Jeanette G. Lee

Biography

Jeanette is a Vancouver-born artist whose family settled in B.C. over 100 years ago. Her love of the arts started at an early age through studying music and completing her A.R.C.T (Associateship from the Royal Conservatory of Music), University of Toronto. She completed her B.Arts Education at UBC and sent to further complete a post graduate diploma in 1991 at the Arts Students League in New York, where she majored in Sculpture.


Jeanette has held artist residencies at the New York Sculpture Centre twice and at the Studio School of the Aegean in Greece. While living in New York, Jeanette won several art awards including the Merit awards for drawing and sculpture at the ASL, the Nessa Cohen Memorial Scholarship, the Samuel May Rudin Foundation Award and the Kimon Nicolaides Drawing scholarship.


She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Switzerland and Vancouver and her works are part of the permanent collections of the Fukuyama Museum of Art in Japan, the ASL of New York, the Sol LeWitt Collection in Connecticut and the City of Richmond.


For the past few years, Jeanette has been involved in creating private and public art projects.