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Known as Lee Xiaojing in Chinese, born in Chunking, China (1945) and raised in Taiwan. He moved to United States after he received his BFA in painting from College of Chinese Culture. Then he got his MA degree majored in Photography and Film from Philadelphia College of Art and worked as an Art Director in New York until the late seventies, at which point he changed to photography as a career. Within one and a half decades, he went through different stages in fashion, people to still life collage. Since 1993, computer technology allowed him to combine his various drawing, photographic and fine art skills in one medium.
Daniel Lees work has been shown internationally in solo exhibitions at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York (1993 ~ 2009), the East Gallery, Taipei (2005 ~ 2010), Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2004, 2008), CCB Center, Lisbon (1999), both of his "108 Windows" and "Origin" in video installation have been shown in the 2003 Biennale of Venice, and featured in both Arts Electronica 2005, Linz, Austria and Biennale of Electronic Art in Perth, Australia (2007), a solo exhibition at San Antonio Museum of Art (2011) and included in dOCUMENTA 13, Germany (2012).
His photographs are included in public and private collections such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Shanghai Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Taiwan; the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts; Landes Museum in Linz, Austria; Busan Museum of Art, Korea, Wellcome Collection, London, White Rabbit Collection, Australia, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, and Documenta, Kassel, Germany, etc.
Lee has lectured at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University (2005), Maryland Institute College of Art (1997), Ithaca College, New York (1998); the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York (1990); the Beijing Central Art Institute (1986) and the Art School of Shanghai University (1984).
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