mid-chew and 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, mugwort and other introduced species, land, solidarity, fantasy (both mimi and dnd), conspiracy, myth, off-cuts, hyperspecific beefs, horses, cookbooks as manifestos... that sorta thing!
she has written about art for over a decade, interviewing, profiling, and otherwise covering artists such as anicka yi, bill traylor, carlos villa, choe u-ram, kyungme, lee pivnik, mary mattingly, mel chin, meriem bennani, nam june paik, tauba auerbach, and vivien sansour, among others.
speaking gigs include bard college, pratt institute, nada new york, asian american journalists association, and the asian american international film festival.
she is trying to get better at sending out this 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:
︎︎︎ album and ep bios for the band leenalchi
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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.