Tim Lee

Artist Cv

Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, Tim Lee's work both replicates and reimagines seminal moments in art history and popular culture. With sources that range from Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin, Dan Graham, Public Enemy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Ted Williams, Lee suggestively interpellates himself with the history of his subjects by loosely reconstructing specific works associated with their creators, and in so doing, complicates our knowledge of these histories while mapping out an extended timeline that travels from the historical past to the imagined future.

Tim Lee lives and works in Vancouver

www.teel.ca

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Artist Contact

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Artist News

Biennale of Sydney
8 June – 7 September 2008
Biennale of Sydney

Tim Lee
CCA Wattis, San Francisco
9 January – 2 February 2008
CCA Wattis

Remakes, Variations (1741-2049)
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
16 September 2007 – 13 January 2008
Presentation House Gallery

Artist Press

When the Serious is Tinted with Humor, it Makes a Nicer Color.
A conversation with Tim Lee by Jens Hoffmann - April 21, 2004
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Artist Exhibitions

Tim Lee April 7 - May 6, 2006
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'I really should…' July 13 - August 27, 2005
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Artist Images

<i>Retrospective, Public Enemy, 1988-91, </i>2006
2-channel video installation: 2 monitors and 2 DVD players with synchronisation unit
Dimensions variable

Retrospective, Public Enemy, 1988-91, 2006 2-channel video installation: 2 monitors and 2 DVD players with synchronisation unit Dimensions variable

Party for Your Right to Fight, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006
2-sided mirror with aluminium steel frame
213.5 x 152.4 cm

<i>Party for Your Right to Fight, Public Enemy, 1988, </i>2006
2-sided mirror with aluminium steel frame
213.5 x 152.4 cm

Party for Your Right to Fight, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006 2-sided mirror with aluminium steel frame 213.5 x 152.4 cm

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006
C-Print
152.5 x 198 cm

<i>It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, </i>2006
C-Print
152.5 x 198 cm

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006 C-Print 152.5 x 198 cm

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006
Vinyl record, steel wire, wood in plexiglass vitrine
Dimensions variable

<i>It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, </i>2006
Vinyl record, steel wire, wood in plexiglass vitrine
Dimensions variable

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988, 2006 Vinyl record, steel wire, wood in plexiglass vitrine Dimensions variable

Untitled (James Osterberg, 1970), 2006
C-Print
183 x 213 cm

<i>Untitled (James Osterberg, 1970),</i> 2006
C-Print
183 x 213 cm

Untitled (James Osterberg, 1970), 2006 C-Print 183 x 213 cm

The Jerk, Carl Reiner, 1979, 2004
Framed C-Print
210 x 182 cm

The Jerk, Carl Reiner, 1979, 2004 Framed C-Print 210 x 182 cm

Untitled (Neil Young, 1969), 2004
C-Print
129 x 160 x 8 cm

Untitled (Neil Young, 1969), 2004 C-Print 129 x 160 x 8 cm

Funny Face, George and Ira Gershwin, 1933, 2002
2 Channel DVD installation
Dimensions variable

<i>Funny Face, George and Ira Gershwin, 1933, </i>2002
2 Channel DVD installation
Dimensions variable

Funny Face, George and Ira Gershwin, 1933, 2002 2 Channel DVD installation Dimensions variable