parsons School of Design

2018 University of British Columbia Medal in Fine Arts

2017 BC Arts Council Fine Arts Scholarship Award

2017 Go Global Student-Initiated International Internship Award

2016 Helen Belkin Memorial Scholarship in Fine Arts

2016 Wilhelmina Elizabeth and Herbert Cramer Memorial Award

2015 University Women’s Club of Vancouver Muriel Loch Memorial Award

Press and Publication

Burnaway Exhibition Review: Practice until you feel the language inside you at Unrequited Leisure

Foundwork Guest Curator Lee Pivnik Artists Highlight

SAD Magazine: Josephine Lee Explores Home and Belonging in Latest Exhibit: /born ignorant in an abyss of light

Burrard Art Foundation: In Conversation with Josephine Lee

Featured Artist, MAAKE Magazine Issue 11 Curated by Tanya Gayer

K-Art at Home: Josephine Lee | 2020 Media Art Series Curated by Ji Young Yun, Korean Cultural Center Washington, DC

Thought-provoking MFA Work From Pratt and Parsons, HYPERALLERGIC Editorial by Dessane Lopez Cassell

2020’s MFA Grads on What It Means to Be an Artist Today, ARTSY.NET Editorial by Casey Lesser