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Joyce Yu-Jean Lee

Professor

Department
Foundation
Email
jlee396@pratt.edu
Phone
718.636.3617
Website
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers

Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, MFA, is an Associate Professor of Foundation at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

She is a transnational Taiwanese-Chinese American visual artist who combines video, sculpture, photography and interactive installation with social practice and institutional critique. Her artwork examines how media, technology and culture shape notions of truth and understanding of the ¡°other.¡± She is the founder of , a project about Internet censorship, which garnered backlash from Chinese state authorities in 2016. In 2026, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority commissioned Joyce to create , a 52-channel video installation for Fulton Transit Center in downtown Manhattan, New York City.

Joyce has exhibited globally, including at the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBK?), the Oslo Freedom Forum, SCOPE Art Fair, Hong Kong Center for Community Cultural Development, The Delaware Contemporary and Kreeger Museum. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, , , Huffington Post, and on BBC Radio. She joined Pratt faculty in 2023 from Marist University, where she previously taught as Assistant Professor of Art and Digital Media.

MFA, Mount Royal School of Art (Multidisciplinary Art), Maryland Institute College of Art

BA, Communications, University of Pennsylvania