Ahreum Lee

Ahreum Lee is an interdisciplinary media artist from Seoul, South Korea, currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). She is interested in examining socio-political issues that have been embedded in everyday technologies such as Google Maps, Predictive Text Algorithms, and AI virtual assistant voices. She uses a range of media including video, audio, performance, 3D-printing sculpture, 3D rendered images, online stock images and web art. Lee was a finalist for the Emerging Digital Artist Award held by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video (Toronto) in 2019. She has exhibited and performed in Montréal at the Fonderie Darling, Ada X, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Arsenal Contemporain Montréal - BIAN 2021, as well as Third Shift Festival (Saint John) and Axis Lab (Chicago). Additionally, she has participated in the Emerging BAiR program at the Banff Art and Creativity Centre and the Impression Residency Program at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.