"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.


Links

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/

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-60-foot-installation-turns-chinese-canadian-cuisine-into-a-monumental-metaphor-1.4570355

http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenovascotian/1551741-artist-explores-how-chinese-and-canadian-cultures-meet-and-mix#

http://www.kingscountynews.ca/living/None/cannings-ross-creek-arts-centre-celebrates-chinese-new-year-187875/


CV:JJ LEE

187 Pearson Avenue, Toronto ONM6R 1G4  www.jjlee.ca 416.705.3507


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, 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, 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

  • Chair, Drawing and Painting, 2024-2027
  • Chair,First Year Art, OCAD University 2013 to 2016
  • ActingChair, Drawing and Painting, OCAD University, 2023-202

OCAD University Committees:

  • IAMD IQAP Program Committee
  • IAMD Admissions Committee
  • Faculty Council, Faculty of Art
  • Employee Equity Committee
  • ODESI Equity Advisory Committee
  • Respectful Work and Learning Policy Review
  • CICOF Curriculum and Innovation Committee
  • DRPT Curriculum Committee
  • Academic Emergency Response Committee 2020-2021
  • Decolonizing Studio Education Committee with Nadia McLaren
  • Peer Representative, Faculty of Art
  • Art and Social Change Minor,2011 to 2013
  • First Year StreamingCurriculum Development, 2011 to 2016
  • Cross-Disciplinary Thesis,2011 to 2012
  • Writingand ESL, 2008
  • Curriculum Leader, Drawing Across Disciplines 2016 -2017
  • CurriculumLeader, DRPT1C01  Intro Painting.,2012 to 2013
  • OCADFA OCAD Faculty Association Board
  • Director-At-Large
  • Grievance Committee
  • Chair, Communications Committee
  • Professional AdvisoryCommittee, Sheridan 2017 to present.
  • External Reviewer, Sheridan College, 2017

Jurying:

  • Juror,History + Art = Peace, Alpha Education, August 2015
  • Juror,BLG Diversity and Equity Award, OCAD University, 2014
  • Juror,Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career, December 2013
  • Juror: Painting, Toronto Outdoor Art Show, Toronto, ON2009
  • Arts Jury Member Ottawa, Canada Council, Ottawa, ONNov. 1997,1999, 2004
  • Juror, Painting Applications, Toronto Outdoor ArtShow, Toronto, ON 2004
  • Mid-Career and Senior Jury Member, Toronto ArtsCouncil, Toronto, ON 2007

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


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