Emily S.J Lee - foto © I-Hsuan Hsieh
Emily Shin-Jie Lee
Emily Shin-Jie Lee is a cultural practitioner and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her work is often realised through discursive formats involving multiple interlocutors. She studied anthropology at National Taiwan University and obtained her Research Master’s in Art Studies from the University of Amsterdam.
She currently works at Framer Framed as head of research with a focus on residencies and cross-institutional collaborations. Her recent projects include Past Disquiet (2025), Tanah Merdeka (2023), Archipelagic Affects (2023), the KITLV-Framer Framed residency programme (2022-ongoing), and the residency programme at Werkplaats Molenwijk in collaboration with the social practice workshop at Rijksakademie (2022-2024). Since 2022, she has been working on a PhD project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam, in which she studies art residency and its critical engagement with ecological, feminist and decolonial enquiries.
Emily is one of the founding members of Lightbox, a public photo library and center for contemporary photography in Taipei; co-founder of Limestone Books, an art book store in Maastricht; and co-founder of Hide & Seek Audiovisual Art, a multidisciplinary collective focusing on cultural mediation and alternative pedagogy. Prior to her relocation in the Netherlands, she worked at nichido contemporary art with a focus on exhibition projects between and across Taiwan and South/East Asia.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Sensible Past in Surabaya – Of Distances and the Fabrication of the Frame
Group exhibition in Surabaya, Indonesia with Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed artists-in-residence
Agenda
Coffee Tastes Like Coffee: Coffee Ritual and Book Launch of Cocuyo
A coffee tasting workshop and the book launch of Cocuyo, by artists Ana Tomimori and Carlos Felipe Guzmán of Proyecto Cocuyo at Werkplaats Molenwijk
Book Launch: Archipelagic Affects
Netherlands launch of the publication Archipelagic Affects, co-published by Framer Framed and the Jan van Eyck Academie
Book Launch: Archipelagic Affects
Taiwanese launch of the publication Archipelagic Affects, co-published by Framer Framed and the Jan van Eyck Academie
Book Presentation: 'Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene' & 'Be Water, My Friend'
A joyous sharing on writing, reading and book making at documenta 15, Kassel
Magazine
Colonial history / Indonesia / Residencies / Southeast Asia /
Bookshop Selection / Action Research / Diaspora / Shared Heritage / Residencies /
Bookshop Selection: Archipelagic Affects
Podcast / Social Practice /
Podcast: Emily Shin-Jie Lee on the making of 'Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene'
Collectives / Bookshop Selection / East Asia / Southeast Asia /