Artist, Kuala Lumpur
Born in 1971, Yee I-Lann lives and works in Kota Kinabalu. Her art practice is to speculate on issues of culture, power, and the role of historical memory, in our social experience. Exploring such layers of meaning necessitates an extensive and multi-layered visual vocabulary drawn from research, historical references, popular culture, archives, and everyday objects. Yee graduated in 1993 from the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) with a major in Photography and a minor in Cinematography. She has in recent years incorporated indigenous media, such as batik, as well as bamboo, mengkuang and pandanus weaving into her artwork. Yee has exhibited extensively worldwide and her artworks are in major public, corporate, and private collections.