Lee Wen was a Singapore-based performance artist who shaped the development of performance art in Asia.
11 Facts About Lee Wen
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Lee Wen worked on the notion of identity, ethnicity, freedom, and the individual's relationship to communities and the environment.
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Lee Wen studied in the now defunct Kim Keat Primary School and Raffles Institution.
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Lee Wen expressed himself with both painting and various non-traditional media, being influenced by performance artist Tang Da Wu and other experimental artists Amanda Heng and Vincent Leow from The Artists Village.
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Lee Wen went on to develop the Yellow Man persona which gained him his first recognition in the arts community.
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In 2003, Lee Wen spearheaded The Future of Imagination, international performance art festival at The Substation and at the Sculpture Square in 2004, featuring international performance artists such as Alastair MacLennan from Northern Ireland, Irma Optimist from Finland, and Marilyn Arsem from USA.
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Lee Wen saw the value of having an annual gathering of international artists in Singapore, to share a continuing interest in the cultural constructs of identity in the global situation and current trends of contemporary art practice, through live performances and discussion forms.
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Lee Wen taught art at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and at his alma-mater back home in Singapore.
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Lee Wen had taught workshops at Hanoi University of Fine Arts, University of Ulster, UK, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, and Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
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In 2005, Lee Wen was presented with the Cultural Medallion, the highest cultural award in Singapore, for his contributions to the development of local contemporary art scene.
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In 2015, Lee Wen was shortlisted for the Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art, which honors a Southeast Asian artist or curator whose work is actively committed to advocating freedom.