Lennie Lee (born 4 March 1958) is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London.
In 1984 he occupied several disused buildings and, together with a number of artists including South African painter, Beezy Bailey, he began to make site-specific[1] installations using found material.
Through this, Lee was introduced to members of the KULE group, a radical theatre collective based in Berlin who invited him to come and stay in August Strasse 10 in the winter of 1990.
That same year, in collaboration with Ian Stenhouse and Mark Bishop, Lee set up the Rich and famous gallery in the heart of London's East End showing work by a number of artists including Martin Maloney, David Burrows, Mark Divo, Ingo Giezendanner, Graham Nicholls, Dan Jones, Tod Hanson,[3] Lee Campbell, Daniel Fernandez, David Mccairley Ian Stenhouse, Gini Simpson, Trevor Knaggs and Stefanie Maas.
[17] Since 2001, Lee has made a series of performances and exhibitions in Chengdu, Xi'an and Beijing[18] organised by the curator Shu Yang.
In 2020 he exhibited in Covent Gardens Our Wonderful Culture[19] alongside Stan Lewry [20] Lee is a painter[21] and performance artist[22] working with themes of taboo,[23][24][20][19]shame[25] and fear.