Lee Wen (Chinese: 李文; pinyin: Lǐ Wén; 1957–2019) was a Singapore-based performance artist who shaped the development of performance art in Asia. [1] He worked on the notion of identity, ethnicity, freedom, and the individual's relationship to communities and the environment.

In 1990, the Singaporean performance artist and writer Lee Wen produced an acrylic painting on canvas of a roughly sketched, acid-yellow figure sitting astride an ochre-hued horse, one arm crooked jauntily at the hip, defiantly facing the alien landscape in front of him.

2020年3月5日 · Lee Wen was a key figure in the development of performance art in Singapore. For the Gallery Children's Festival 2018, he worked closely with Vanini Belarmino (Assistant Director, Programmes) and her team to bring seminal performance works and early illustrations to a wider audience.

Lee Wen was a Singaporean multidisciplinary artist whose work concern social identity themes. Best known for his Yellow Man series of work, Lee was one of the pioneers of Performance art in Singapore.

2021年3月9日 · Singaporean artist Lee Wen’s series Journey of a Yellow Man (1992–2012), one of his most famous and long-standing performances, was not simply a personal affront, it was a political affront.

2019年3月3日 · Lee Wen (b. 1957, Singapore–d. 3 March 2019, Singapore) was a multidisciplinary artist and one of Singapore’s most internationally recognised contemporary artists. 1 A local pioneer of performance art who is best known for his Yellow Man series, Lee promoted the art form during a time when it was difficult to do so. 2 Lee’s work has been ...

Lee Wen (1957-2019) was a pioneer among a generation who defined and shaped performance art in Asia. He came of age at a time when Singapore was undergoing the turbulent and uncertain processes of nation-building—from a former British colony to a brief federation that formed Malaysia, and then rapid modernisation as a republic.

2019年3月4日 · Lee Wen, one of Singapore’s leading performance art pioneers, passed away on 3 March 2019, at 61 after suffering a lung infection. In his absence, he left behind a legacy of works that will continue to inform the art community now and in the future.

2019年3月4日 · Lee Wen, beloved pioneer of performance art in Singapore, has died at 61 years old of a lung infection on Sunday, 3rd March 2019. The Cultural Medallion recipient best known for his Yellow Man series also suffered from Parkinson’s disease.

Born in 1957, Lee Wen was a Singaporean multidisciplinary artist working on social identity themes. After leaving a banking career to enroll at LASALLE College of the Arts, Lee graduated with a Masters of Fine Art in 2006.