The School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) at Simon Fraser University is excited to welcome two new faculty members, Young Joo Lee and Chris Chong Chan Fui, at the level of Assistant Professor.
Young Joo Lee is a multimedia artist from South Korea. Young holds an MFA in Sculpture at Yale University (2017) and an MFA in Film at the Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule Frankfurt (2013). She was a Visiting Lecturer in Animation and Immersive Media Art at the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. She was a College Fellow in Media Practice at Harvard University (2018–20), a Fulbright Scholar in Film & Digital Media (2015–18) and a recipient of DAAD artist scholarship (2010–12). Her work has been exhibited in national and international institutions and film/video festivals.
Chris Chong Chan Fui is a filmmaker and artist who works between Southeast Asia and Canada. From digital and analog moving images to fabricated and organic objects, Chong works to reveal unfamiliar narratives. His work layers the social and natural sciences with transnational circuits of globalization and manufactured cultures and landscapes. With a rigorous research methodology and a formalist aesthetic, he uses structure and constraints as a creative path toward expressive innovation. Chong has exhibited at such venues as the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Palais de Tokyo, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, and the Gwangju Biennale, while premiering films at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight, BFI London, and TIFF’s Wavelengths, where he won back-to-back awards for Best Canadian Short Film. Chong holds an MFA (film) from York University, and is a Smithsonian Institute fellow (National Museum of Natural History), a Ford Foundation fellow, and a Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Arts Fellow.
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