Yee I-lann

Yee I-Lann graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 1993. Her artistic practice engages with archipelagic Southeast Asia’s turbulent history, with works addressing issues of colonialism and neo-colonialism, power, and the impact of historic memory in social experience. She has in recent years started working collaboratively with sea-based and land-based communities and indigenous mediums in Sabah. She previously worked as a production designer in the Malaysian film industry. Her recent exhibitions include the 17th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey in 2022; STILL ALIVE: Aichi Triennale,Aichi, Japan in 2022; Until We Hug Again, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong in 2021; Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City, Taiwan in 2019; Glorious: earthly pleasures and heavenly realms, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2017, Sunshower: Contemporary Art From Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center Tokyo, Japan in 2017; and Converging Voices: Gender and Identity, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, USA in 2017. She currently lives and works in Kota Kinabalu in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah.