Lindy Lee (b.1954, Brisbane) is an established artist based in northern New South Wales. Her practice explores her Chinese roots through the philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism – philosophies, which emphasise humanity’s close and intimate relationship to nature.
In 2020/21, MCA Australia mounted an extensive survey exhibition of her work. Lindy Lee was awarded the AILA (Australian Institute of Landscape Architects) Award for Excellence in Civic Landscape (2020) and won the best public art award for the Property Developers Council for Australia (2022). Her works are in public spaces throughout Australia, USA, China, Hong Kong and the Middle East. Lindy Lee was a founding member and former president of the Asian Australian Artists Association, former Deputy Chair of the Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council and has been Artist Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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| 1960 | Born in Brisbane, Australia |
| 1975 | Diploma of Education (Art, Secondary School), Kelvin Grove College of Advance Education, Brisbane, Australia |
| 1984 | Post Graduate Diploma (Painting) and BA (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, Australia |
| 2001 | PhD (Art Theory), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2022 | “Moon in a Dewdrop”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
| “Flowing Everywhere and Always”, Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, Australia | |
| “A World of Dew, and within every Dewdrop, a World of Struggle”, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
| 2021-22 | “Moon in a Dewdrop – traveling show”, Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW; Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW; Artspace Mackay, QLD; Devonport Regional, TAS; John Curtin, WA; National Gallery of Australia, VIC, Australia |
| 2021 | “Love Letters Between the Rain and the Fire”, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney, Australia |
| 2020 | “Moon in a Dewdrop”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia |
| 2019 | “Exploding Suns”, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore |
| 2018 | “Kalpa Fires”, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| “Lindy Lee”, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore | |
| 2017 | ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China |
| “The Seamless Tomb”, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2015 | “The Tyranny and Liberation of Distance”, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2014 | “Lindy Lee: The Dark of Absolute Freedom”, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia |
| “Fire Stones”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2013 | “Universal Record of the Flame”, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong |
| 2012 | “One Billion Worlds”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| “Mystical Realism: A Record of Things Experienced”, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
| 2011 | “The Secret World of the Shadow”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2022-23 | “wHole”, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia |
| 2022 | “No Point in Time”, Vermilion Gallery, Walsh Bay, Australia |
| “Slow Churn”, Somerset Regional Gallery, Australia | |
| “Our Journeys”, Our Stories, Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2021 | ”Presence of Mind”, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, Australia |
| “Terra Australis Revisited”, Gallerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria | |
| “Diaspora Pavillion 2”, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2019 | “Art Basel”, Hong Kong |
| 2018 | ART021, Sullivan+Strumpf, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China |
| “The 1818 Project”, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia | |
| “The Waves”, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia | |
| TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria, Australia | |
| “Infinite Conversations: Asian-Australia Artistic Exchange”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | |
| ”Divided Worlds: Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art”, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia | |
| “Art Basel”, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong | |
| “Chaos & Order”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
| Group Show 2018, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2017 | Group Show 2017, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia |
| 2013 | “Made in China”, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, New South Wales, Australia |
| 2012 | “Marking Time”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia |
| “Chinese Australia”, Australia China Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia | |
| “Return to Sender”, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia | |
| “Made in Australia”, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia | |
| “Another”, Deloitte Foundation, Sydney, Australia |
| 2024 | “Ouroboros”, an iconic sculpture celebrating the National Gallery of Australia’s 40th anniversary 2023 Untitled, DBAR residential, Coolangatta, Australia |
| 2023 | “Tower of Ten Billion Stars”, edition 3, San Diego, USA |
| “Being Swallowed by the Milky Way, Queen’s Wharf, Brisbane, Australia | |
| 2022 | “One Bright Pearl”, edition 2, Gladstone Gardens, Woollhara, Australia |
| “One Bright Pearl”, edition 1, The King’s Daughters Children’s Mental Health Hospital, Virginia, USA | |
| “The Life of Stars”, edition 4, Private commission, New York, USA | |
| “Open as the Sky”, edition 2, Private commission, New York, USA | |
| “The Spheres”, Brisbane Festival Art Barge, Brisbane, Australia | |
| “Eye of Infinity”, Peak Tram, Hong Kong | |
| “One Bright Pearl: The Great Dream Fulfilled”, Shanghai Expo Cultural Park, Shanghai, China | |
| 2021 | “Rolling in, Rolling out”, Museum of Mobile Machines, Changchun Vanke Changtuo, Shanghai, China |
| “Navigating the Stars”, edition 3, Vanke Fashion Center, Beijing, China | |
| 2020 | “Secret World of a Starlight Ember”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia |
| “Between Matter and Spirit”, 447 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia | |
| “Navigating the Stars”, edition 2, Times China Tianjing, Chengdu, China | |
| 2019 | “Heaven and Earth”, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Xi’an, China |
| “Tower of Ten Billion Stars”, edition 2, 1900 N Street, Washington DC, USA | |
| “Tower of Ten Billion Stars”, edition 1, Balmain, Sydney, Australia | |
| “Seeds of Birth and Death and The Ripples of 1,000 Elemental Affirmations”, 100 Pacific Highway, Sydney, Australia 2019 Vault of Heaven and Seeds of Cosmos, 60 Martin Place, Sydney, Australia | |
| “Moonlight Deities”, 480 Queen Street, Brisbane, Australia | |
| 2018 | “The Life of Stars”, edition 3, Riyhad, Saudi Arabia |
| “The Tenderness of Rain”, edition 2, Guangzhou Times China Headquarters, Zhengzhou, China | |
| “Dragon’s Tail Comet”, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia | |
| “Tower of Ten Billion Stars”, Haitang Bay Crowne Plaza, Sanya, China | |
| “Fire Over Fire and The Marriage of Fire and Metal”, The Middle House, Shanghai, China | |
| “The Life of Stars”, edition 2, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia | |
| 2017 | “Navigating the Stars and Seeds of Cosmos”, World Financial Center, Qingdao, China |
| “The Tenderness of Rain”, Province Midtown Cultural Centre, Zhengzhou, China | |
| 2016 | “Rippling Night”, Huafa City Hub, Wuhan, China |
| 2015 | “The Life of Stars”, Tingshin W Square, Shanghai, China |
| “Garden of Cloud and Stone”, Chinatown, Sydney, Australia | |
| “Springs”, Tishman Speyer, Shanghai, China | |
| 2014 | “Garden of Fire and Water”, Avoca Gardens, Australia |
| 2011 | “Flame from the Dragon’s Pearl”, IFC Residence, Shanghai, China |
Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection ANZ, Australia
Art Collection Artbank, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide, Australia
Art Gallery of WA, Perth, Australia
Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
BHP Billiton, Australia
BP Collection, Australia
Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Hallmark Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
ICI Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Wesfarmers, Perth, Australia
Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
| 2022 | The Property Council of Australia, Best Public Art Project |
| 2018 | Melbourne Art Foundation, Visual Art Award |
| Melbourne Art Fair ST. ALi Artist Award | |
| 2012-14 | Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship, Australia Council for the Arts |
| 2009 | China Art Projects, Beijing, China |
| 2005 | Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China |
