李小镜出生于重庆,自幼随家人移居台湾。大学在台湾中国文化学院主修西画,毕业后赴 美进修并获艺术硕士学位,目前定居于纽约。李小镜在纽约以美术指导起家,七十年代末期转任摄影师。曾从事时装及人文摄影多年,八十年代起他将摄影转移用在艺术创作的领 域裡;九十年代兴起的电脑科技使他得以将绘画、摄影与创作等经验整合为一种独特的媒材。
首先以相机将人物拍成肖像,再把图像输入电脑,李小镜将众生犹自无定的蜕变,逼出半人半兽一般的造型。他并以适切的题目为这些系列作品命名为; 十二生肖(Manimals)、审判(Judgment)、 108众生像(108 Windows)、源(Origin)、夜生活(Nightlife)、成果(Harvest)、丛林(Jungle)、梦(Dreams)及马戏团(Circus)。这些作品自 1993 年起,先后于纽约 O.K. 哈里斯画廊(O.K. Harris Works of Art)展出,及时吸引了 PBS 及 BBC 电视台, 纽约时报(New York Times)、美国摄影杂志(American Photo)、Zoom、Art Life、Creative Technology 等杂志的注意。接著在法国、义大利、英国、日本、台湾、葡萄牙、加拿大、德国、中国、韩国、澳大利亚、瑞典、俄罗斯以及美国各地美术馆和艺廊,路续的展出这些系列作品。
李小镜的“十二生肖”,採用了中国传统属性为题材。在“审判”与“108众生像”裡则用了佛家轮迴的理念。另一方面, 他亦朊膺达尔文的进化论及科技申展,可以从“源”、“夜生活”与“成果”这几件作品所探讨的主题看出其中关联。
李小镜曾应邀为美国哈佛大学、玛利兰艺术学院、纽约 Syracuse 大学、纽约时装学院、北京中央工艺美院、上海大学美术学院、台湾成功大学演讲及台中东海大学客座。他的作品并被编入包括美国耶鲁、西北、华盛顿、英国牛津、利物浦等大学出版的艺术教科书及刊物。
重要展览:2016 李小镜回顾展 (台北市立美术馆)、2016 NEXT (国立台湾美术馆)、2014 李小镜/媒变 (上海 OCT 当代艺术中心)、2012 德国文件展、2011 (美国圣安东尼美术馆个展)、2007 亚洲双年展 (国立台湾美术馆)、2006 上海双年展 (上海美术馆)、2005 奥地利电子艺术节(大会主题艺术家)、2004 英国 Whitstable 双年展(大会重点艺术家)、2004 暴露:20世纪人体摄影展(德国 Stadtische 美术馆)、2004 幻想艺术(奥地利 Landes 美术馆)、2003 威尼斯双年展、 2003 变形(伦敦科学博物馆,主题艺术家)、2002 因子(巡迴于美国伊利诺州 Block 美术馆、柏克莱美术馆、西雅图 Henry Art 美术馆)、1999 美国洛杉矶美术馆举办的 1850~2000 肖像摄影回顾展以及葡萄牙里斯本 CCB 中心举办的 Cyber 99(大会重点艺术家)等。
重要收藏:纽约布鲁克林美术馆、台北市立美术馆、上海美术馆、国立台湾美术馆、高雄市立美术馆、美国新墨西哥州美术馆、奥地利 Landes 美术馆、法国 Musee de la Mode de la Ville de Paris 美术馆、英国 Wellcome 美术馆、韩国斧山美术馆、西班牙 Escultura Figurativa Internacional 现代美术馆, 瑞典自然历史博物馆、澳大利亚 White Rabbit Collection, 俄罗斯Krasnoyarsk美术馆及德国文件展永久收藏等。
Beginning from stark portraits photographed with a high resolution digital camera, Daniel Lee submits his pictorial subjects to the digital wringer, provoking their unsettling metamorphosis into animal-like forms. He appropriately entitled these series “Manimals”, “Judgement”, “108 Windows”, “Origin” and “Nightlife” initially shown at O.K. Harris Works of Art Gallery in New York since 1993, in addition, these works attracted the attention of publications like PBS Television, BBC News, New York Times, American Photo, Zoom, Wired, Art Life, Harper’s, Creative Technology magazines and gallery and museum exhibitions in France, Italy, England, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal, Canada, Germany, Austria and Australia.
Known as Lee Xiaojing in Chinese, born in Chunking, China (1945) and raised in Taiwan. He moved to United States after he received his BFA in painting from College of Chinese Culture. Then he got his MA degree majored in Photography and Film from Philadelphia College of Art and worked as an Art Director in New York until the late seventies, at which point he changed to photography as a career. Within one and a half decades, he went through different stages in fashion, people to still life collage. Since 1993, computer technology allowed him to combine his various drawing, photographic and fine art skills in one medium.
Daniel Lee’s work has been shown internationally in solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan (2016), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2016), OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China (2005), O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York (1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005), the East Gallery, Taipei (2005), Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2004), CCB Center, Lisbon (1999), the Galerie du Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse (1995), the Fotofo Gallery, Bratislava (1995), both of his “108 Windows” and “Origin” in video installation have been shown in the 2003 Biennale of Venice, to be chosen as the fetured artist by Ars Electronica 2005, Linz, Austria and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany 2012, .
Lee has lectured at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University (2005), Maryland Institute College of Art (1997), Ithaca College, New York (1998); the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York (1990); the Beijing Central Art Institute (1986) and the Art School of Shanghai University (1984).
His photographs are included in public and private collections such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Shanghai Art Museum; the National Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Art Museum and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts; the Musee de la Mode de la Ville de Paris; Landes Museum in Linz, Austria; Busan Museum of Art, Korea; Merck & Co., Seattle; Wellcome Collection, London; Museum Center Krasnoyarsk, Russia; White Rabbit Collection, Australia and Documanta, Kassel, Germany.