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.
Lee is currently a curatorial assistant at Building 92, the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s exhibition space, where she curated the recent exhibition The Long Look (March 7-June 7, 2020). She is also a faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where she recently taught a course on Forensic Architecture. She is an alum of No Longer Empty’s Curatorial Lab and served as a curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited. In 2019, she co-curated an exhibition with HEKLER based on her dissertation research at Philadelphia’s Twelve Gates Arts. Her writing has appeared in Warscapes, Jadaliyya, +972 Magazine, and Jerusalem Quarterly, and she is currently working on a book about efforts by museums to redress histories of colonial violence. She received her M.A. in international human rights law from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2012 and her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from New York University in 2019.
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Lee is currently a curatorial assistant at Building 92, the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s exhibition space, where she curated the recent exhibition The Long Look (March 7-June 7, 2020). She is also a faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where she recently taught a course on Forensic Architecture. She is an alum of No Longer Empty’s Curatorial Lab and served as a curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited. In 2019, she co-curated an exhibition with HEKLER based on her dissertation research at Philadelphia’s Twelve Gates Arts. Her writing has appeared in Warscapes, Jadaliyya, +972 Magazine, and Jerusalem Quarterly, and she is currently working on a book about efforts by museums to redress histories of colonial violence. She received her M.A. in international human rights law from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2012 and her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from New York University in 2019.
academia.edu / linkedin
Contact || Shimrit.Lee@gmail.com