Kate Tessa Lee

Née en 1982 à Curepipe, Ile Maurice * vit et travaille à Prague, République tchèque

résidence n°4 [janvier - mars 2008] CP #12

www.wooloo.org/nomad

I want to define myself as a multi-media artist ; practicing various techniques such as printmaking, photography, video, sound installation, performance and glass-making. A process-based methodology where the medium becomes an extension of the concept. In my pursuit to bridge the boundaries between life and art, I am interested by the interplay between natural and artificial.

My present work is concerned with documenting and translating mundane personal events in a poetic and symbolic way. Merging notions of self-portraiture, playful voyeurism, performance and fictional narration, I am interested in magnifying the insignificant and extracting the rhythmic complexity that structures the everyday. I thus “collect” gestures, breaths, walking patterns, body scans that I decode, simplify and transform into melodies, rhythmic topographies, movement patterns, cyclic calendars or animated charts.

dossier pdf [1,8 Mo]

CV

education
2001-2005 RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD), PROVIDENCE RI USA Bachelor of Fine Arts, Glass
2004 VYSOKÀ SKOLA UMELECKO PRUMYSLOVÀ V PRAZE (VSUP), PRAGUE CZ Spring Semester Exchange Program, Atelier of Glass and Architecture
2002-2005 BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE RI USA Liberal Art Studies
2005 PUKEBERG SCHOOL OF DESIGN AT KALMAR UNIVERSITY, NYBRO SWEDEN Glass Design Semester

awards
2006
• ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Appelboom, La Pommerie Haute-Correze France
• ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee Belgium
2004
• YOUNG ARTIST ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP, Czech Republic
Awarded by M.E.C.C.A, Middle European Colony of Contemporary Arts
2001
PROFESSOR WILLIAM CAREY POLAND AND CLARA HARKNESS POLAND MEMORIAL, United States of America
Prized for academic excellence
1999
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE NATIONAL ART COMPETITION, Mauritius
Received for outstanding artistic achievement

exhibitions
2007
• ZAPPING, GRAFISCH ATELIER DAGLITCH, STRIP S GALLERY EINDHOVEN, NL
Eight selected artists invited to work on the notion of cross-over between multi-media and graphics.
• LAB U, NODY GALLERY, PRAGUE, CZ
Nine artists invited to investigate the theme of handicraft, self-made, ready-made or feticism related to today’s fashion aesthetic code and representation.
2006
• PROCES, 1ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY
PROCESS IN CONTEMPORARY ART, PRAZSKA TRIZNICE PRAGUE, CZ
• NYBRO GLASDESIGN ELEVARBETEN, BOVERKETS KONSTSEKTION, KARLSKRONA SE
2005
• VSUP-RISD, GALLERY OF ACADEMY OF APPLIED ARTS OF PRAGUE, CZ
• INVITATIONAL SENIOR SHOW, WOODS GERRY GALLERY, RISD RI
• DISCRETE PROJECTS, SOL GALLERY, OLNEYVILLE RI, USA Emerging RISD artists group show
2004
• NEW GLASS, KAMENICKY SENOV GLASS MUSEUM, KAMENICKY SENOV, CZ
Juried exhibition promoting contemporary approaches to glass-making
2001
• EXPRESSIVE MARK-MAKING, WATERMAN GALLERY, PROVIDENCE RI USA
Foundation Studies selected group exhibition

collection
2004 KAMENICKY SENOV GLASS MUSEUM, KAMENICKY SENOV, CZ
“Dobrou chut” project held in the Contemporary Glass Collection