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 since worked 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 Yau Ma Tei district 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 change and grassroots life in Hong Kong. His work was also included in the Jeju Biennale in South Korea in 2017.

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 that has expanded to include collaborators — among them Li Ding (Beijing) — across Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and elsewhere. The collective's work has been published as the Inter-Asia Self-organised Woodcut Collectives Mapping Series (multiple volumes, distributed through Printed Matter and Justseeds) and was 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 is largely as researcher, mapper, and editor — interviewing collective founders, documenting alternative spaces, and articulating the political and aesthetic genealogies that link contemporary Asian woodcut groups. He has also written on the history of woodcut and self-organised art in Hong Kong and the wider region.

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. He is profiled by Independent Curators International (ICI), and readers seeking his published research can consult the Inter-Asia Woodcut Mapping volumes, the Methods of Art interview series, and his Academia.edu profile.