Editing JJ Lee (Painter)

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JJ Lee has a BFA from the NSCAD University (1992) and an MFA from York University (1999). A recipient of many awards for her work, Lee is also featured in the Magenta Foundation’s Carte Blanche Volume II: Painting, a survey of contemporary Canadian painters. She currently lives and works in Toronto where she teaches at the OCAD University.{{From|url http://loopgallery.blogspot.ca/2011/01/interview-with-artist-jj-lee.html}}
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JJ Lee, born and raised in Halifax, NS, is the daughter of Chinese and Hong Kong immigrants. Through mixed-media paintings and drawing installations, Lee explores the hyphen between identities and representations that result from colonization and immigration. For over 30 years, she has exhibited in public institutions and artist-run centers across the country, winning multiple grants and awards both for her individual work and The Drawing Board collective. Her artwork is in both Canadian and American public and private collections. Recently, her highly lauded exhibition, "In My Yesterday" at the Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, NS, traces her family's multi-generational emigration from China to the Maritimes. Lee won the top award Journalistic Excellence (Print Category) from the Canadian Ethnic Media Association and Silver for One-of-a-Kind Storytelling from the National Magazine Awards for her work featured in Canada’s History Magazine in 2023. 
JJ Lee is a tenured Associate Professor, Contemporary Issues of Representation at OCAD University. In 2022, she received OCAD University’s Price Teaching Excellence Award. She currently is Chair, Drawing and Painting. She is represented by Prow Gallery in Halifax, NS, and Gallery on Queen in Fredericton, NB.