Ms Jennifer Lee's Biography

Ms Jennifer Lee's Professional Career

Career

potter; Solo Exhibitions The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh 1981, Anatol Orient London 1984, Crafts Cncl Sideshow ICA London 1985, Rosenthal Studio-Haus London 1985, Craft Centre Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester 1986, Crafts Cncl Shop V & A 1987, Craft Centre and Design Gallery City Art Gallery Leeds 1987, Galerie Besson London 1990, 1992 and 1995, Graham Gallery NY 1991, Galleri Lejonet Stockholm 1993, Röhsska Museum of Arts and Crafts Göteborg 1993, Aberdeen Art Gallery 1994, Osiris Brussels 1994, Galerie Besson London 1995, James Graham and Sons NY 1996, Galerie Besson London 1997 and 2000, James Graham & Sons NY 1999, Frank Lloyd Gall LA 2002, Galerie Besson London 2003, Frank Lloyd Gallery Santa Monica 2005, 2009 and 2010, Liverpool Street Gallery Sydney 2006, Galerie Besson 2008, Liverpool Street Gallery Sydney 2010; Group Exhibitions incl: Three Generations British Ceramics (Maya Behn Zürich) 1984, Jugend Gestaltet (Exempla Munich) 1985, Jugend Formt Keramik (Mathildenhöhe Award Darmstadt Germany) 1985, British Ceramic Art (Transform NY) 1985, Zeitgenössische Keramik Aus Grossbritannien (Keramik Studio Vienna) 1986, New British Design (Osaka and Tokyo) 1987, On a Plate (The Serpentine Gallery) 1987, British Ceramics (Marianne Heller Galerie Sandhausen Germany) 1987, The New Spirit (Crafts Cncl Gallery London and tour) 1987, Craft and Folk Museum (Los Angeles) 1988, Ton in Ton (Landesmuseum Germany) 1988, Christmas Exhibition (Galerie Besson London) 1988, Sotheby's Decorative Award Exhibition (Yorakucho Seibu Japan) 1988, Galleri Lejonet (Stockholm) 1989, L'Europe des Ceramistes (Auxerre France touring Spain, Austria, Hungary) 1989, The Royal Scottish Museum (Edinburgh) 1989, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Pupils (Sainsbury Centre Norwich) 1990, Int Art Fair (Chicago) 1990, The Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) 1991, British Ceramics (Int Art Fair Bologna Italy) 1991 and 1992, British Ceramics (Graham Gallery NY) 1991, Contemporary British Ceramics (Graham Gallery NY) 1992, Int Ceramic Art (Nat Museum of History Taipei Taiwan) 1992, Keramik aus Grossbritannien und Japan (Galerie Hinteregger Austria) 1992, Handbuilt Ceramics (Scottish Gallery Edinburgh) 1993, Towards the Future (Marianne Heller Germany) 1993, Visions of Craft (Crafts Cncl London) 1993, 20th Century European Ceramics (Los Angeles) 1993, Gallery Koyanagi Tokyo 1994, SOFA (Chicago) 1994 and 2002, The David Collection NY 1994, Wim Vromans Amsterdam 1995, James Graham & Sons NY 1995, Design im Wandel (Übersee Museum Bremen Germany) 1996, European Ceramics (Yufuku Gallery Tokyo) 1997, English Crafts (The Works Gallery Philadelphia) 1997, Gestaltendes Handwerk (Munich) 1998, Spirit of the Times (Bowes Museum Co Durham) 1998, Women in Europe (Galerie Marianne Heller Germany) 1998, Clay into Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY) 1998, Current Context - new ways of seeing (Royal Museum, Edinburgh) 1999, Crafts Cncl 25th Anniversary Exhibition (V & A) 1999, Millennium Mugs (Galerie Besson London) 1999, Br Ceramics.2000.dk (Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus Denmark) 2000, Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 2000, Ceramic Biennale (Ichen World Ceramic Centre Korea) 2001, Poetics of Clay - An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia 2001, Bengt Julin's Ceramics, Gustavsbergs Porslinmuseum Sweden 2001, Modern Pots Ceramics from the Lisa Sainsbury Coll (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts UEA Norwich) 2001, Ceramic Modernism, The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art Toronto 2002, Vasen aus 10 Ländern (Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein Munich) 2002, British Ceramics (James Graham & Sons New York), British Cramics: Five Artists (Frank Lloyd Gallery Santa Monica CA) 2003, Constructed Clay (Galerie Besson London) 2003, SOFA (Chicago) 2003 and 2004, European Ceramics - Westerwald Prize (Keramik Museum Westerwald) 2004, Celebrating 30 Years Crafts Cncl (V&A) 2005, A Homage to Ruth Duckworth (Garth Clark Gallery NY) 2005, Modern Pots (Dulwich Picture Gallery) 2005, European Ceramics Biennale (Musée de l'Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere Troyes) 2005, One Piece - One Artist (Galerie Marianne Heller Germany) 2005, Contemporary Potters (Galerie Besson London) 2005, Puur Klei (Pottenbakkers Museum Holland) 2006, Collect (V&A Museum London) 2006, Classic and Contemporary Ceramics (Galerie Besson London) 2006 and 2007, SOFA (NY) 2007, British Studio Ceramics 20th Century Transformations (Bucks County Museum) 2008, Twenty Years - Twenty Pots (Galerie Besson London) 2008, SOFA Chicago 2008, Beautifully Crafted (Nat Glass Centre Gateshead) 2008, SOFA NY 2009, U-Tsu-Wa (21-21 Design Sight Tokyo) 2009, Contemporary Studio Ceramics: The Dauer Collection (Calif State Univ) 2009, The CellMark Collection (Röhsska Museet Göteborg) 2009, Collect (Saatchi Gallery) 2010, Blue Chip Exhibition (Liverpool Street Gallery Sydney) 2010, Contemporary British Studio Ceramics: The Grainer Collection (Mint Museum of Craft and Design NC) 2010, Collect (Saatchi Gallery) 2011, Danese (NY) 2011, Int Masterworks (Yufuku Tokyo) 2012, The Nature of Things (New Art Centre Roche Court Sculpture Park) 2012; Collections work in numerous public collections incl: V&A London, Royal Scottish Museum, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Los Angeles Co Museum of Art, Leeds City Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Society, Crafts Cncl Collection, The Sainsbury Centre (Norwich), Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Hawkes Bay Art Gallery NZ, Peters Fndn London, Buckinghamshire Co Museum, MIMA Middlesbrough, Thamesdown Collection Swindon, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich Castle Museum, Peter Siemssen Fndn Germany, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Nat Museum of Sweden Stockholm, CellMark Göteborg Sweden, Trustees Savings Bank Collection, Europa Kunst Handwerk Landesgerwerbeamt Stuttgart, Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet Göteborg, Scripps Coll Claremont Calif, Norwich Castle Museum, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Bellerive Museum Zurich, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts Japan, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg Germany, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Long Beach Museum of Art Calif, Minneapolis Inst of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art NY; Awards David Gordon Meml Tst Prize 1979, Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship 1979, Allen Lane Penguin Book Award 1983, Mathildenhöhe Award Rosenthal Germany 1984, Jugend Gestaltet Prize Munich 1985, Crafts Cncl Grant 1987, Br Cncl Exhibitions Grant 1991, Bayerischer Staatspreis 1998, Crafts Cncl Outward Missions Grant 2002

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