Events
Artist Walkthrough, Bovey Lee
Monday, March 9, 2026 | 2:30-3:30pm
Artist Walkthrough of installed works at the Guggenheim Gallery, Roosevelt Building, Beckman Building, free and open to the public
Chapman University
Orange, California
Group Exhibition—KIN: Portraits from the Escalette Permanent Art Collection
February 2 - March 19, 2026
Group exhibition featuring Application for Naturalization explores portraiture as a site of relationship, belonging, and interdependence
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University
Orange, California
Group Exhibition—Opening Exhibition
November 15, 2025 - May 15, 2026
Group exhibition featuring Hope-Orchids (Outdoor) at the gallery’s new space (former Barneys building)
Maybaum Gallery Union Square
San Francisco, California
Permanent Collection—Montage Health Foundation
Protection—Bunny Ears Cactus (Outdoor) has been acquired by the Montage Health Foundation for their art collection program in 2026
Monterey, California
Permanent Collection—Vancouver Art Gallery
Art Continuum Hong Kong (ACHK) collection
Childhood Torture—Pulling Hair is now represented in ACHK, a living collection of Hong Kong art established in 2025
British Columbia, Canada
Permanent Collection—Fengxian Museum
A Gentle World Will Swirl has been added to the museum’s permanent collection in 2025
Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition—“Paper and Water” - 2025 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale
November 1, 2025 - February 28, 2026
Group exhibition featuring hand cut Tyvek installation A Gentle World Will Swirl
Fengxian Museum
Shanghai, China
Critical Writing—“Carceral Craft: Exclusion and the Paperwork of the Golden Venture Detainees”
Petition for a Non-immigrant Worker featured in chapter by Dr Marie Lo
Anthology
To be published in 2026
Critical Histories of the Arts and Crafts Movement
University of Manchester Press, Manchester, UK
Critical Writing—“Cutting Through Silence: Women’s Voices in the Art of Chinese Papercutting”
featured in essay by Shuyu Liu
Publication
Vol. 5 Issue 10, 2025
Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences
Boya Century Publishing, Charlotte, NC, USA and Wuhan, China
“As a female artist trained in both Chinese calligraphy and American digital arts, Lee creates a ‘papercutting about papercutting,’ reflecting the tension between freedom and confinement, tradition and modernity.”
Group Exhibition—Lost & Found: Searching for Home
November 15, 2024 - September 14, 2026
Group exhibition featuring We Are All Mountaineers-Entry (入)
Wing Luke Museum
Seattle, Washington
Group Exhibition—The Magical Ts’un: Texture Beyond Strokes
June 2 - 28, 2025
Group exhibition featuring The Vine Jumper
Grotto Fine Art
Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong
Critical Writing—“China’s Feminist Gap”
featured in essay by Professor Lisa Claypool
Publication
Volume 33, Issue 2, May 2025
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA
“The environmental work is about our departure from nature. Our detachment from the homeland, the motherland, which is nature.”
Interview—“Bovey Lee’s Hand-Cut, Extraordinarily Precise Paper Sculptures, Emphasize Resilience and Vulnerability”
interview by Dominique Musorrafiti
Publication
Planet China vol.17
March 2025
china-underground.com, Italy
Exhibition—Bird Song, Flower Scent
June 30, 2023 - February 17, 2025
Four-part installation with augmented reality
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Tsimshatsui
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Critical Writing—Republic of Wind: Shared Breath on the Pacific Rim”
featured in essay by Dr. Fiona Shen
Exhibition catalogue published as part of PST LA: Art & Science Collide
Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific
published in February 11, 2025
Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University
Orange, California
Independent Research—Victoria & Albert Museum
August 6, 2024
Hosted by the museum’s East Asian Studies Department
London, United Kingdom