Adam Lee
Born 1979, Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works in Macedon Ranges, Victoria
Education
2015 Doctor of Philosophy, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2006 Masters by Research in Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2002 Bachelor of Arts Fine Art (Honors), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Post Graduate Diploma in Education, Melbourne University
2000 Bachelor of Arts Fine Art, (Painting), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Dry Bones, Crying Stones, STATION, Sydney
Wrestling Smoke, BEERS, London
2022 World Sick Hermit, STATION, Melbourne
2021 O Restless Earth, STATION, Sydney
2019 My Thousand Sounds, BEERS London, UK
STRATUM, (with Jon Cattapan), STATION, Melbourne
2018 MONOLITH, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2017 This Earthen Tent, BEERS London, UK
Votives, VOLTA NY with Angell Gallery, New York, USA
Lament Asunder (All Is Dark Is Midnight to Me), STATION, Melbourne
2016 Of A Great and Mighty Shadow, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 A Long Obedience, BEERS London, UK
Eden. Exile. Babel, STATION, Melbourne
2013 Into the Heart of the Sea and to the Roots of the Mountains, KALIMANRAWLINS, Melbourne
2012 The World Travailing, KALIMANRAWLINS, Melbourne
2011 And They Built for Themselves Kingdoms, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne
For Signs, for Seasons and for Days and for Years, Motorworks Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Peniel: Marking the Places We’ve Been, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2006 The Big Issues: A Recent Study of Homelessness in Melbourne, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibition
2024 Old Stories New Magic, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2023 Melbourne Now, National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne
Dark is the night before day, STATION, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, TAS
2022 Holding the Circle, Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial, Victoria
2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Ten year show, STATION, Melbourne
Doors of perception, Visions, Auckland, New Zealand
2020 Paying it Forward: Recent Acquisitions to the University Art Collection, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2019 STRATUM (w Jon Cattapan), STATION, Melbourne
Pleasure Plants, STATION | Sydney
Sydney Contemporary w STATION, Carriageworks, Sydney
Idle Worship, Lismore Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2018 Shantih, Shantih, Shantih, STATION, Melbourne
2017 75 Works on Paper, BEERS London, UK
2016 Sirens (I Heard Voices In The Night), Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
35 Works on Paper, BEERS London, UK
Angell Gallery’s 20 Year Anniversary, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 The Fantasy of Representation, BEERS London, UK
The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
I Heart Painting 2, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014 In the Dust of This Planet, STATION, Melbourne
The Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
National Works on Paper Prize exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Ready Player One, STATION, Melbourne
2013 The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2012 The Churchie National Emerging Artist Award, Griffith University, Brisbane
Contemporary Australian Drawing 2: Drawing as notation, Text and Discovery, University of the Arts, London
Art Stage Singapore (with Karen Black), Tristian Koenig, Singapore, SG
2011 Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
The Churchie National Emerging Artist Award, Griffith University, Brisbane
Remnants in Documentation, General Store for Contemporary Art, Sydney
2010 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2009 Off the Wall, Art Melbourne 09, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
2008 Secondary Sources (curated by Dr. Phil Edwards), RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Jesuswalks Art Initiative, World Youth Day, Domain Gardens, Sydney
2006 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004 Siemens Fine Art Traveling Scholarship, Storey Hall, RMIT, Melbourne
2003 Siemens Fine Art Traveling Scholarship, Storey Hall, RMIT, Melbourne
Awards, Scholarships, Residencies
2021 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (finalist)
2019 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (finalist)
2017 Stonehouse – Glasshouse Residency, Australian Cultural Fund, Chenaud, France
2015 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (finalist)
2014 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria (finalist)
National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria (finalist)
2013 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (finalist)
2012 The Churchie National Emerging Artist Award, Griffith University, Brisbane (finalist)
2011 The Churchie National Emerging Artist Award, Griffith University, Brisbane (finalist, judges special commendation award)
2010 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney (finalist, nominated by Jon
Cattapan)
Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria (finalist)
Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
2009 Off the Wall, Art Melbourne 09, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne (selected artist)
2006 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)
Siemens Fine Art Scholarship, RMIT University (Postgraduate finalist),
2003 Siemens Fine Art Scholarship, RMIT University (Postgraduate winner)
J.N McNichol Prize, RMIT University (nominated)
Collections
Artbank
Acacia Collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Bendigo Art Gallery
Joyce Nissan Collection
National Gallery of Victoria
University of Melbourne Art Collection
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
Private collections in Australia and overseas
Publications
2024 Adam Lee: Ghost Smoke, 2011-2023
2019 Adam Lee: Monolith, Stonehouse-Glasshouse, 2019
2018 Adam Lee: Votive, Perimeter Editions & STATION, Melbourne, 2017
Selected Bibliography
2023 David Hansen, New Adam, STATION, Sydney
2018 Dr. Kent Wilson (et. al), Adam Lee, Monolith. Stonehouse—Glasshouse Residency 2017, Stonehouse—Glasshouse, Melbourne, 2017.
Dan Rule (ed.), Adam Lee: Votive, Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, 2018
2017 Michaela Bear, ‘Adam Lee: This Earthen Tent,’ www.trebuchet-magazine.com, 7 September 2017
2015 Jack Willet, Eden. Exile. Babel, exhibition catalogue, STATION, March 2015
2014 Jane Albert, Critic’s Choice, Vogue Australia, March 2014, p162-166
Dan Rule, In the Galleries, The Age, November 15th, 2014
In Focus, Belle, November 2014
2013 Dan Rule, In the Galleries, The Age, December 14th, 2013
2012 Dan Rule, Adam Lee: The World Travailing, KALIMANRAWLINS, catalogue, September,
2011 Simon Wright, Commended: Adam Lee, The Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, Griffith University Press, Brisbane, 2011, p. 10-11
Phil Brown, On the Beat: Up-and-coming artists present their take on life as we know it, Brisbane News, 3-9th August, 2011
Adam Lee, The Melbourne Magazine, Issue no. 85, Nov 2011, p. 88
Dan Rule, Around the Galleries, The Age, Nov 19th, 2011
Dan Rule, 2011, Adam Lee, Artist Profile Nov/Dec 2011, p. 52-55
2006 Street Smart Art, The Melbourne Times, No. 22, June 7, 2006, p. 3