Adrian Lee works in video, performance and sculpture. Lee identifies the insidious meanings which abound in the visual and verbal material which surrounds us. The trappings of a commercial culture are reworked and re-examined in his darkly humourous practice which explores the processes of communication and persuasion used on micro and international scales.
Adrian Lee recently traveled from Israel across the Mediterranean Sea with artist group Exterritory, producing an installation in Nicosia, Cyprus at the culmination of the voyage. Over the last few years his practice has taken him to Kabul, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Istanbul, and Damascus. He is the co-founder of Artvehicle a London-based contemporary art review website for which he writes the editorials.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Feral C.C.T.V., (Installation for Exterritory) Nicosia, Cyprus
2006 The Professionals, Phoenix Gallery, Leicester
2006 Perfectmother Presents, Pineal Eye, Soho, London
2005 Peculiar Propaganda, Carpe Diem, Osaka, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Natural Language, Vitrine Gallery, London
2010 Tefltastic, (Free School) Five Years, Bethnal Green Library, London
2010 HYBIRD, Vitrine Gallery, London
2010 Agency, The Agency, London
2010 Scapegoat Society, Guest Projects, London
2009 Urge Yourself Under, Five Hundred Dollars, London
2009 Deloitte Ignite 09, The Royal Opera House, London
2009 DNA, The Horse Hospital, London
2009 Olympic Visions, The Nunnery, London
2009 What Line Isn’t That Anyone?, Resonance FM
2009 Magnetism, All Art Now Gallery, Damascus, Syria
2008 Don’t open that door if you can’t close It, V22, London
2008 Scene in the Making, Concrete and Glass, London
2008 Concrete and Glass Launch. Shoreditch House, London
2008 On Produceability, Alti Aylik, Istanbul, (Amsterdam, L.A, Cologne)
2008 Play on Words, Sainsbury’s Centre, Norwich
2008 Unexpected item in the bagging area, Sun and Doves, London
2008 Burning Books, Of Corso, Rotterdam
2008 Suburbia, The Foreign Press Association, London
2007 The Curse of Me, Truman Brewery, London
2007 We like it a lot, Nettie Horn, London
2007 Retro Future, Fulham Palace, London,
2007 Earth, wind and Fire, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2007 Scandal, City Gallery, Leicester
2007 You Can Lead a Horse to Water, Alma Enterprises, London
2006 There is something I’ve been meaning to tell you, SpaceStation 65, London
2006 Painting Ruins, Kabul, Afghanistan
2006 History, New Walk Museum, Leicester
2006 Failure to do so is an offence, Galerie de HFBK, Hamburg
2005 Fleamarket II, Temporary contemporary, Deptford, London.
2004 Our Present Knowledge of the Universe, Hinterconti, Germany
2004 Fleamarket, Temporary contemporary, Deptford, London.
2003 Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London
2003 A-clip Premiere, Kino International, Berlin, Germany. Screen on the Green, Islington, London
PROJECTS
2008 Font designed for Progress Through Typography
ARTICLES
The Sunday Times, Bringing the Theatre to the Crowd, 14 February 2010
i-D, Funny Peculiar, July 2005
Marie Claire (Italia) Logos, June 2004
The Face, Product, No. 87, April 2004
