BILLIE LEE IS AN ARTIST, EDUCATOR, AND WRITER WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART, PEDAGOGY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE.
Billie’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, video, and film, including her documentary Moving Home, which premiered at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival in 2012. Rooted in questions of belonging and embodiment, her visual work engages themes of diaspora, somatics, ritual, and socio-political entanglements. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Yale University, and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
As an educator, she has worked with diverse audiences in classrooms, museums, and community settings, teaching at the Hartford Art School, the University of New Mexico, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the University of New Haven, Queens Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and New York City public schools. She was also the inaugural Associate Curator of Education at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
As a writer, she gravitates toward the intersections of the personal and political, engaging questions of art and activism, critical and regenerative pedagogy, and minoritarian politics. She is currently working on a book titled Scenes of Pedagogy: Art and the Politics of Possibility, which examines the “promises” of art and pedagogy in enacting institutional critique and possibility.
She can be contacted at lee[dot]billie[at]gmail.com