Ahn Lee

Ahn Lee (San Francisco, CA) is a queer Cantonese artist and researcher. Their interdisciplinary ceramics practice is a combined methodology of autobiographical re-making and archival research on the Cantonese diaspora. As a of Sunwui (Xinhui) descent, Ahn explores their ancestral roots to this contested site of capitalism and imperialism through leveraging archival research historiography, critical race and gender theory. Though trained as an academic researcher, Ahn aims to create with intuition, using critical history and personal narratives to imagine a current queer Cantonese futurity. Previously, Ahn studied at UCLA as a Eugene V. Cota Robles Graduate Fellow. Ahn is a 2022 MFA graduate of the UC Berkeley Art Practice Department. They are the 2021 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award Winner, a 2022 Watershed Ceramics Zenobia Fellow, and a 2022-23 Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellow. In 2024, Ahn will be an artist in California Clay at Bedford Gallery. Ahn currently works out of and manages ceramics studio "Dusted and Blue" in San Francisco Chinatown.