Lee Chun Fung

Lee Chun Fung (李俊峰, born 1984) is a Hong Kong-based artist, curator, writer, and researcher whose engagement with printmaking is primarily curatorial and historiographic rather than studio-based. He completed a B.F.A. in Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2007, and has spent the subsequent two decades working at the intersection of contemporary art, community-based practice, and the social history of woodcut in Asia.

From 2009 to 2015 Lee co-founded and directed Woofer Ten, a community-arts space in the working-class Yaumatei neighbourhood of Kowloon. The organisation operated less as a conventional gallery than as a neighbourhood platform, organising street-level projects, workshops, and dialogues that linked artistic production to questions of urban gentrification and grassroots life in Hong Kong. His video installation Monument of Vanishing Shop (2017), shown at the 2nd Jeju Biennale in South Korea, documented the closing-shop banners that proliferated across central Hong Kong during a wave of small-business displacement, and is the work most cited as his individual artistic output.

Since 2018 Lee's principal long-term project has been the Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping Group, a research collective he co-founded with Krystie Ng (Hong Kong) and Li Ding (Beijing) that has subsequently expanded to include collaborators across Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and elsewhere. The collective's work has been published as Inter-Asia Self-organised Woodcut Collectives Mapping Series (Vol. I and Vol. II, distributed by Printed Matter and Intellect Books) and exhibited at the 8th Yokohama Triennale in 2024 at the Former Daiichi Bank Yokohama Branch.

The group's premise is that the renewed interest in woodcut across East and Southeast Asia in the 2010s mirrors a similar surge from the 1930s, and that this current movement should be read against the social conditions and self-organising structures that have produced it. Lee's contribution to the project is largely as researcher, mapper, and editor — interviewing collective founders, documenting alternative spaces, and articulating the political-aesthetic genealogies that link contemporary Asian woodcut groups.

In addition to the Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping work, Lee has curated or co-curated 'Narrating Localities: Printmaking Practices in Inter-Asian Perspective' (Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 2025), a survey of nineteen Asian printmakers, and has contributed scholarly writing on the history of left-wing woodcut in Hong Kong. He is profiled by Independent Curators International (ICI) and lectures at international print and art-research events.

Within Hanga's contemporary print scope, Lee functions as a critical and infrastructural figure — a curator and historian of the Asian print revival rather than a practicing printmaker. His direct artistic output in the print medium is limited; readers seeking his published research can consult the Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping volumes, Methods of Art's interview series, and his Academia.edu profile.