Val Lee is an artist and director who creates works including videos, performative installations, and live art. In 2008, Lee founded the Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel Collective, creating works in the fields of visual and performing arts that address themes such as national systems, systemic violence, war, and contemporary mental states. Performers and audiences in Lee’s works experience ephemeral and dreamlike "situations" created through temporal scenarios and action scripts. Lee has created and presented works in the United States, Mexico, Japan, and other countries, collaborating with actors, dancers, and art historians from diverse cultural backgrounds. During this fellowship, Lee will expand the research related to the work recently presented in Japan and will visit Hiroshima, Okinawa, and other parts of Japan to deepen the understanding of the spirit of collaboration in different political, historical, and cultural situations.

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Graduated from the State University of New York with a major in Filmmaking. In 2008, Lee founded the Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel Collective. Lee’s video works have been exhibited at SOMA Art Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, the Vernacular Institute (Mexico), the HKW (Germany), the Grand Palais (France), the Gwangju Biennale (Korea), and the Taiwan Biennial. Live performances have been staged at the Kyoto Art Center, the National Theater in Taiwan, the Taipei Arts Festival, and others. Lee has received support from the Asian Cultural Council, the Hong Foundation, the National Culture and Arts Foundation, C-LAB, and Australia’s Performance Space, and was awarded the Taishin Arts Award for Visual Arts in 2017.