Born in 1984, Hong Kong, China
Lives and works in Hong Kong, China
EDUCATION
2009
MFA Painting (with honours), Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA
2006
BFA Painting, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Spiral Diaries, Klemm's, Berlin, Germany
2023
Silica Meadows, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2022
Antinomies, Klemm's, Berlin, Germany
2021
Pallet in Repose (Resurfacer), Art Basel Hong Kong, Discoveries Section, Hong Kong, China (presented by Capsule Shanghai)
2019
Core Sample, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Heidi Lau & Leelee Chan: Chrysalis Spectre, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2023
Leelee Chan & Shuyi Cao: Strange Strangers, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Roots Know More, He Art Museum, Foshan, China
From Points to Lines – The Micro Art Biennale, Blunt Society, Shanghai, China
Capsule Filling, Capsule, Hong Kong, China (curated by Zoie Yung)
2024
Unfolding, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany
Fata Morgana, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany
Hovering, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
An Atlas of the Difficult World, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing, China
Weaving in Entanglement Mending in Piercing, 69 Art Campus, Beijing, China (curated by Leo Li Chen)
Breathing with the World, Trieste International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Italy
Tendering, PHD Group, Hong Kong, China
2023
High Season, Encounter Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Atlas of Affinities: Vol. 2, Scores for Movement, Hua International, Berlin, Germany
Joan Miró – The Poetry of Everyday Life, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Splendor of the Sun, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, China
2022
Breaching Sanctum, Design Trust Feature Grant, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China
2021
Up Close - Hollywood Road II, Hong Kong, China
Poetic Heritage, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China
Liquid Ground, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
2020
Organs Underground, M Woods Museum x Plate Space, Beijing, China
KölnSkulptur #10, curated by Tobias Berger, Skulpturen Park Köln, Cologne,
Germany
Up close - Hollywood Road, Gallery 149 and Bonnie Lai Antiquities, Hong Kong, China
How Do We Begin: X Museum Triennial 1st Edition, X Museum, Beijing, China
2019
Holy Mosses, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Notes from Pallet Town, UCCA Dune, Anraya Gold Coast, Beidaihe, China
Hysteresis, Downs & Ross, New York, USA
Scaffolds of Meaning, Mine Project, Hong Kong, China
Artists' Night, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China
The Pulse of Nature - Lung Fu Shan, Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre, Hong Kong, China
2018
Fan Death in Bedroom, Bedroom, Hong Kong, China
Rehearsal, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, China
2017
The Preservationists, Duddell's, Hong Kong, China
Debris Constellation, Neptune Project Space, Hong Kong, China
2015
Sluice Art Fair, The Dorado Project, London, UK
2014
JustMAD Emerging Art Fair, The Dorado Project, Madrid, Spain
Overseasoned Part Deux, Artemis Project Space, York, UK
2013
Nocturnes, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Summer Smoker Series, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Future Folk, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, New York, USA
That Summer Feeling, Sweatshop Studio, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2012
Stones, Bones and Relics, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lines and Shapes, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2011
Faraway Neighbor, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York, USA (catalogue)
2010
The Drawing Show, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2009
Geography of Imagination, curated by Phong Bui, New York, USA
Second-year Graduate Selection, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
RISD MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Rhode Island, USA
2008
Graduate Painting Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2007
The Discontented Pendulum, G2 Gallery Space, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2006
BFA Graduate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Forth Season Show, Three Seasons Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US
Fort Morgan: One and Only, Fort Morgan, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2005
Clune Construction, Nippon Steel, Inc, Chicago, Illinois (catalogue), USA
2004
Exquisite Piknik, Doubner Space, Prague, Czech Republic
COMMISSIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
2025
Nestling Bi, CLP Group, CLP Headquarters, Hong Kong
2023
Blindfold Receptor (Jewel – Jade, Rose, Ink), Saint Laurent flagship stores in Paris, Milan, Florence, Zurich, London, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Dubai, Costa Mesa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City
COLLECTIONS
2023
Saint Laurent Collection, Paris
Long Museum, Shanghai
UBS Art Collection, Hong Kong
2022
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco
2020
Skulpturen Park Köln, Germany
2019
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Hong Kong
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023
“Conversation On the Built and the Demolished with Leelee Chan, Dr. Cecilia L. Chu, Charlotte Lafont-Hugo and Charles Lai”. In: Natasza Minasiewicz (Ed.). Thank You, Next: The Heritage of Disappearance in Hong Kong’s Architecture, pp. 43-51.
2022
“Leelee Chan Portrait Practice”. In: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Cao Dan (Eds.). Do It - Co-habitats, 2022 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture Shenzhen, pp. 23-36.
Leelee Chan’s Art Journey–Tokens From Time. Published by Hatje Cantz.
2019
Chan Leelee and Tsang Eunice. 2019. Primal Matter. Artist Book for the occasion of Core Sample Solo Exhibition in Capsule Shanghai.
Chan Leelee. 2019. “Imaginary Boundary”, in: Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre. The Pulse of Nature - Mid Levels West. Published by MCCM Creations, pp. 134-147.
HONORS
2025
Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, Umbria, Italy
2020
BMW Art Journey Award
2013
Short-listed for Van Lier Visual Artist Fellowship, Wave Hill, New York
2007
MFA Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island
2006
BFA Graduating Fellowship Award Recipient, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
