"Through mixed media paintings, I explore the space between states of being,cultures, histories, identities, representation and abstraction as a result of contemporary life. Reconstructing the “mashup” and intersections of Chinese and Western cultures on a flat picture plane, I mix up different pictures from diverse sources with various drawing and painting media. Re-invented and hybrid identities result from these combinations. As an equal opportunist appropriator, I borrow both from the paintings of Audubon and the Song Dynasty, mix acupuncture charts with botanical diagrams. I merge oil, ink and crayon on silk and wood. The pictures I lift are scientific, historical and medical images from textiles, botanical and ornithological illustrations, Google images, discarded cardboard box packaging,printed books and advertising. A wide variety of materials are used such as encaustic, china marker, oil pastels, oil paint, chalk pastels, gouache, and pencil. On the surface of this abstract environment, the meeting of materials and images are both cohesive and uncomfortable much like the hyphenated identity I represent."
JJ Lee (b. 1969, Halifax) received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1992. After residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Lee moved to Vancouver and initiated Lotusland: an Asian-Canadian artists collective. Lee has exhibited extensively in both public institutions such as the Vancouver Art Gallery and artist-run centres across the country. In 1999, Lee received an MFA from York University, Toronto. She is the recipient of several awards (including Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, RBC New Canadian Painting Competition and the Asian Canadian Artists Fund for Visual Arts). Her work is in public (RBC, York University, Canada Council Art Bank) and private collections in Canada and the USA. She is represented in the Magenta Foundation’s Carte Blanche: Painting, a survey of contemporary Canadian painters. She lives in Toronto with her husband and teenager and is an Associate Professor, Contemporary Issues of Representation at OCAD University.
Jiang,Xixi. Drawing on the past: Chinese-Canadian artistincorporates her own work into grandfather’s belongings to tell family’simmigration tale at Halifax museum. Saltwire.May16, 2023 https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/lifestyles/drawing-on-the-past-chinese-canadian-artist-incorporates-her-own-work-into-grandfathers-belongings-to-tell-familys-immigration-tale-at-halifax-museum-100853640/
Black,Anthony. Art and Artifact: How a vivid dream and a nearlyforgotten history led to a new exhibition. May 2023https://pier21.ca/art-and-artifactCBC News. Halifax exhibit tells story of 4generations of Chinese-Canadian family. May 20, 2023. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-exhibit-tells-story-chinese-canadian-family-1.6847600
Jiang,Xixi. Unveiling the 100-Year history of Chinese Immigrationto Canada: A Halifax Family’s Perspective . New Canadian Media, May 16, 2023 https://newcanadianmedia.ca/unveiling-the-100-year-history-of-chinese-immigration-to-canada-a-halifax-familys-perspective/
West,Jerry. Exhibit traces one family's momentous journey from China to Halifax.CBC Information Morning Halifax. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-27/clip/15985352
Ameida,Ana. A New Exhibition Combines Art and Artifacts. Atlantic CTVMorning Live.May 15, 2023 https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2687145&jwsource=cl
DeWitt,Paul. Asian Heritage Month “In my yesterday” at Pier 21.May 12, 2023Atlantic CTV news https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2686437&jwsource=cl
DeMont,John. Finding a people’s history in a west-end attic, TheChronicle Herald, May 12, 2023 https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/john-demont-finding-a-peoples-history-in-a-west-end-attic-100852779/
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Education and Artist’s Residencies
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, York University, Toronto ON, 1999
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major: Painting, Minor: Art History, NSCAD HalifaxNS 1992
Artist-In-Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff AB, Fall 1994, Winter1995
Artist-In-Residence, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC Oct-Dec 1996
Artist-In-Residence, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Canning, NS, February2018
Selected Exhibitions (Solo, Collaborative and Group)
2023 In My Yesterday 我的昨日拾光, Pier 21 Museum ofImmigration, Halifax, NS (solo) May 13-July 23
Drawing Lab, Durham Art Gallery,Durham, ON (group)
Inter-, Cross-, Post-,Pre-,De-,Re-,In-,Con-,Pro-,-ology,-ism,-ic,-izing,-ial,(The Drawing Board),113Research, OCADU
2022 Marking Schemes (The Drawing Board),Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
Pandemic Parenting”, Museum of Motherhood, Aug 8-29, 2022 (group)
2021 Nest, Gallery On Queen, Fredericton,NB (solo)
Next Futures, Project 31, OCADUniversity (group)
Drawing (TheDrawing Board), John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto ON April (group)
2019 Project 31, (The Drawing Board), TheGreat Hall, OCAD U, April (group)
2018 The Summer Institute Exhibition (TheDrawing Board), Ada Slaight Gallery, OCADU, September 15-29, (group)
(dis)Oriental:The New Model Minority, University of Arts London, England(group)
Combo #1, RedeemerUniversity Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON (solo)
Reproduction, Earl SelkirkGallery, Toronto ON (solo)
ReOriented, Ross CreekCentre for the Arts, Canning, Nova Scotia (solo)
Inventories, Capacity 3Gallery, Guelph, ON (solo)
2017 HurryUp and Wait, curated by A. Luis (Smithsonian); Asian Arts Initiative,Philadelphia PA (group)
Mixed Media (multimediaevent incl. dance duet created, performed by S. Liska and S. Lee), Artscape,Toronto
Painting 2017, Paintings byContemporary Canadian Artists (Jurors: P. Edmonds. C. Griffin), JB Aird Gallery(group)
Back to theDrawing Board, with Amy Swartz and NatalieWaldburger(The Drawing Board) Loop Gallery,Toronto ON
ExperiencingPerspectives, juried group exhibition, MercedesBenz, Toronto ON(group)
Project 31, juriedexhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, ON (group)
2016 ExperiencingPerspectives, juried group exhibition Mercedes Benz, Mississauga ON
2015 Chinoiserie, loop Gallery, Toronto ON(solo)
Chinoiserie, Capital OneNorth York Gallery, ON (solo)
Clarington Visual Arts Centre (Invitational), Bowmanville, ON
I AM NSCAD (juried), AnnaLeonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2014 Faculty Show (Invitational), The GreatHall, OCADU, Toronto ON
First Impressions (Invitational),The Great Hall, OCADU, Toronto ON
2013 Sign Languages with Mei Lee Ogden,loop Gallery, Toronto, ON (solo/two person)
OIL/Change (Invitationalgroup), Central Art Garage, Ottawa, ON Fall
Artists Teaching Artists, CWSE Hallway Gallery, OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
2012 Spotlight on 40 years: Artworks from the CanadaCouncil Art Bank (Invitational group), Canada Council Art Bank,Ottawa, ON
Collective Vision (Invitational),Loop Gallery, Toronto ON
2011 Dream in the Flower, Index G, Toronto,ON (solo)
2010 AAFNY,invited guest artist by Blunt Collective, New York City, NY
2009 ExperiencingPerspectives 2009-2010, Daimler Financial Services, Missisauga ON
2008 Migration,LOOP Gallery, Toronto, ON (solo)
2007 Arts in the Workplace, Investor’sGroup/Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto ON
2006 Fabrication, Elora Centre for theArts, Elora, ON (solo)
2005 Still Life with Tangents (traveling (solo)) Lennox Contemporary, Toronto and Gallery 96 Stratford ON
2003 art@suite 500, TDCentre, York University Shulich School of Business, Toronto ON
2002 New Canadian Painting, RBC PaintingCompetition, Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
2001 Naturalia, A-Space Gallery, Toronto,ON (solo)
From the Eastern Edge, I-Land Gallery,Toronto w/ Robert Bean, Marlene Creates, others, Toronto ON
2000 Fresh Paint, MEG Gallery, Toronto ONCurated by the ZenMix 2000 Collective
Art and Healing, James B.Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
1999 ARTBOX, York UniversityShulich School of Business, Toronto, ON
1998 China Turns, OntarioGallery of Chinese Art, Toronto, ON
1997 Tracing Cultures IV:Cultural Difference and Migration, Burnaby Art Gallery, BC (catalogue)
Au nom du la terre, Language Plus,Alma, Quebec PQ
1996 topographies: aspects inrecent BC art, Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)
Passage, PittGallery, Vancouver, BC (solo)
Piecing, NeutralGround Gallery, Regina SK (solo)
1995 Currents: an exhibition of contemporaryart, L’Atelier, Vancouver, BC (catalogue)
1994 In the Absence,three-person exhibition, St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax NS
Paintings, The OtherGallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff AB (solo)
1992 START: Painters of Promise,Studio 21 Fine Art Gallery, Halifax NS
Contemporary Artists in Nova Scotia(cat.), Mt St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Bedford NS
1991 The Lucky Eggroll Show,OO Gallery, Halifax, NS
Press, Reviews, Interviews
Jiang,Xixi. Drawing on the past: Chinese-Canadian artistincorporates her own work into grandfather’s belongings to tell family’simmigration tale at Halifax museum. Saltwire.May16, 2023 https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/lifestyles/drawing-on-the-past-chinese-canadian-artist-incorporates-her-own-work-into-grandfathers-belongings-to-tell-familys-immigration-tale-at-halifax-museum-100853640/
Black,Anthony. Art and Artifact: How a vivid dream and a nearlyforgotten history led to a new exhibition. May 2023https://pier21.ca/art-and-artifactCBC News. Halifax exhibit tells story of 4generations of Chinese-Canadian family. May 20, 2023. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-exhibit-tells-story-chinese-canadian-family-1.6847600
Jiang,Xixi. Unveiling the 100-Year history of Chinese Immigrationto Canada: A Halifax Family’s Perspective . New Canadian Media, May 16, 2023 https://newcanadianmedia.ca/unveiling-the-100-year-history-of-chinese-immigration-to-canada-a-halifax-familys-perspective/
West,Jerry. Exhibit traces one family's momentous journey from China to Halifax.CBC Information Morning Halifax. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-27/clip/15985352
Ameida,Ana. A New Exhibition Combines Art and Artifacts. Atlantic CTVMorning Live.May 15, 2023 https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2687145&jwsource=cl
DeWitt,Paul. Asian Heritage Month “In my yesterday” at Pier 21.May 12, 2023Atlantic CTV news https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2686437&jwsource=cl
DeMont,John. Finding a people’s history in a west-end attic, TheChronicle Herald, May 12, 2023 https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/john-demont-finding-a-peoples-history-in-a-west-end-attic-100852779/
Hill,Lizzy. Hyphenated Realities: JJ Lee Unravels Chinese-Canadian IdentitiesVisual Arts News, Summer 2018Vaughn,RM. This 60-foot installation turnsChinese-Canadian cuisine into a monumental metaphor. CBCArts, March 12, 2018
Lawlor,Allison. Artist Explores How Chinese and Canadian Cultures Meet and Mix.The Chronicle Herald. March 11, 2018
Thompson,Ashley. Canning’s Ross Centre Arts Centre celebrates Chinese New Year. King’sCounty Register, February 21, 2018
Wang,Tina. Interview. HunanMango TV/CCCTV, August 2017
Mullins,Morgan. JJ Lee Artist Talk, The Coast, July 14, 2017
Lawson, Katie. JJ Lee: Chinoiserie & Robyn Thomas: PaperWorks at loop, ArtToronto http://www.artoronto.ca/?p=29517 August 2, 2015
Dudin,Tali. Artsync TV Interview, 2011, Aired February 4, 2011
Vaughan,RM. “What’shot? Loads of colour.” The Globe and Mail. Friday, Jan. 21, 2011
Vaughan,RM. Toronto Magazine, National Post, June 4, 2005
Farguharson, Catherine. “Crowded Crawl”, NOWMagazine Sept 16-22, 2004
Kwan, Karen. “Pursue Your Passion.” pg. 49 JasmineMagazine, Autumn 2004
Kelly, Dierdre. “Cover Up”, Elle Canadapg.44 December 2003
Couto, M. “Fruits of Passion”, green banana Summer2003 pp. 29-30
McKenzie, M. “Succulent,” Lola 15 Mar2003: lolamagazine.com/L15_shotguns_5.html#lee
Vaughan, RM. ”Pretty Young Things,” The Globe and Mail Visual Arts Supplement12/09/02
Pastor, Tamara. Vernissaage (review), World of Art,Issue 4, Vol 2, 2002, pg 90
Von Bark, E. “JJ Lee: Ripe at Angell Gallery”, Lola11, Winter 2001/2, pg. 85
Chinese Newsline, CFMT Television Toronto,August 13, 2000
Dault, Gary M. “JJ Lee at Angell Gallery”Gallery Going, Globe and Mail 11/11/00.
Hanna, Dierdre. “Painted Word” NOW Magazine,08/10/00
Dault, Gary M. “Fresh Paint: Meg Gallery”Gallery Going, Globe & Mail 8/12/00.
‘Asian Artists show in Fresh Paint’ Ming Pao Press, Toronto 8/ 5/00
“Piecing”, Ming Pao Press, Vancouver BC 3/ 5/97
Timeline Magazine, Fairchild Television,Vancouver, BC 1997
Mastai, Judith. “Topographies: Aspects of Recent BCArt.” C magazine Issue #52 pg. 26 Feb-Apr 1997
Foo, Kuan. “Passage”, FUSE Magazine,Fall 1996
Barnard, Elissa. “Young Artists Share Insights”,The Mail Star, Halifax, 05/13/94
Mac, Kathy.”Contemporary Artists in Nova Scotia”,Visual Arts Nova Scotia 9/92
Maritime Magazine, CBC Radio, November 1992
Barnard,E. “Identity Common Theme in Lucky EggrollShow” The Mail Star, Hfx 8/29/91
Publications
Lee,JJ. In My Yesterday. Featured artists pages of text and images, Canada’sHistory Magazine, June-July 2023 https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/settlement-immigration/in-my-yesterday
Museumof Motherhood Publication: https://mommuseum.org/category/featured-2/page/6/, 2023
The Drawing Board Canadian Art Teacher Journal,Canadian Society for Education through Art/Société Canadienne d’Education parl’Art. Issue 18.2 Special Insert, January 2022
https://csea-scea.ca/canadian-art-teacher-enseigner-les-arts-au-canada-vol-18-no-2-2022/#insert
Gairola, Vibhu. Article: “ART: Insidethe private art collection of OCADU president Sara Diamond”,Toronto Life March 14, 2017
Lee, JJ, Papaya, 2008. RBC Collection Frontcover reproduction of The Lark Ascending, by D. White, Peddlar Press,Toronto ON 2017
Seah, Daphne. Pixable.com, Featured in onlinearticle about mother-daughter collaborations www. http://www.pixable.com/article/inspiring-‐mother-‐daughter-‐artist-‐collaborations-‐photos-‐92994/
Featured Artist, Fowl Feathered ReviewInternational Quarterly Issue 12, 2015
ArtSync: The Book 2010-2011, Artsync 2011
ExperiencingPerspectives 2009-2010, DaimlerFinancial Services, Mississauga (catalogue), 2010
RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Ten Years. RBC MacMillan/CanadianArt, 2008
Carte Blanche II: Painting. Magenta Publishers for the Arts, 2008
Slate Magazine front cover reproduction,February-March 2001
Language Arts Magazine, front cover colour reproduction,March 2000
Featured Artist’s pages, MIX magazine, May 1998
Tracing Cultures IV: Cultural Difference and Migration, (catalogue)Burnaby ArtGallery, 1997
Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art, (catalogue)Douglas & McIntyre/VancouverArt Gallery, 1996
Event: Douglas College Review, one year of front cover reproductions, 1995
Currents:an exhibition of contemporary art,(catalogue)L’Atelier, Vancouver, BC 1995
Curatorial Work
Painted Identities,John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto ON December 21, 2018 -January 25, 2019.Exhibition of eight BIPOC Drawing and Painting Graduates from OCAD University,2018.
Collections
Canada Council Art Bank, RBC Investments,York University
private collections-Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal,Halifax, California
Awards/Grants
2024 Silver, One of a Kind Story Telling,National Magazine Awards
SSHRCResearch Seed Grant, OCAD University to hire Research Assistant
2023 Excellence in Journalism (Print), CanadianEthnic Media Association
2022 Canada Council Explore and Create: Conceptto Realisation (25,000). Employed recent IAMD graduate Grace An
Price Award for Leadership in Teaching,OCAD University
2021 Canada Council Exploration andCreation Grant for The Drawing Board (25,000)
2020 Canada Council COVID Emergency Fund forThe Drawing Board (6500)
SSHRCExplore Grant for The Drawing Board (7,500)
2018 Shortlisted for: The Price TeachingExcellence Award, The Inspired Teaching Award: Faculty of Art,
TheInspired Teaching Award: First Year
CanadaCouncil Exploration and Creation Grant for The Drawing Board (25,000)
Ontario Arts Council ExhibitionsAssistance Grant for ReOriented (1500)
2017 Toronto Arts Council Production and CreationGrant for Mixed Media
Nominatedfor Inspired Teaching Award: Leadership to Advance Teaching, OCADUniversity
Nominatedfor Price Teaching Award, OCAD University
2012 Nominatedfor Price Non-Tenured Faculty Teaching Award, OCAD University
2010 Canada Council ProjectGrant, Visual Arts (15,000)
2005 Ontario Arts CouncilExhibitions Assistance Grant
2004 Visual Arts Winner: Asian-CanadianVisual Arts Fund (North American Association of Asian Professionals)
York University Purchase Award
2003 RBCInvestments New Canadian Painting Competition: Central Canada Winner
2002 Canada Council Mid-CareerProject Grant
2000 Ontario Arts CouncilMid-Career Artist Project Grant
Ontario Arts Council Exhibitions Assistance
1999 Ontario Arts CouncilEmerging Artist Project Grant
1998 Susan Tannenbaum Scholarship(York University)
1997 BC Arts Council ArtsScholarship
York University Entrance Scholarship
1996 BC Arts Council ProjectGrant
Canada Council Travel Grant
Canada Council Short Term Grant
1995,1994 Banff Centre for the Arts Financial Award
1991 Effie May Ross NSCAD
Endowment Fund Scholarships
Nova Scotia Talent Trust (Government of Nova Scotia)
1989 CentennialScholarship, NSCAD
1987 Centennial FoundationScholarship, NSCAD
Public Presentations/Artist’s Talks
InvitedGuest Speaker, AHIS 4260 Mod/Cont Art Theory & Criticism, NSCAD University,Halifax, May 6, 2024
A conversation with JJ Lee, "In my yesterday" 我的昨日拾光, with Linda Yip, Geneaology for Asian Canadians, November 16,2023
InvitedGuest Speaker, Ontario Heritage Fair Award Winner ceremony, OISE, University ofToronto, May 27, 2023
Artist-Educatorpresentation, “Playing Seriously” for Thinking Through MakingIAMD Graduate Studies, OCAD University July 17, 2020.
Assessing Assessment--An AlternativeApproach.Future Ancestors and Future Learning - A panel with I-BPOC faculty,Toronto, Jay Irizawa, Sugandha Gaur, Susan Blight, Tannis Nielsen. (2020).
InvitedGuest Speaker, Intersectionality and Cultural Feminism, HavergalCollege, April 9, 2019
InvitedPanel Member, CPAOPS/ Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement: DecolonisingArt School Conference with Professors Immony Mem, Natalie Waldburger, chairedby Glenn Lowry, Associate Dean Outreach, Faculty of Art, August 2018
Invited Guest Speaker, Canning Library and Heritage Centre, Friday,February 16, 2018
Invited Guest Speaker, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Friday, July 14, 2017
Invited Guest Speaker, Gallery on Queen, Fredericton, NB Thursday July14, 2017
Invited Panelist by DeanDori Tunstall for Decolonizing Design Education - Lecture by Dr. HermanPi'ikea Clark & Round Table, OCAD University. I was one of four invitedspeakers on the topic of decolonization and education, May 9, 2017
Invited Guest Speaker, “Active Voice” Speaker Series, YorkUniversity, October 2014 and January 2016
Q and A for Sign Languages, loop Gallery, moderated by Carla Garnet,2013
Invited Guest Speaker Art for All Canada Conference, Metro Hall, Toronto,March 2013
Invited Guest Speaker York University Fine Arts, The Body: Liminal toVirtual, March 2011
Invited Guest Speaker Loop Gallery, The White Tortoise of Ch’u(readings and Q+A), 2010
Invited Guest Speaker Canadian Art Gallery Hop, “Trace”, Loop Gallery,September 2007
Invited Guest Speaker York University, The Body and Technology, Fine Arts,January 2007
Invited Guest Speaker Elora Centre for the Arts, Fabrication, February2006
Invited Guest Speaker University of Guelph, Women and Art, Fine ArtsProgram, Guelph, ON March 2001
Invited Guest Speaker Ohio State University, Graduate Program, Columbus,Ohio. February 2000
Invited Guest Speaker I-Land Gallery, Toronto. Fruition. April 1999
Invited Guest Speaker Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, VisitingArtist Lecture, Halifax June 1997
Invited Guest Speaker Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver. dissectionOctober 1997
Invited Guest Speaker Vancouver Art Gallery, topographies: aspects ofrecent BC art. Oct 1996
Invited Guest Speaker Neutral Ground/MacKenzie Art Gallery: Artists-In-The-School.Regina, Piecing, Nov. 1996
Invited Guest Speaker Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver,BC. Intro Painting, March 1996
Invited Guest Speaker Pitt Gallery, Vancouver: Passage. February1996
Public Presentations/Conferences
2024 Keynote Speaker, Prepositioning,Propositioning, and Positioning Art-Education,CSEA/SCÉA Canadian Society for the Education through Art National Conference incollaboration with NSCAD University, Halifax, NS June 27
2023 KeynoteSpeaker, Ontario Women’s Heritage Network AGM, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON,October 20, 2023
Panel Member, AnchoringExperiences of Belonging Through Creative Practice, ONSITE Gallery, TorontoON November 30, 2023
2019 Performing the Institution,College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City
2016 Balancing Act, TeachingExpo, OCAD University, Toronto ON
2016 Transitions, Changes in First YearArt at OCAD University: a deconstruction UAAC University Art Association ofCanada /NSCAD Panel –The State of Foundation Studio, Halifax, NS
2015 Motherhood: Roles,Expectations and Identity, Feminist Art Conference, OCAD University,Toronto ON
2014 To Drawor Not To Draw? From Figure to Body, University Art Association of Canada,OCAD University, Toronto ON
2013 Synesthesia and Art,American Synesthesia Association 11th Annual Conference, OCADUniversity, Toronto ON
Creating Minds for the Future Conference, Seneca @ York April 30-May 2 RepresentedOCAD University for this conference with workshops and presentations about artand design education
2001 Panel Member: Painting onthe Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, ON
Committee and Administration Experience, ProfessionalDevelopment
Academic Administrative Positions
OCAD University Committees:
Jurying:
Other:
Member, Loop Gallery Collective and Head, Art FairCommittee, Toronto, ON 2005 to 2020
Board of Directors Member, A Space Gallery, Toronto,ON 2003-2004
Board Member, OR Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1996-1997
IndigenousCultural Competency Training, OCAD University, 2016
Disability andthe Duty to Accommodate, OCAD University, 2016
Family Sunday Collaborative Painting Workshop, Art Gallery of Ontario,December 8, 2013
Research Assistant, Education Department, Art Galleryof Ontario, Toronto, ON Summer 1998
Rights + Reproductions Officer: Photo/ImagingDepartment, Vancouver Art Gallery 1995-1997
Vancouver Facilitating Committee, Asian HeritageMonth 1996-1997
Founder, Lotusland: Chinese-Canadian artists, writers+ performers Collective, Vancouver, BC 1995-1997
Exhibitions Assistant to the Curator, TechnicalUniversity of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS 1991
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor, Contemporary Issues ofRepresentation (tenure), 2019 to present
OCAD University, Toronto, ON
IAMD 6019, Advanced Drawing: Figurative,Drawing Across Disciplines, Issues of Representation, Painting Studio
Assistant Professor, Contemporary Issues ofRepresentation (tenure-track), 2013 to 2019
OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Thesis, Painting I, Painting II, Issues ofRepresentation, Painting Studio, Drawing Across Disciplines, Painting Studio
Assistant Professor, First Year/Drawing andPainting, Contractually Limited Term Appointment, 2011 -2013
OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Colour Explorations, Drawing I Introduction toPainting, Issues of Representation
Sessional Lecturer, 1999-2011
OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Intermediate Figure Painting, ObservationalPainting, Drawing I, Painting Studio
Sessional Lecturer, 2004-2007
University of Toronto (Scarborough Campus),Toronto ON
Painting 1
Sessional Lecturer, Spring 2004
University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Drawing and Painting, 2nd Year
Sessional Lecturer, Fall 1999
Fundamentals of Design
Georgian College, Barrie, ON
Teaching Assistant 1997-1999
York University, Toronto, ON
Introductory painting