either mid-chew or mid-thought, mid-studio visit. shannon lee is, for the most part, a culture writer and editor.
her interests include porosity, taste, decay, labor, asian american identity, subjectivity, sounds, introduced species, land, solidarity, conspiracy, myth, off-cuts, hyperspecific beefs, horses, cookbooks as manifestos... that sorta thing!
she has written about art for over a decade, interviewing and covering artists such as anicka yi, bill traylor, carlos villa, kyungme, lee pivnik, mary mattingly, mel chin, meriem bennani, nam june paik, tauba auerbach, and vivien sansour, among others.
sometimes, she sends out a newsletter.
currently:
︎︎︎ restaurant critic at times union, hudson valley
︎︎︎ founding editor of the amp at asian american arts alliance
︎︎︎ editor at hyundai artlab
recent/upcoming projects:
︎︎︎ album and ep bios for the band leenalchi
previously:
︎︎︎ managing editor at the other almanac
︎︎︎ associate editor at artsy
︎︎︎ pr associate at digital counsel
︎︎︎ fact checker at phaidon
︎︎︎ staff writer at artspace**
︎︎︎ co-founder of silica mag
︎︎︎ singer and guitarist in teen body
︎︎︎ production assistant for david byrne
︎︎︎ silkscreener for 8ball community
︎︎︎ waitress at copperhill, m. wells, and okonomi/yuji ramen
**archive available via wayback machine.