Paul Pak-hing Lee, Artist

Paul Lee received his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills in Michigan, an A.B. from Hamilton College in New York and an International Baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales. His video and photography has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, San Antonio and Vladivostok, Russia. In 2004 Paul Lee’s photographs were featured in the exhibition, “The Art of Tennessee” at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville. Lee was the recipient of many grants and awards, including two Rockefeller Foundation Travel Grants and a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship to China. He also received artist residencies from the New York State Council on the Arts and The Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia.

Paul Lee has over twenty years of experience teaching art at the university level. He served as director at the University of Tennessee School of Art from 2002-08. In addition to the University of Tennessee, he has been on the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art, San Antonio Art Institute and Washington State University. Lee served on the Washington State Art Commission from 1998-2002 and was a board member of Artist Trust from 1999-2000. He was elected to serve on the board of the National Council of Art Administrators from 2003 to 2009 and he served as president of NCAA from 2005 to 2006.

To learn more about this artist or to purchase a piece of their work, contact the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville at (8650 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.