Lee Kit
Lee Kit was born in 1978 in Hong Kong; he lives and works in Taipei.
He obtained an MFA in 2009 at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong and in the same year was one of the finalists for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2009-10.
Lee Kit’s work encompasses a wide array of mediums that include painting, drawing, video, installations and hand-painted cloths. Lee’s signature pastel palette translates and enhances the apparently cryptic but profound investigations and reflections on the habits and traces that shape the practice of everyday Life, with the array of ever-changing emotions that it includes.
Exhibitions
Museums
Biography
Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2025
F, Anticipated Inertia (2 rooms), MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique , Paris
2023
RC, Disco In The Museum -- I'll Take (A), Hong-gah Museum, Taipei City
2022
RC, Retain a desolate face, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei City
2020
China, The gazing eyes won't lie, Massimo De Carlo, VSpace
PRC, The gazing eyes won't lie, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
2019
ROK, Resonance of a sad smile, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2018
I, Linger on, your lit-up shade, Casa Masaccio Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno
J, We used to be more sensitive., Hara Museum, Tokyo
2017
HK, Something you can't leave behind, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
2016
B, A Small Sound in Your Head, S.M.A.K, Gent
Taiwan, The Cube Project Space, Taipei
Taiwan, Everyday Hypothesis, TKG+, Taipei
USA, Hold Your Breath, Dance Slowly, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
UK, He Knows Me, Massimo De Carlo, London
2015
Japan, The Voice Behind Me, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
China, Faithless, Observation Society, Guangzhou
Japan, ShugoArts: Weekend Gallery in Mishuku, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Ireland, Lee Kit, Monther's Tankstation, Dublin
Taiwan, At – Lai Chih Sheng & Lee Kit Duo Exhibition, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipaei
2014
HK, 'You' Curated by M+ and West Kowloon Cultural District, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong
USA, How are things on the West Coast?’, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York
Japan, By the Way, ShugoArts,, Tokyo
2013
Taiwan, Not Swinging, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei
Italy, You (you)., Hong Kong Pavilion, The 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
2012
China, It's Not an Easy Thing, Arrow Factory, Beijing
China, Every Breath You Take, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2011
CDN, Henry (Have You Ever Been So Low?), Western Front, Vancouver
USA, 1,2,3,4…, Lombard Freid Projects, New York
CH, How to Set up an Apartment for Johnny?, Art Statements with Osage Gallery, Art Basel 42, Basel
China, ‘In purity, I silently reach for you.’, SH Contemporary Hot Sport, Shanghai
2010
Japan, Well, That's Just a Chill, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Italy, Hands, MiArt, Milan
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2025
D, His Gaze Has Turned Into Disdain For Those Who Are Well-Intentioned Yet Incapable. (A Quiet Day), Fridericianum, Kassel
2022
I, Balancing Act, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
2021
TW, Housing things, Yo-Chang Art Museum, New Taipei City
D, Carnivalesca What Painting Might Be, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
2019
USA, Honolulu Biennial: To make wrong / right / now, The Hub of HB19, Ward Village, Honolulu
F, 15th Lyon Biennial, Lyon Biennial, Lyon
2018
AM, International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Armenia 2018 (ICAE2018), Cafesjian Center for the Arts; Aram Khachaturian Museum; Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet; Artists Union of Armenia; Hay Art Cultural Center; Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
2017
NEP, The City, My Studio / The City, My Life Curated by Philippe Van Cauteren, Kathmandu Triennale 2017, Kathmandu Valley
2015
I, Jing Shen. The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano
Taiwan, Discordant Harmony, Taipei
RUS, The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art Curated by Li Zhenhua and Biljana Ciric, Ural Biennial, Ekaterinburg
USA, The Great Ephemeral, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
USA, Happy Together, Tina Kim Gallery, New York
United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
2014
UA, Kiev Biennial, Kiev
HK, Ten Million Rooms of Yearning: Sex in Hong Kong, Para/Site, Hong Kong
D, Room Service, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden
2013
China, Duchamp, UCCA, Beijing
HK, A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels, SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story, Para/Site, Hong Kong
USA, Cross-Strait Relations, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons the New School for Design, New York
JP, Recent Works/Early Works, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2012
USA, Printin’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
USA, Home WHERE?, Lombard Freid Projects, New York
United Arab Emirates, Area, Sharjah
United Arab Emirates, What should I do to live in your life?, Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Al Serkal, Arts Area, Sharjah
2010
HK, The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
UK, No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, London
HK, Exhibition Experiment, Experimental Exhibition, JCCAC, Hong Kong
HK, Popping Up, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
USA, The Ungovernables New Museum Triennial, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2009
HK, Charming Experience, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Shanghai, Some Rooms Curated by PRC, Osage
Bibliography
Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2018
Silvestrini, Valentina, Artribune, September/October
D'Aurizio, Michele, Flash Art, October/November
Yasuda, Atsuo, Ocula, November
2016
Blouinartinfo, 20 March
Artforum, May 2016
ArtAsia Pacific, May
ArtNews, 6 June
Chong, Doryun, Parkett
Public collections
Country
Location
Belgium
S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
France
DSL Collection, Paris
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Germany
Daimler Collection, Berlin
Hong Kong
M+ Museum
The Hong Kong Museum of Art
The Netherlands
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
United States of America
Kadist Art Foundation, Los Angeles
The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis