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Taryn Lee is an artist, art historian, and educator based on Tongva land who is committed to creating transformative artistic encounters. Lee’s interdisciplinary practice explores how memories, emotions, and cultural histories become embedded within bodies, objects, and materials. Working primarily across performance, video, installation, and social practice, she investigates the relationships between sensation, consumption, care, and belonging.
Drawing from research in East Asian performance histories, pyschology, and ecological thought, Lee examines how everyday materials carry traces of personal and collective experience. Her work often engages tensions between intimacy and distance, nourishment and danger, preservation and waste, inviting audiences to reconsider their relationships to the objects and systems that shape daily life.
EDUCATION
University of California Irvine, Master of Art History, 2019-2020
Getty Consortium Seminar, Art & Ecology, Winter 2020
University of California Irvine, Bachelors of Arts, 2016-2019
Majors: Studio Arts & Art History (Cum Laude)
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
PoNJA-GenKon Wikipedia Initiative, In collaboration with Asia Archive in America, 2022-2023
The Getty Research Institute’s All Paper Seminar, Hosted by the Benton Museum of Art, 2022
Virginia H. Laddey Endowed Fellowship in Art History, University of California, Irvine, 2019
Marjorie G. Reday Outstanding Art History Major Scholarship, University of California, Irvine, 2019
Chancellor’s Award of Distinction, University of California, Irvine, 2019
EXHIBITIONS
Group
July, 2025, Art in Odd Places: VOICE, West Hollywood
June, 2023, AAPI Celebration, bG Gallery
July, 2021, Ultra!, Torrance Art Museum Parking Lot
April, 2019, 15th Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, UC Irvine UAG Gallery
April 2019, Art History Undergraduate Association, Thresholds, UC Irvine Viewpoint Gallery
April , 2018, 14th Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, UC Irvine UAG Gallery
Public Projects
September, 2023, Banned Book Week, River of Knowledge & Books are a Gift, Downey City Library
November, 2018, My PET (Our PET), UCI Ring Road
Curatorial Assistant
January 2021, LADIES’ ROOM LA, GARDEN, Virtual Exhibition
CONFERENCES
Fluid Borders, Visual Studies Graduate Conference, May 1, 2020. Paper: Contaminated Systems in Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s Memorial Project Waterfield: The Story of the Stars
PUBLICATIONS
"Fool's Play: Post-Colonial Performance Art of The Fourth Group." Review of Japanese Culture and Society 36 (2024): 68-92. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/roj.2024.a978200.
Wikipedia Contributions
The Fourth Group, Space and Time, Reality and Utterance, Minjung art, Park Young Sook, Yeesookyung, Chung Chang Sup, Mukrimhoe, Union Exhibition of Korean Young Artists, Jung Kang-ja, Korean Avant-Garde Association, The Fourth Group, Kang Kuk-jin