Sharon Cheuk wun Lee

Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee (b.1992, born in Hong Kong, lives and works in New York) is a visual artist working with photography and archives to rethink cultural dislocation. She considers image-making in a sculptural and relational approach to override the mechanical eye. Lee concerns history in the poetics of disappearance, memories in the presence of absence, and itinerant belongings in the diasporic worlding. Lee’s works examine colonial history, cultural identity and transcultural experience. The artistic research builds on the absence of Hong Kong—a city of transient, a peripheral culture t...