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Weng Choy Lee

Lee Weng-Choy is an art critic based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is also the president of the Singapore Section of the International Association of Art Critics. Lee has worked with various arts organisations, including ILHAM Gallery and A+ Works of Art, both in KL, and the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and National Gallery Singapore. He has taught at several institutions, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For nearly ten years, he was Artistic Co-Director of The Substation in Singapore. In recent years, he has focused on facilitating writing workshops, which he’s done in cities from Brisbane to Hong Kong, London, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Saigon and Singapore. His essays have appeared in journals such as Afterall, and anthologies such as Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, and Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. He is very, very slowly working on a collection of his essays on artists, to be titled, The Address of Art and the Scale of Other Places