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SU-YING LEE (she/her)
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Using gallery spaces for my work as well as self-determined platforms, engaging the possibilities within each site are considerable concerns of my practice. I am interested in employing the role of curator as a co-conspirator, accomplice and active agent. Querying what the presentation of art can contribute to creating “otherwise” compels me.
I am an independent curator and have also worked in institutions as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Curator in Residence at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, and Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. I received a Masters Degree in Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto and am an alumnus of the Toronto Arts Council/Banff Centre’s Cultural Leaders’ Lab. My projects have taken place across Canada, in Hong Kong, Mexico City and Quezon City (Metro Manila, Philippines). I write creative non-fiction and social criticism.
I am a settler living in Toronto/Tkaronto/Taranton/Gichi Kiiwenging, Canada, the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. This continues to be the meeting place and home to Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and beyond. I am immeasurably grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on this land.
”Otherwise” is a concept that refers to relationality as new modes of living and organizing in the service of collective liberation, taken from Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness an anthology edited by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith, Duke University Press, 2020.
The below is by no means an exhaustive list of names for the place that I reside: Tkaronto (Mohawk)/Taranton (Wendat) /Gichi Kiiwenging (Anishinaabemowin)/Toronto (English settler colonial). Turtle Island is a name that many Indigenous people use for North America.
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