Sean Lee, a male-presenting East-Asian Chinese person smiles at the camera. He wears steampunk glasses that are green with gold frames, and has cropped hair with blunt bangs. He wears a beige shirt-dress that is animated by spots of fringed sleeping animal drawings.
Photo by Michelle Peek Photography and courtesy of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology & Access to Life, Re•Vision: The Centre for Art & Social Justice at the University of Guelph.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022, 6 PM
SEAN LEE
Sean Lee (he/they) is a part of a new generation of artists, curators, and arts leaders bringing fresh perspectives to the contemporary art field through an intersectional Disability Arts praxis. He is a queer, disabled East-Asian artist and curator exploring the assertion of disability art as the last avant-garde. His methodology explores crip curatorial practices as a means to resist traditional aesthetic idealities. Orienting towards a “crip horizon”, Sean’s practice explores the transformative possibilities of accessibility as an embodied politic and disability community building as a way to desire the ways disability can disrupt.
Sean holds a B.A. in Arts Management and Studio from UTSC. Previously, he was Tangled’s inaugural Curator in Residence (2016) as well as Tangled’s Gallery Manager (2017). Sean is also an independent curator, lecturer, and advisor, adding his insights and perspectives to conversations across Canada, the US, and internationally. Sean currently sits on the board of the Toronto Arts Council, CARFAC Ontario, Creative Users Projects and is a member of the OAC’s Deaf and Disability Advisory Committee and Chair of TAC’s Visual and Media Arts Committee.