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Lee Mok Yee (b. 1988, Klang, Malaysia) is an artist currently based in Kuala Lumpur. He graduated from the Dasein Academy of Art in Kuala Lumpur and later from the Fine Art programme at the University of London in Middlesex. Lee’s work is process-oriented and often interrogates the material aspect in art-making. He frequently works with readymade or store-bought objects, rearranging these materials as an act of interrogation against uniformity, pushing against the boundaries of function in mass production. In the re/arranging, he questions the idea of moving within structures as an exploration of change and its futilities.

Lee’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally, in Germany, London, Singapore, and South Korea. His most recent solo exhibition was Lee Mok Yee: The Pyramid Series (2023) at Rissim Contemporary, KL. Other notable exhibitions include Rudiments (duo with Mark Tan) 2022 at Temu House, KL, and A Rhetorical Garden (2021) at Richard Koh Fine Art, KL. He was also awarded the Gold prize of the UOB Painting of the Year award in 2021. A large part of Lee’s practice focuses on collaborative projects and exchange through art residencies. He recently completed a residency in Arles, France, in 2022, under the auspices of Alliance française in Malaysia. In 2021, he was a grantee of the British Council Connections through Culture grant, which allowed him to have an online residency with British artist, Laura Porter. In the same year, he initiated a temporary collective called “Labour and Weight” with local art and cultural workers Okui Lala, Yeo Lyle, and Koe Cheng Gaik. The project was funded by CENDANA’s Art in the City Public Art Commissioning Project and later exhibited at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya in 2023.

Lee Mok Yee

leemokyee88@gmail.com

Live in KL, Malaysia

Solo Exhibition 

 

2023 One Zero, Temu House, Kuala Lumpur 

The Pyramid Series, Rissim Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

2022 Une Esquisse Céleste, Galerie Huit Arles, France  

2021 A Rhetorical Garden, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur 

2019 Superstition II (In Conjunction with GTF 2019), George Town, Pulau Pinang 

2013 Superstition, Studio at Straits, Pulau Penang 
2012 Scepticism is a Virtue, Artseni Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

  

Group Exhibitions 

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2024 

Folded Lines, UK-Malaysian Artist group exhibition, the Back Room KL, Kuala Lumpur 

I am a Prayer, WLG Young Incubator Program with Ryan Naga, Wei Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

 

2023 

Mystique Song ‘神秘之歌‘ group exhibition, Eslite Bookstore Malaysia 

1000 Tiny Artworks Group Exhibition, the Back Room KL, Kuala Lumpur 

Indonesia Contemporary Art & Design (ICAD), Jakarta, Indonesia 

Realpolitik, group exhibition, Cult Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

Aluminati, group exhibition, Dasein Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

 

2022 

Rudiments by Lee Mok Yee & Mark Tan, Temu House, Kuala Lumpur 

Mise En Place, duo show with Diana Hajji, Arles, France 

Turun Tanah, Galeri Puteh, Kuala Lumpur

Labour & Weight: A Travelling Exhibition, Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya 2021 

 

2021 

Material Matters, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, UK 

Labour & Weight: A Travelling Exhibition, Rumah Hai Kao, Batu Pahat 

Labour & Weight: A Travelling Exhibition, Hokkien Association, Pulau Pangkor 

  

2020 

The Echo Boomers,  Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur 

Warganegara, Segaris Art Center, Kuala Lumpur 

Embodiment, Group Exhibition, Taksu Galleries, Singapore 

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2019 

Locals Only, Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

Bakat Muda Sezaman 2019 (Young Contemporaries 2019), National Visual Arts Gallery, KL 

Catalyst, HOM Art Trans, Kuala Lumpur 

Pangkor Island Festival 2019, Pulau Pangkor 

SHIFT, White Box Publika, Kuala Lumpur 

Reinterpreting Minimalism, Segaris art center, Kuala Lumpur 

  

2018 
The Horizon is Just an Illusion: New Thoughts on Landscape, Our Art Projects, Kuala Lumpur 
Echoes of Possibilities, Core Design Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

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2017 

Barat East, Chandan Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

This is Where We Meet, duo show with Liew Kwai Fei,  Our Art Projects, Kuala Lumpur 

  

2016 

Young Malaysian Artists: New Object(ion) III Exhibition, Petronas Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

LOOK TO SEE, Shalini Ganendra Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur 

 
2015 
Young and Blooming, China House, Pulau Pinang 
Presence, Gallery@Starhill, Kuala Lumpur 
March Show, G13 Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 
BioDATA, Artseni Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 
Malaysia-Korea Asia Art Awards Invitation Exchange Exhibition 2015, OACA, Kuala Lumpur 
 
2014 
STATE, Middlesex University, London 
PAUSE, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London 

 

2013 
Snake year Art Exhibition, OACA, Kuala Lumpur 
Nordart International Art Exhibition, Rendsburg, Germany 
TIGA, Three young contemporary artist exhibition, Gehriq Gallery, Pulau Pinang 

 
2012 
Asia Invitation Art Exhibition, The Seoul Museum of Art, Korea 
Nordart International Art Exhibition, Rendsburg, Germany 

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2010 

Breakthrough Exhibition, The Gallery @ Starhill, KL PAC and Dasein Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 

NKOTB, Threesixty Art Development Studio, Kuala Lumpur 

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Residencies 

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2022 Rimbun Dahan, Rimbun Dahan International Residency, Kuang, Malaysia (Mar-May) 

Arles Penang Cross Residency, Arles, France (Aug-Oct) 

2021 Reciprocal Space, Online Residency with British Artist, Laura Porter, funded by British Council  

2019 INXO International Artist Residency Program 2019, Kluang, Malaysia (Aug) 

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Projects & Talks  

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2023 

Unreel Pangkor: Participatory Design and Built project, collaboration project with Colllab, Platz Studio, Hello Pangkor, School of Architecture & Built Environment (SABE) UCSI.    

‘Space, Spectator and Materials’ Artist Talk at Eslite Bookstore, Kuala Lumpur 

 

2022 

Open Studio, Kuala Lumpur 

Online Sharing Session, invited by Yuye Ge (迂野阁)  

Resonance | Rudiments: Artist exchange by Lee Mok Yee & Mark Tan, moderated by Sarah Merican  

Labour & Weight: A Travelling Exhibition, Collaboration Project with Okui Lala, Yeo Lyle, Koe Cheng Gaik, (Invited and commissioned by Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya) 

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2021 

Labour & Weight: A Travelling Exhibition, Collaboration Project with Okui Lala, Yeo Lyle, Koe Cheng Gaik 

Speaker in 'On Material: Artist in Conversation' with Laura Porter, Sharon Haward, Kim Ng, Online, UK/ Malaysia 

Speaker in 'On Object: Artist in Conversation' with Laura Porter, Lorna Johnson, Tan Kian Ming, Online, UK/ Malaysia 

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2019 

Pangkor Island Festival 2019, Pulau Pangkor 

George Town Festival 2019, George Town, Pulau Pinang 

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2017 

Set Designer in Dong Di Yin 动地吟 , DPAC, Petaling Jaya 

Set Designer in Musicsynthesis 光合作用, KLPac, Kuala Lumpur 

Co-Director in Inner Voices, theater performance by Deaf Beat, DPAC, Petaling Jaya  

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2016 

Installation Artist in OPIUM - Artistic Expression by Malaysian & French Artists, DPAC, Kuala Lumpur 

Installation Artist in Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Festival, KLPAC, Kuala Lumpur  

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2015​ 

Installation Artist in Hua Zong Literary Awards Giving Ceremony 2015 (花踪文学奖) 
Curator & Installation artist in - ‘Insight into Being: Five Style of Chinese Calligraphy, OACA, Kuala Lumpur 

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Awards, Grants 

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2022 Open Art Competition 2021, Penang State Art Gallery 

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2021 Gold in Extablished Artist Group, UOB POTY 2021 

Connections Through Culture UK-Southeast Asia Online Collaboration Grantees 

  

2020 CENDANA Art in the city Public Art Commissioning Programme, 2020 

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2019 Shortlisted, Bakat Muda Sezaman 2019 (Young Contemporaries 2019) 

Hai-O Arts & Cultural Grants 2019 

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Collections 

UOB Bank 

Penang State Art Gallery 

HSBC Kuala Lumpur 

Rimbun Dahan 

© 2024 Lee Mok Yee. All rights reserved. 

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