Advocate

Holly Lee is originally from Hong Kong, China. She worked as a professional photographer from 1980 to 1995 during which she had participated in numerous group shows and held several solo exhibitions. She was awarded an Asian Cultural Council fellowship in 1994 and was the recipient of the Grand Award and two Gold Awards from the Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers (1995) and Best of Multimedia in the Pan Pacific Digital Artistry Competition (1996). She was one of the founders and editors of Dislocation magazine - a Hong Kong-based monthly journal on contemporary photography from 1992 to 1999. Holly Lee moved to Toronto at the end of 1997. Together with her partner Lee Ka-sing, they set up LEE Ka-sing gallery in 2000, which is considered one of the earliest galleries in North America to introduce contemporary Asian, especially Chinese photography.

Residency

Huang Yan will be taking part in a residency at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada in February of 2008.