Kuala Lumpur

Lee Weng Choy is president of the Singapore Section of the International Association of Art Critics. He was formerly Artistic Co-Director of The Substation, and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Singapore. Lee has convened and participated in numerous conferences, and done project work with several arts organisations, including the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and National Gallery Singapore. His essays, which discuss contemporary art and culture, Southeast Asia and Singapore, have appeared in such publications as: After the Event: New Perspectives on Art History; Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art; Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture; and Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. He is currently working on a collection of his essays on artists, to be titled, The Address of Art and the Scale of Other Places.