Chun-Yi Lee

Background

Lee Chun-Yi was born in 1965 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Education

Lee Chun-Yi lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan till 1970 when his family relocated to Hong Kong, China. While there, Lee was taught painting by Liu Kuo-sung at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988. It was followed by a Master of Fine Arts from Tunghai University nine years later.

Lee Chun-Yi pursued his studies of art at Arizona State University where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 2004. Five years later, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chinese Art History with a dissertation on Daoism and the Ming dynasty painter Shen Zhou.

Career

Fascinated by the Han stelae since his youth, Lee Chun-Yi first practiced painting with a traditional brush, including Western techniques. It was only later in his career when he had an idea to restore the traditions of the ancient stone rubbing applying Chinese seals and ink rubbings for it. Lee builds the visual composition of his portraits, landscapes, and flowers through words per say that turns his works into real symbolic poems where the pressure of the stamp stands for the tone of the statement.

Lee Chun-Yi has shown his artworks nationally and internationally in more than thirty exhibitions, including London, New York City, Toronto, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei.

Nowadays, Lee Chun-Yi teaches at the Department of Fine Arts of National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei.

Achievements

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  Lee Chun-Yi is an accomplished artist who indicated a new, contemporary direction of the ink painting by combining the past and present traditions of the movement.
  
  Lee’s art is acquired by such permanent collections as the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford University, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Harvard University, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Phoenix Art Museum, United States, the Jiangsu Art Museum, the Qingdao Art Museum, China, the National Arts Education Institute, Taipei, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and other public and private collections.
  
  In 2016, the set of three works by Lee Chun-Yi, ‘Mao Triptych: Wan Sui, Wan Shui, Wan Wan Sui’ was purchased for $72,525 at Christie's in Hong Kong.

Works

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  • Vajra Shore

  • Rocky Situation

  • Mao Zedong Landscape

  • Live and Die Together

  • Flowery World: Carnation

  • Rocks, Time and World

  • Heart Shore

  • Visualized Landscape

  • NIght Sunflower

  • Day Rose

  • Untitled

  • Night Lily

  • Untitled

  • Night Rose

  • Untitled

  • Untitled

  • Love and Passion

  • Fallen Stars

  • Twin Flowers

  • Rift

Views

Quotations: "The continual process of renewal and invigoration of Chinese ink painting in the 20th and 21st centuries illustrates the persistence of the deep-rooted Chinese tradition that has confronted enormous cultural challenges from the West... I believe ink and paper are still very good materials which I can incorporate new ideas and techniques without sacrificing my cultural identity as a 21st century Chinese artist."

Connections

mentor:

Liu Guosong