Justin Lee, I am a Con Artist-Bare Bear, 2006
Silkprint & image transfer
47 x 64 cm (visible), 74 x 99 x 3 cm (framed)
Condition: Very good
Edition A/P
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Justin Lee (Singaporean, b. 1963) studied Fine Arts at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and later earned a Master of Fine Art at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore (in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London). His training also includes a Diploma in Fine Arts from LASALLE–SIA College of the Arts. Over his career he has taken part in a broad range of exhibitions across Asia and internationally and has received arts-related scholarships and awards.
Lee’s work reflects on everyday life in Singapore, drawing from both Eastern and Western visual cultures. In his exhibition I am a CON artist at The Private Museum (2021), he expanded his practice beyond painting into installations, text-based artefacts and interactive works. Through these, he critiques themes such as consumerism, individualism, media saturation and the normalisation of self-glorification. His art invites viewers to question how daily exposure to signs, billboards, products and images influences identity, perception and society.
Acquired from Utterly Art in 2007.
(Photographed in November 2025)