CURRICULUM VITAE

Lennie Lee
Visual Artist and Performer

Born:4TH March1958
Address: 81 Sandringham Road, London E8 2LL UK
Telephone: 0044 7958 617 157
Email: lennielee@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

Dulwich College, London, UK
Scholarship to  study Classics at Christchurch College, Oxford University
BA Honours in Classics (followed by MA)

AWARDS

Travel Award to make a Solo Performance at the Open Arts Festival, Beijing from the British Council 2005

- Travel award from the British Council to make a Solo Performance at the Theater-Saal, The Kunst Haus Tacheles, Berlin 1991

- Travel Bursary from The Gulbenkian Foundation

EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLAATIONS, PERFORMANCES

2009 Subvision Kunst Festival, Hamburg (with The Divo Institute)
2009 Ausform Festival, The Cube Theatre, Bristol
2009 Brooklyn is Burning 3, Monkey Town, New York
2009 Ghost, London
2009 Worthless, London
2009 The Resistance gallery, London
2009 Visions of Excess, Shunt Lounge, London
2009 Brooklyn is Burning 2, Santos, New York
2009 Barden’s Bouddoir, London

2008 Divo Institute, Kolin
2008 AYCE London
2008 AYCE London
2008 Spectrum-London gallery, London

2007 Spectrum-London gallery, London
2007 The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles
2007  Coldstore, Berlin
2007 !WOWOW! collective, Birmingham
2007 SHUNT Lounge, London

2006 Gallery Noir, Los Angeles
2006 Kicking the Trash, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
2006 Process Symposium, National gallery Prague
2006 4TH Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing
2006 Area10, London
2006 Punk Purim, Rampart Street, London
2006 The Arts Club, Dover Street, London

2005 “Vomit in the mainstream” magazine launch, “Sketch”, London
2005 Wormhole Saloon, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2005 Observatori Festival, Museo de las cencias Principe Felipe, Valencia
2005 Dash, 291 Gallery, London
2005 Mark Divo’s salon, The Real Biennale, Prague
2005 Beijing New Art projects, 798 Complex, Beijing
2005 3RD Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing
2005 NFT, London
2005 Spectrum Gallery, London
2005 TRO, Treptow Town Hall, Berlin

2004 Carmen De La Guerra Gallery, Madrid
2004 Cold Creation Gallery, Barcelona
2004 Whitney Young Cultural Centre, San Francisco
2004 The Dada festival, Zurich
2004 Hydra,The 291 Gallery, London
2004 Vilma Gold Gallery, London

2003-4 TRO studios, Berlin
2003 Late at the Tate, Tate Britain, London
2003 The 291 Gallery, London
2003 The Buncker, Berlin
2003 Manege, St. Petersburg
2003 Derelict Sensation, St. Pancras Hotel, London
2003 Kroesus Foundation, Sihlpapierfabrik, Zurich
2003 Carmen De La Guerra Gallery, Madrid
2003 Standart Art Fair, Madrid
2003 ARCO Art Fair, Madrid

2002 Sonic Mook experiment, ICA, london
2002 Gallery K, London
2002 3rd Open Art Festival, Xian China
2002 Schadenfreude, Arcola theatre, London
2002 The Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

2001 2nd Open Art Festival, Chengdu, China
2001 Aristocracy, Westland Place, London

2000 Shoreditch Town hall, London
2000 Cable Street, Gallery, London

1999 The Italian Pavillion, The Venice Biennale, Venice
1999 Wrong Bodies, The ICA, London
1999 The Riverside Studios, London

1998 LAB Festival, Torpedo Hallen, Copenhagen
1998 “Contagious” at The National Gallery, Stockholm
1998 The Eagle Factory, London

1996-8 Hydra, Glastonbury Festival and The Vibe Bar, London

1996 Solo Lala Festival, Berlin
1996 FA+,Kunstradgorden, Stockholm
1996 FA+,Malmo Museum, Malmo
1996 Architectural Institute, Ekaterinenberg
1996 Modern Art Museum, Novosibirsk,Siberia
1996 RAF, Broadway Market, London

1995 Escherwyss Platz, Zurich

1994-2002 Numerous shows at Rich and Famous, London

1994 Kunst Haus Tacheles, Berlin

1993 Chats Palace, London
1993 Hackney Empire, London
1993 Kingley Street gallery, London

1992 Synlabor, Berlin
1992 Pullitt Art Centre, London
1992 Murals, Mutoid Waste Company, August Strasse 4, Berlin

1991 Haus Schonblick, Heimbach, near Koln.
1991 Le Cirque Divers, Liege
1991-2 Kule, Berlin
1991 Blau Salon,Kunst Haus Tacheles, Berlin
1991 Kultur Haus Peter Edel, Berlin
1991 The Capsule, London
1991 Weekend gallery, Berlin
1991 The Arc group, Galleria Milano, Milan
1991 The ARC group,UCLAC, Budapest

1990 The Barbican Art Centre, London
1990 The ARC, London
1990 Kunst Haus Tacheles, Berlin
1990 Kunst Halle Steglitz, Berlin
1990 Nosepaint, London
1990 The Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1990 Hardware Gallery., London 1988-1990 The Submarine Gallery, London

1989 Chumley Dene, London

1987-1988 The Diorama Gallery, London

1986 ICAF, Olympia, London

ART MAGAZINES
Arts Review, Alba, Art Line, Lovely Jobely, NextWave

NEWS PAPERS
The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily telegraph, Time out, City Limits, The Evening Standard, The Hackney, Echo, Hackney Gazette, the Islington Chronicle, The London Student, Detour, The Jewish Chronicle,

MAGAZINES
ID, Elle, Elle Decorations, Company, Interiors magazine, La Nouvelle Observateur, Marie Claire, Harbour magazine, Good Times, Fresh, Vomit in the Mainstream

FOREIGN PRESS
TAZ, Tip, Zitty, Scheinschlag, Durener nachrichten, Eifeler land, Duren Stadt Und Land, Der Nord berliner, Sonntag Zeitung, Zurcher Student, Telezuri, Chengdu Evening News, Stadt Zurich, Zurich Express, Tages Anzeiger, Arbetet Nyheterna, Sidsvenska Dagbladet, Dagens Niyheter, Berliner Zeitung, Berliner Morgenpost, Koncret, Berliner Abendblatt,

TV & RADIO
London Plus, Channel 4, Carlton, Fox, MTV, NovossibirskTV, Madrid TV, Chengdu TV, Radio 4, LBC, GLR, Radio Thamesmead

CATALOGUES
TWI, Fortuna, Our Wonderful Culture, Reactivart, Heterogenesis,  Eurokot, SIKB, National Review of Live Art, TRO, Deboshir, Contagious, Observatori 2005,

2000 Lee was the subject of a one hour Documentary for Channel Four

2001 he was included in an early Imax film about East London by Gerry Swayne

1994 he set up the RAF gallery, London

OTHER INTERESTS

As well as making performances, Lee is a prolific painter, photographer and installation artist. He has exhibited throughout Europe and has curated art events both in the UK and abroad. He has worked with a number of art collectives and has written for art journals as well as building a unique collection of contemporary art. His work has appeared in publications throughout Europe