Ahreum Lee
Originally from Seoul, Ahreum Lee is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Montreal since 2016. She holds a degree in Media Arts from Kaywon University of Art & Design, and an MFA in Intermedia from Concordia University. Her work questions socio-political issues that have been embedded in technologies used every day, such as Google Maps, Predictive Text Algorithms, and AI virtual assistant voices. Through CGI, web-based imagery, performance, sculpture and video, she examines how the power dynamics of contemporary technologies influence our emotions and our conception of reality.
CHEUNG LEE GLOBAL is an artist collective consisting of Joni Cheung (Snack Witch) and Ahreum Lee. Joni Cheung is a Canadian-born Hong Kong-Chinese queer, anglophone woman based in Montréal since 2019. Ahreum Lee is a Korean-born artist living in Montréal since 2016.
CLG is an artist group exploring the complexities of identity in a world where the movement of people, products, money, and ideologies has become fluid. The collective comes together to collaborate on projects that speak to common research interests around transnationalism, migration, and diasporas. These projects use the artists’ personal experiences as individuals who are marginalized by language, gender, and race to define and share the range of aggressions (micro and macro) their communities live with from day-to-day.