Sean Lee (he/they) is an artist and curator exploring the assertion of disability art as the last avant-garde. Orienting towards a “crip horizon”, his practice explores the transformative possibilities of access aesthetics as an embodied politic that can desire the ways disability disrupts.
Sean is currently the Director of Programming at Tangled Art + Disability. He holds a B.A. in Arts Management and Studio from UTSC, and was recently the ACM Artist-in-Residence at UTSC.
Sean has been working at the intersection of art and disability for the last decade, adding his insights and perspectives to conversations across Canada, the US, and internationally. He has been a returning faculty at the Banff Centre, and serves regularly as an instructor for institutions such as NODE Curatorial Studies Online, Humber College and the Goethe Institute. He currently serves on the board of the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) and CARFAC Ontario, and is Chair of TAC’s Visual and Media Arts Committee. Previously, he has served on the boards of the8Fest and was Board Chair for Creative Users Project; peer assessment panels for the Ontario Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Ford Foundation (USA), etc.; advisory committee for City of Toronto’s Action Plan for Toronto’s Culture Sector and Ontario Art Council’s Deaf and Disability Advisory Group.