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Email: gabriel.lee.design@gmail.com
Instagram: @studiocatgut
I'm a multidisciplinary designer with over ten years' experience in the social justice field. I focus on research reports, working closely with experts to understand & translate their expertise into compelling visuals under a clear system. I enjoy storytelling & complementing stories with data visualization, & often incorporate illustration in my work.
I've made work for Poetic Justice Group at MIT Media Lab, Define American, Center for Reproductive Rights, Immigration Equality, ViiV Healthcare, Healthy Materials Lab, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, & the National LGBTQ Task Force, among others.
Gabriel Lee's work explores language, embodiment, and queer & transgender relationality. They are interested in what happens when deeply intimate, human subject matter is processed and transmitted through machines. Their objects & articulate machines generate and convey feelings of disgust, rage, monstrousness, alienation, loneliness, vulnerability, obsession, curiosity, solidarity, & connection.
They use computational repetition and lists to evoke rituals and patterns and often incorporate text and wordplay, examining language as an act of creation. They house electronics such as touch & proximity sensors, speakers & printers, and motors in organic, uncanny forms to make them come alive. Their recent artworks are primarily in interactive & non-interactive sculpture and text with image.
2024 M.F.A Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design | The New School – New York, NY
2013 B.A Design | Media Arts, UCLA School of Arts & Architecture – Los Angeles, CA
2023 Corpus, Artshack Gallery (now Keepsake Gallery) – Brooklyn, NY
2024 Brooklyn Art Book Fair, Recess, Endless Editions — Brooklyn, NY
2024 Spiraling Ashore, The New School — New York, NY
2023 Follow the Machine, Grace Exhibition Space, Pixelmouth — New York, NY
2021 B.Y.O.G. (Build Your Own God) And Other Ideas for a Kinder World, Artshack Gallery (now Keepsake Gallery) – Brooklyn, NY
2020 The Body is a Horror, Bullet Space, ABC No Rio – New York, NY
2020 Small Works for Big Change, Sylvia Rivera Law Project – New York, NY
2019 Gender Unbound Art Fest, Blue Genie Art Bazaar – Austin, TX
2019 Moss Party’s Summer Share and Tell, Moss Party/Rosalia’s Cafe – Brooklyn, NY
2019 Show All Things Show, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), New York University – New York, NY
2018 Spring Play Game Expo, Playcrafting NYC/Microsoft – New York, NY
2017 Small Works for Big Change, Participant Inc., Sylvia Rivera Law Project – New York, NY
2016 Small Works for Big Change, Sylvia Rivera Law Project – New York, NY
2013 Diffraction, UCLA Senior Exhibition, UCLA New Wight Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
2013 UV/UG, UCLA Undergraduate Exhibition, UCLA New Wight Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
2012 AND, UCLA Undergraduate Exhibition, UCLA New Wight Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
2011 OFFWORLD, UCLA Undergraduate Exhibition, UCLA New Wight Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Artist-in-Residence, Artshack Brooklyn
Honorable Mention, Creative Use of Quantum Technology in Visual Arts, Quantum Design Jam, IBM Quantum & Parsons School of Design | The New School
Hrag Vartanian, Hakim Bishara, Valentina Di Liscia and Billie Anania, Your Concise New York Art Guide for February 2023, Hyperallergic, January 31, 2023
Sarah Fensom, Rewriting the Code, re:D (Regarding Design), 2023