Sean Lee, a male-presenting East-Asian Chinese person smiles at the camera. He wears steampunk circle glasses that are brown with gold frames, and has wavy dark brown hair that pools at his shoulders. He wears a long sleeve dress that is green and purple with a thick winding black stripe that runs down the middle.

Sean Lee

Sean Lee (he/they) is an artist and curator exploring the assertion of disability art as the last avant-garde. Orienting towards a “crip horizon”, his practice explores the transformative possibilities of access aesthetics as an embodied politic that can desire the ways disability disrupts. 

  

Sean is currently the Director of Programming at Tangled Art + Disability. He holds a B.A. in Arts Management and Studio from UTSC. Sean has been working at the intersection of art and disability for the last decade, adding his insights and perspectives to conversations across Canada, the US, and internationally. He is a regular instructor for NODE Curatorial Studies Online and currently serves on the board of the Toronto Arts Council and CARFAC Ontario, and is Chair of TAC’s Visual and Media Arts Committee. Previously, he was a Board member for the8Fest, Board Chair for Creative Users Project and a member of the Ontario Art Council’s Deaf and Disability Advisory Group.