Silkworm 17, 2024

Porcelain, glaze, and 22k gold luster

6 1/2 x 7 x 1 1/2 inches

Fair Market Value: $300

Starting Bid: $210

Buy It Now: $450

AHN LEE (San Francisco, California) is a queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary ceramics practice is a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and archival research on the Cantonese diaspora. Of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Lee explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research, historiography, and critical race and gender theory. Though trained as an academic researcher, Lee aims to create with intuition, using critical history and personal narratives to imagine a current queer Cantonese futurity. Previously, Lee studied at UCLA as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow. Lee is a 2022 MFA graduate of the UC Berkeley Art Practice Department. They are the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award Winner, a 2022 Watershed Ceramics Zenobia Fellow, and a 2022-23 Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellow. In 2024, Lee will be an artist in California Clay at Bedford Gallery. Lee currently works out of and manages ceramics studio Dusted and Blue in San Francisco Chinatown.

Artist-in-Residence, 2024