Joyce Yu-Jean Lee

Board Member

Prattt Institute, Assistant Professor

Joyce Yu-Jean Lee is a transnational Taiwanese-Chinese American visual artist and Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She combines video, glass, photography and interactive installation with institutional critique to examine collective understanding of the “other.” She is the founder of FIREWALL Cafe, a project about Internet censorship, which garnered backlash from Chinese state authorities in 2016.

Lee has exhibited at the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), the Oslo Freedom Forum, SCOPE Art Fair, Hong Kong Center for Community Cultural Development, The Delaware Contemporary and Kreeger Museum. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Hong Kong Free Press, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic and on BBC Radio. She holds a M.F.A. in interdisciplinary art from Maryland Institute College of Art and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

https://www.joyceyujeanlee.com