Lee Mok Yee (b. 1988, Klang, Malaysia) is an artist currently based in Kuala Lumpur. He graduated from the Dasein Academy of Art in Kuala Lumpur and later from the Fine Art programme at the University of London in Middlesex. Lee’s work is process-oriented and often interrogates the material aspect in art-making. He frequently works with readymade or store-bought objects, rearranging these materials as an act of interrogation against uniformity, pushing against the boundaries of function in mass production. In the re/arranging, he questions the idea of moving within structures as an exploration of change and its futilities.

Lee’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally, in Germany, London, Singapore, and South Korea. His most recent solo exhibition was Lee Mok Yee: The Pyramid Series (2023) at Rissim Contemporary, KL. Other notable exhibitions include Rudiments (duo with Mark Tan) (2022) at Temu House, KL, and A Rhetorical Garden (2021) at Richard Koh Fine Art, KL. He was also awarded the Gold prize of the UOB Painting of the Year award in 2021. A large part of Lee’s practice focuses on collaborative projects and exchange through art residencies. He recently completed a residency in Arles, France, in 2022, under the auspices of Alliance française in Malaysia. In 2021, he was a grantee of the British Council Connections through Culture grant, which allowed him to have an online residency with British artist, Laura Porter. In the same year, he initiated a temporary collective called “Labour and Weight” with local art and cultural workers Okui Lala, Yeo Lyle, and Koe Cheng Gaik. The project was funded by CENDANA’s Art in the City Public Art Commissioning Project and later exhibited at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya in 2023.