Sean Lee. Photo courtesy of the artist.

 

The Visual Arts Lecture Series presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.

Join Sean Lee (he/they), artist, curator, and faculty for the Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR): Early Career 2025 program for an afternoon talk. 

Sean Lee's work explores the assertion of disability art as the last avant-garde. His methodology explores crip cultural practices as a means to resist normative idealities. Orienting towards a “crip horizon,” Sean’s 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 is also an independent curator, lecturer, and advisor, adding his insights and perspectives to conversations across Canada, the US, and internationally. He has taught “Accessibility in Curating: A Framework” at NODE Curatorial Studies Online and the Hidden Project with Goethe Institut Shanghai. Sean serves on the board of the Toronto Arts Council and CARFAC Ontario, is Chair of TAC’s Visual and Media Arts Committee, and is a member of the External Advisory Panel supporting the City of Toronto in the development of its next ten-year culture plan, the Action Plan for Toronto’s Culture Sector.

Visual Arts is supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.