ARTIST BIO

DIONNE LEE received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017. She has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, Aperture Foundation, and the School of the International Center of Photography in New York City, and throughout the Bay Area including Aggregate Space, Interface Gallery, LAND AND SEA Gallery, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2019 she was an artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and a finalist for the SFMOMA SECA and San Francisco Artadia awards. Her solo show Running, rigging, wading was an Artforum Magazine’s Critic’s Pick in 2019. Lee currently teaches at Stanford University.

Part of the Digital Exhibition “The Option To…”

Berkeley Art Center presents a series of newly commissioned projects by artists working in video, animation, writing, textiles, photography, and interactive media. As we continue to navigate a world of limited interaction, we commissioned six artists to make pieces that we could present online in some way. There was no thematic requirement, no overarching curatorial framework — just an opportunity to respond to our new shared reality with an idea that they saw as relevant to the continuation or expansion of their practice. For us, the value of these works is in the process of their making as much as in the thing that is made.

Their timing coincides with a yearlong initiative by the Feminist Art Coalition to draw attention to projects informed by various feminisms. New projects will be released every few weeks from October 2020 through February 2021.