Vancouver, BC Canada b. 1975
Education
University of British Columbia, BFA, 1997
University of British Columbia, MFA, 2000
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 — Full Circle, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2019 — Fugazi, The Teck Gallery (SFU Galleries), Vancouver BC
2017 — Hyakkin Still Life, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 — Capture Photography Festival Billboard Project, Vancouver BC
2016 — FUGAZI, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2016 — Evan Lee and Ben Reeves, Dupont Projects, Toronto ON (two-person)
2014 — Evan Lee, Monte Clark Gallery
2014 — Elders and Roots, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
2010 — Canadian Art Now: True Stories: A Photo Excursion, Art Toronto
2010 — Painting Photography, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008 — Drawn from Memory, Contact 2008, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2007 — Drawing Photography, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2006 — Evan Lee, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2006 — Manual Labour, CSA Space, Vancouver BC
2006 — Captures: Selected Works 1998-2006, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver BC
2003 — Stain, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2002 — 1000 Titles (I) & 1000 Titles (II) with Mohamed Somani, Western Front, Vancouver BC
2001 — Closer than they Appear, Centre A, Vancouver BC
2000 — Photographs, Or Gallery, Vancouver BC
1998 — New Work (with Herman Kao), ACCESS Artist Run Centre, Vancouver BC
1998 — Passive / Aggressive, Anodyne Contemporary, Vancouver BC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 — Under the Sun: In Memory of Andrew Gruft Kids Take Over, Vancouver Art Gallery
2021 — Tyranny, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Teeth, Loan and Trust Company, Consolidated: The Trylowsky Collection, Griffin Projects
2020 — American Ginseng, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (online)
2019 — Make Believe, a Canada Council New Chapter Grant project (as exhibiting artist), Chase Gallery, Halifax
(traveling)
2019 — Typographies of Chance, Trapp Projects, Vancouver BC
2017 — The Pacific, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 — In the Open, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA
2017 — A Spring Exhibition, Centre A, Vancouver BC
2016 — Holding the Pose: Portraits from the Collection, Confederation Centre Gallery, Charlottetown PEI
2016 — New Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC
2015 — Eye To Eye, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Border Cultures: Part Three (security, surveillance), Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON
2015 — Geometry of Knowing, SFU Gallery and Audain Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Views from the Southbank II: Moments, Reflections, Intervals, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2015 — BAC New Media Exhibition, Byron Aceman Collection, Vancouver BC
2015 — Norman MacKenzie House, UBC President’s Residence
2014 — Sobey Art Award, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg MB
2014 — Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komogata Maru, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2014 — TOWER, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2013 — From Nature, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver bC
2013 — The Idiot of Nature, AVHA Library Gallery, UBC, Vancouver BC
2012 — To|From, Centre A, Vancouver BC
2012 — Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2012 — PHANTASMAGORIA, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver BC
2011 — On the Nature of Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops BC
2011 — Once it is a Story it Remains One or Fades, ACCESS Artist Run Centre, Vancouver BC
2011 — Capture, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2011— It’s Over You Win, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 — In Dialogue with Carr: Douglas Coupland, Evan Lee, Liz Magor, Marianne Nicholson, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 — Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 — Restricted, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC / Toronto ON
2009 — The Malcolmson Collection, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver BC
2009 — Playing Homage, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 — Clark & Faria Presents:, Clark & Faria, Toronto ON
2008 — The Constant Search for a Better Way, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008 — The Auto Show, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008 — White, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008 — Portraits, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2007 — Works on Painting: Rebecca Donald, Evan Lee, Ben Reeves, CSA Space, Vancouver BC
2005 — Curb Appeal, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown PEI
2005 — L’huile et L’eau/Oil and Water – Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal IX – Image & Imagination, Le Bain Mathieu/SPAG
2005 — Decay, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2005 — L’huile et L’eau/Oil and Water – Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal XI — Image and Imagination, Le Bain Mathieu
2004 — Reciprocal Influences, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto ON
2004 — At Play, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai
2003 — Out of Sight, curated by Christopher Brayshaw, Presentation House, North Vancouver BC
2002 — A Proposal for an Exhibition, curated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2002 — Binocular Parallax, Consolidated Works, Seattle
2002 — A Weird Science, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2001 — These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2000 — Out of Sight: the Image Beyond the Index, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC
2000 — Masters, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
1998 — New Work, ACCESS Artist Run Center, Vancouver BC
1997 — Sight Lines – New Artists New Work, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver BC
1997 — Configuration: New Art from Vancouver, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver BC
1997 — UBC BFA Exhibition, Frank Tam Gallery and Art Design Gallery, Vancouver BC
Awards
2016 — Mentor, Early Career Development Program, BC Arts Council, BC Arts Council
2014 — Short List, Sobey Art Award
2009 — Long List, Sobey Art Award
2000 — Helen Belkin Memorial Scholarship in Fine Arts
1997 — University of British Columbia Medal, head of Graduating class in Fine Arts
1996 — BC Arts Council Scholarship (Senior Award)
Selected Bibliography
2019 — Witt, Andrew, Artforum Critics’ Pick, October 7
2017 — Witt, Andrew, Splendour Without Diminishment, The Mainlander, June 11
2014 — Evan Lee’s Elders and Roots works around photography, Georgia Straight, May 15, Robin Laurence
2014 — Ruptures in Arrival Marks the 100th Anniversary of Komagata Maru Incident, Georgia Straight, April 30, Robin Laurence
2014 — Contemporary art and the Komogata Maru, Vancouver Sun, April 11 John Mackie
2014 — Komagata Maru exhibit recalls ship that was turned away, Globe and Mail, April 11, Marsha Lederman
2011 — Multiple Benefits: Evan Lee’s Photographic Variety, Border Crossings, no 119, Lee Henderson
2010 — Evan Lee: New Illusions, Canadian Art online, June, Richard Rhodes
2009 — Not Just a Snap, Montecristo Magazine vol 2, Shannon Heth
2008 — Light and Lens Photography in the Digital Age, Focal Press/Elsevier, Oxford, Robert Hirsch
2008 — The Constant Search for a Better Way, Border Crossings, no 108,Katie Bethune-Leaman
2008 — Evan Lee Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canadian Art, vol 25, no 3, Lauren Rosenblum
2008 — The Perception of Things: Recent Drawings and Photographs by Evan Lee, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, January, Charo Neville
2007 — The Vancouver Case, Lapiz International Art Magazine 230/231 Feb/March, Victor del Río
2006 — Evan Lee’s Scanner Pictures, Canadian Art vol 23 no 4, Adam Harrison
2006 — Evan Lee: Captures, Presentation House Gallery, Christopher Brayshaw, Peter Culley, William Wood and Jeff Wall
2006 — Glass and Mirrors, Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Michael Turner
2006 — 1,986,965 (2001 Census) an Intertidal Travelogue, Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Dieter Roelstraete
2006 — Evan Lee: Monte Clark Gallery, Flash Art International, vol 39, no 251
2006 — Evan Lee at Presentation House Gallery, Art on Paper, March/April, Michael Turner
2006 — Evan Lee: Captures, The Georgia Straight, March 2–9, Robin Laurence
2006 — Art Unhiding the Hidden, The Vancouver Sun, February 4, Clint Burnham
2005 — Image & Imagination, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Martha Langford
2004 — Slick Photos Reveal Magic in the Mundane The Georgia Straight, May 1–8, Christopher Brayshaw
2003 — Stain’s a Slick Show, Vancouver Sun, April 16, Mike Harris
2003 — Of Pompoms and Pop Culture, The Georgia Straight, September 11–18, Robin Laurence
2003 — Evan Lee, The Georgia Straight, September 11–18, Robin Laurence
2002 — A Proposal for an Exhibition, Claudia Beck
2002 — Show Chock Full of Talent, The Georgia Straight, December 12–19, Christopher Brayshaw
2002 — Art Develops out of Weird Science of Photography, The Georgia Straight, June 6–13, Christopher Brayshaw
2002 — The Night of A Thousand Bees…”, Last Call, vol 1, no 3, spring, Peter Culley
2001 — These Days, Last Call, vol 1 issue 2, Fall, Maria Roy
2001 — These Days, MIX, vol 27, no 1, Michael Turner
2001 — Onward and Upward, The Globe and Mail, August 13, Sarah Milroy
2000 — Out of Sight: the Image Beyond the Index, Surrey Art Gallery, Christopher Brayshaw
2000 — Masters exhibition catalogue, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
2000 — The Gospel of Pictures: a Look at the Interiority and Worldliness in the Threshold of the Photographs of Evan Lee, Mohamed Somani
2000 — Out of Sight: the Image Beyond the Index, Surry Art Gallery, Christopher Brayshaw
2000 — Evan Lee: Photographs at the OR Gallery, InFlux, March, Matha Gonzalez Palacios
2000 — Masters, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Rosalind Rorke
1998 — New Work, ACCESS Artist Run Center, Alison MacTaggart
1997 — Configuration: New Art from Vancouver, C international contemporary art, Lee James-Jason
1997 — When the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary, The Vancouver Sun, July 24, Michael Scott
1997 — Configuration: New Art from Vancouver, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Christopher Brayshaw
Collections
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown
Burnaby Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Burnaby Art Gallery
Canada Council Art Bank
Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
Simon Fraser University Gallery
Surrey Art Gallery
Vancouver Art Gallery
TD Bank
BMO Bank of Montreal
Sobey Art Collection