BIO 背景
Born in Taipei, Lee Shapiro is an American multidisciplinary artist with a background in product design and visual communication. Educated in Toronto, Canada, she currently resides in Los Angeles.
Her work takes a poetic approach to exploring personal and collective identities, diversified through the lenses of migration, language formation, mixed cultural structures, natural capital, and historical artifacts.
A true lifelong artisan, she has worked with many prominent brands, and its ateliers, in Asia, North America, and Europe over the past two decades. She has also performed music in underground venues and embarked on street art missions in midnight alleys worldwide.
Statement 宣言
After decades of working with products shaped by advanced tanneries, mills, and manufactories, I will most likely be found in the analog realm, working with common shapes and simple tools—the kinds of things found in a child’s playroom, where we all began.
Here, we imagine without boundaries or measurement. We execute visions without judgment. We do not outsource the work, because everything is possible, and I can be anything.
Whether it is a note, a sound, a teardrop, a snowflake, a saddle, a seahorse, or a pearl in a dreamscape, what is created here becomes a vessel of time, a symbol of a journey. Each piece carries traces of growth and documents the path toward the stars.
Through this pursuit of identity, we listen for the quiet rhythm beneath it all—the unfolding symphony of life.