Disciplines: Film/Video – animation, Visual Arts – painting

Eva Lee

Disciplines: Film/Video – animation, Visual Arts – painting
Region: NEW YORK
Residencies: 2004, 2006, 2008

Visual artist and experimental filmmaker Eva Lee is fascinated by the nature of mind and reality. This has led her to create work in response to neuroscience. Her latest experimental films were created in collaboration with the pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson. Other work includes EEG brain data visualizations, installations, and drawings.

She has exhibited at galleries and museums nationally, including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has screened internationally at Cannes Short Film Festival, BBC Big Screen, MashRome, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and other events such as SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York City presented by Harvestworks and ThoughtWorks Arts.

Her work is in the Tampa Public Art Collection, Connecticut Artists Collection, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Columbia University East Asian Library, and other collections. Awards include Fulbright Scholar Award, fellowships from Asian Cultural Council, Connecticut Office of the Arts, MacDowell, Hemera Foundation, and Mind & Life Summer Research Institute.

Her Fulbright Scholar research examined visual culture and philosophy of mind in the Buddhist tradition. She is currently interested in exploring contemporary models of mind and the positive development of the future of diverse intelligences.

Studios

Adams

Eva Lee worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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