ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2026
Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee
Drawing | Sculture
From Hong Kong, based in New York City
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee (b. 1992, Hong Kong; lives and works in New York City) received her MFA from Columbia University in 2025. She has presented solo exhibitions at Harper’s Gallery (New York, 2026), Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto, 2023), and Lumenvisum (Hong Kong, 2017). Her work has been exhibited and commissioned by institutions including The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C., 2026), Galerie du Monde (Hong Kong, 2025), Below Grand (New York, 2025), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2022), and The Listening Biennial (Berlin, 2021). She has participated art residencies at Transmitter & Tiger Strikes Asteroid (New York, 2025), Oak Spring Garden Foundation Residency (Virginia, 2025), AIR Taipei (2017) and more. She received the AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts in 2026, WMA Masters Award in 2019 and was a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2023. Her work has been featured in ArtAsiaPacific, Artomity, and Prestige Hong Kong.
I am a Hong Kong-born artist based in New York City. Working between drawing and sculpture, I use engraving to embed absence into a surface. With abrasive tools, I draw on aluminium, translating archival and image-based inquiry into forms shaped by both natural and industrial materials. Light functions as a sculptural medium in my work, activating lines and images that shift with viewers' movement and perception. Through hand-engraving landscape photographs and botanical motifs, I create images in flux that resist fixity, speaking to homeland in transit and itinerant belonging.
My work challenges the boundaries of drawing and resists fixed categorisation. Alongside direct observation, my archival practice shapes how I approach plants and landscapes. Coming from a culture marked by disappearance, I attend to gaps and uncertainties within archives: absences in photographs, traces on the reverse of botanical illustrations, and discrepancies in historical postcards. I use landscape and botany as lenses through which to read history.