Shimrit Lee is a Brooklyn-based writer, educator, and curator working at the intersection of visual culture, performance, and critical security studies. Her work examines how violence is perpetuated, packaged, and sold in contemporary culture, and the role of visual art and performance in decolonizing and building community.
She has served as curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, and as editorial assistant at Creative Time, where she contributed to the forthcoming book Making Another World Possible (Routledge, 2019). She has an MA in international human rights law from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She recently completed a PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and is co-curating an exhibition based on her dissertation research at Philadelphia’s Twelve Gates Arts, which will open in September.
She is currently a member of No Longer Empty’s Curatorial Lab at the Kings County Hospital.
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She has served as curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, and as editorial assistant at Creative Time, where she contributed to the forthcoming book Making Another World Possible (Routledge, 2019). She has an MA in international human rights law from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She recently completed a PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and is co-curating an exhibition based on her dissertation research at Philadelphia’s Twelve Gates Arts, which will open in September.
She is currently a member of No Longer Empty’s Curatorial Lab at the Kings County Hospital.
academia.edu / linkedin
Contact || Shimrit.Lee@gmail.com