Lee Paje

Lee Paje is a contemporary Filipino visual artist. She has shown her works in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Singapore. Her works explore themes of women and gender identity, myth-making, and unique contemporary lifestyles. In 2018, she won the Don Papa Rum Art Competition. She has been in residency at Art Omi in New York and at Kapitana Gallery in Negros Occidental.

Biography Lee Paje was born in 1980. She graduated with a Magna Cum Laude distinction for her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, major in Painting from the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City.

Works Paje works with mediums such as painting on copper, sculpture, and video to convey visual narratives that highlight inequity in relation to gender and identity. Paje's series of tondos, including Sunday Afternoon, oil and etching on copper, acrylic on steel wool (2014) and Mother and Child, oil and etching on copper, acrylic on steel wool (2014), depict everyday scenes of love and familial relationships among the LGBTQ+ community, focusing not on the unconventionality of it, but its simple relationships.

Exhibitions

2017 'Diin, San-O, Sin-O (Where, When, Who)' at Kapitana Gallery

2014 Art Taipei: Young Artist Discovery

2013 Philippine Art Trek at Gallery Sogan & Art 'Bigoted' at Manila Contemporary

2011 'Mater Potestatem' at Tin-aw Art Gallery

Features Artsy Art+ Magazine Blouin Art Info