Bovey Lee is a cut paper artist based in Los Angeles. She is renowned for her highly intricate and laborious hand cut works that incorporate digital technologies as a mean. In her work, Lee explores the realm of intersectionality that connects disparate conceptual narratives of immigration and gender/cultural identities. A native of Hong Kong, Lee received her BA in fine arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She earned her first MFA degree in painting at UC Berkeley in 1995 and a second MFA in digital arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are represented in the permanent collections of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University, UK: USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Stanford Health Care; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, CA; and numerous corporate and private collections. She is the recipient of the Pollock-Kransner Felloeship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Vira I. Heinz Endowment, Hong Kong Art Biennale Awards, among others. Prior to her professional art practice since 2008, Lee had a decade long teaching career at several US universities. Passionate about art education, she regularly holds lectures and workshops at educational and cultural institutions, most recently including at Oxford University, UK; Chapman University, Orange, CA; University of Alberta, Canada; among others.
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