James Ming–Hsueh Lee was born in 1978 in Taiwan. He currently works and lives in Taipei. He is the 2005 Taipei Arts Award First Prize winner and is rewarded with his Ph.D in 2013 from Loughborough University, UK. He has rich experience in exhibitions both at home and abroad. Recently, selected exhibitions include “Dian……Dian”(2021) solo exhibition in Hong-Gah Museum, “In the Sunshine of the Relaxed Majorities-Ming-Hsueh Lee’s solo exhibition” (2019) in Taipei Fine Arts Museum, “Things Wholesale” (2017) solo exhibition in Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, “2016 Taipei Biennial” (2016) and “The Testimony of Food: Ideas and Food” (2015) in Taipei Fine Arts Museum, “RIVER— The Way of Living in Transition Asia Contemporary Art Links” (2016) in Gwangju Museum of Art, “Other Landscapes” (2012) in La Rotonde Place Stalingrad in Paris.
James Ming-Hsueh Lee’s works often center on the objects found in the stores. He searches for alternative meanings in relation to art contexts. With a penetrating sense of humor, he reexamines and reflects upon the habitual understanding of ‘things’ indoctrinated by the media, education and society. Through reversing the usage of the objects, transforming their appearances or people’s perceptions of them, the artist is able to offer refreshing and amusing interpretations, creating relaxing feeling to asset other possibilities for the exploration of contemporary art.
