Informed by a lifetime of movement through the United States, Canada, and South Korea, Josephine Lee's transdisciplinary practice addresses the psychic violence of cultural assimilation and naturalization through migration. She maps the origins of materials and concepts to explore how ideas of place and belonging are entangled within politics of citizenship and national identity. In her current research, Lee complicates the frameworks of her practice by examining both the role of technology in deepening conditions of racial violence and social inequity, as well as its capacity to be configured towards diasporic futures to enact cultural resilience and propose new orientations within our bodies and ecologies.

Josephine Lee is a first-generation immigrant and transdisciplinary artist. Lee has participated in artist residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Alberta), the Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery in collaboration with The Quantum Matter Institute (Vancouver), and Diasporic Futurisms (Toronto). She is the recipient of the 2021 Studio Award at Griffin Art Projects (Vancouver) and the 2022 Emerging Artist Award at Centrum Foundations (Washington), as well as the recipient of funding from the American Craft Council, College of Art Association, British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Lee has received a BSA in Animal Science from the University of Saskatchewan (CA), a BFA in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia (CA), and an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons (US). Lee is currently working within the practice-based PhD in Contemporary Arts program at Simon Fraser University (CA) located on the unceded and occupied ancestral and traditional lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.