Tim Lee

Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, Tim Lee's work both replicates and reimagines seminal moments in art history and popular culture. With sources that range from Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin, Dan Graham, Public Enemy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Ted Williams, Lee suggestively interpellates himself with the history of his subjects by loosely reconstructing specific works associated with their creators, and in so doing, complicates our knowledge of these histories while mapping out an extended timeline that travels from the historical past to the imagined future.

Tim Lee lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. He has a BA in Design from the University of Alberta, Canada, and an MFA from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has had solo exhibitions at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA (2008); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA (2008) and Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada (2007). He has been included in major group exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, New York City, NY, USA (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA (2015); Salzburg Museum, Austria (2014); Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA (2012); Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, USA (2012); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA (2011); Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan (2010); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (2010); Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada (2009); Tate Modern, London, UK (2006) and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA (2005). He has participated in numerous biennials includingShanghai Biennale, China (2012); Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2011); Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2008) and the 1st Prague Biennial, Czech Republic (2003). In 2008 he was awarded the Sobey Art Prize and the VIVA Art Award.

Tim Lee
Duck Soup, The Marx Brothers, 1933

2012
Installation view, 303 Gallery, New York, 2012
2-channel video installation
2 minutes, 50 seconds

Tim Lee
Solo, Merce Cunningham, 1953

2010
2 c-prints 101.6 x 127 cm each 40 x 50 in each

Tim Lee
Glenn Gould, Streichquartett, Op. 1, 1955, Studioaufnahme, aufgefџhrtvon Tim Lee

2010
2-colour silkscreen 137 x 137 cm 54 x 54 in

Tim Lee
The Idea of North, Glenn Gould, 1967

2010
Architectural model
129 x 30 x 30 cm 50 3/4 x 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in

Tim Lee
The Idea of North, Glenn Gould, 1967

2010
Architectural model
129 x 30 x 30 cm 50 3/4 x 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in

Tim Lee
Untitled (Buster Keaton), 1897

2010
16mm film, looping structure
35 seconds, variable dimensions