Claire Lee is a visual artist from Hong Kong who lives and works between Hong Kong and London. Her self-initiated art projects are often research-based in practices, open creative dialogues and drawing inspirations from the contrasts and beauty in vulnerability found in human conditions. Her artworks have been exhibited in solo, group exhibitions and art fairs in Asia and abroad including Art Central, Amnesty International, Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (UK) and Northern Arizona University Art Museum for its juried exhibition themed on politics, violence, and reconciliation.

Her meditative and poetic approach in art making explores imaginations of the human psyche by experimenting with different tactile materials and mediums for her multi-faceted works include objects, paintings, drawings, and photographs. She has also given poetry performances and published poetry collections along with her artworks.

來自香港的視覺藝術家李美蓮在香港和倫敦兩地工作和生活。她自發的藝術專案常以實踐研究為基礎，從人類存在狀態之脆弱中的美和對比汲取靈感，並進行開放的創造性對話。她的作品曾在亞洲和國外的個展、 群展和藝術博覽會上展出，包括 Art Central、國際特赦組織、英國皇家坎布里亞藝術學院和北亞利桑那大學藝術館，評審展覽主題包括政治、暴力與和解。

她引人深思和富有詩意的藝術創作方式透過不同的觸覺導向材料和媒介的嘗試，來探索人類心靈的想像力。她的多媒體作品包括手作物件、繪畫和攝影，並有為其作品作詩歌展演和出版詩集。

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2019 - BEING ALONE TOGETHER

Inspired by the resilience Claire witnessed in her homeland where political unrest strikes fear, she made a series of ink and charcoal works to create a ‘spiritual landscape’ finding a cognitive empathy.

2017 - THE AWAKENING

Experienced the simultaneous qualities in bison of power and vulnerability, Claire created a body of over 40 pieces of bitumen-ink drawings along with her intimate poetry.

2015 - UNDER PRESSURE

During a year of research on people suffering from different degrees of physical and mental pressure, Claire created more than 90 drawings and photographs which are simply composed yet intense artworks on human resilience and survival energy.

2013 - TOFU & VIOLENCE

The self-initiated project opened a creative dialogue by inviting participants to interact with a piece of raw tofu without any tools but only the body. The result is a collection of photographs, written stories, and artworks that touched on intimate emotions and personal memories of the past.

Solo Exhibitions —

Hong Kong

2024 The Monster, Yrellag Gallery

2019 Being Alone Together, Shin Hing Street

2017  The Awakening, Charbon Art Space

2015  Under Pressure, Mur Nomade

2013  Tofu & Violence, PubArt Gallery

2012  Sacrifice, New Gallery on Old Bailey

2012  Sacrifice, Cattle Depot Artist Village

2011  Calm Before the Storm, Fringe Club Gallery

2009  The Weight of a Feather, The Studio

Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs —

2023 Meta-moments, Airside, Hong Kong

2022 31 Women Artists Hong Kong, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

2022 Annual Open, Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, United Kingdom

2017 Carnival, Amnesty International Hong Kong

2016  Under Pressure, Art Central, Hong Kong

2014 Chan Wing Nga & Claire Lee, Mur Nomade, Hong Kong

2014  Painting in the World: Reflections on Politics, Violence and Reconciliation,

Northern Arizona University Art Museum, United States

2014 mission [SPACE×ART] -beyond Cosmologies, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Japan

2013 Young Art Taipei, Taipei

2012 Asia Contemporary Art Fair, Hong Kong

2009 Apart from Apart, Art in HK, Central Plaza, Hong Kong

Poetry Collection and Art Book —

2019 Being Alone Together : Poems on Solitude from 3 Cities - poetry

2017 In Between - poetry

2017 The Awakening - art

2014 Fist - poetry

2013 Tofu & violence - art

2012 Ritual - poetry

2011 Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women, a World Poetry Anthology

Poetry Performances —

25th Hong Kong Book Fair

John Cage @ 100: Musicircus, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Monday Writer Forum, presented by Kubrick Poetry, The University of Hong Kong

Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival, The Fringe Theatre

New Media New Thinking, HK New Music Ensemble, Input/Output