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Lee Wells

Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York. His artwork primarily questions systems of power and control and has been exhibited internationally including the 51st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, www.ifac-arts.org, an alternative exhibition and installation program for artists and curators.

His artwork, projects and exhibitions have been written about by various national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Art in America, and Art Net. Wells is currently a curator at large and Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs www.scope-art.com and is a site editor for www.rhizome.org. http://www.leewells.org

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Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant based in New York; his work questions systems of power and control and has been exhibited internationally, including the 51st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. He is co-founder and director of IFAC-arts (www.ifac-arts.org) and his projects and exhibitions have been covered by The New York Times, Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Art in America and Art Net. He serves as curator at large and Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs (www.scope-art.com), is a site editor for www.rhizome.org, and maintains http://www.leewells.org.

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