Yaniya Lee is the author of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (2024, figure ground/Art Metropole) and Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024, Artexte).
She has published in journals and magazines including Racar: Canadian Art Review, C Magazine, Flash Art, Montez Press, and Asia Art Archive. In 2020 she co-edited a special issue of Canadian Art magazine on black artists and black art histories.
︎ yaniya@yahoo.com
Bobshop, Berlin, 2024
2025
“A Question of Power,” interview with Onyeka Igwe, Tate Etc. magazine, fall (forthcoming)
“We Don’t Need Images What It Feels Like Is Good Enough,” catalogue essay for the 2025 MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain: In Praise of the Missing Image, Montreal, fall (forthcoming)
“Wynter’s Toolbox: Notes from Artists and Scholars, ” presented at the Sylvia Wynter and the Scales of the Human Symposium, ICI Berlin, June 2025
Buseje Bailey. Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While. A Black art history project by Yaniya Lee, Book Launch at Modern Fuel artist-run centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 2025
“An Artist Subverting Propaganda Through Large-Scale Sculptures,” interview with Sandra Poulson for Solo Show in The New York Times Style Magazine, April 2025
“Three of Dawoud Bey’s Favorite Artworks” for Solo Show in The New York Times Style Magazine, February 2025
“The Historical Entanglements of Hemel,” exhibition text to accompany Danielle Dean’s film Hemel, presented at Spike Island, Bristol, spring, 2025 and Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, spring, 2024
2024
“Flood the World — Alvin Ailey,” and interview with curator Adrienne Edwards in JustSmile Magazine Issue 5, winter 2024
“Some Other Shore,” exhibition text to accompany Racquel Rowe’s exhibition The Centre of the World Was the Beach exhibition at Forest City Gallery, London, winter, 2024
“Sugar – fragments of a narrative,” text to accompany Burnt Sugar, a group exhibition at Critical Distance Centre for Curators, fall 2024
“Lyrical Theorising,” a profile of Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun author Jackie Wang in Like a Fever for Asia Art Archive, August, 2024
“What does the land know?” curated program of short films, commissioned by Videographe and presented at Dazibao, Montreal, April, 2024
“Methylene Blue,” text to accompany “New Paintings,” exhibition by Systems Research Group and Romain Löser at Guts Annexe, Berlin
“A Modern, Tragic Portrait of the Sea,” interview with Wardell Milan for On View in The New York Times Style Magazine
“The Black Artist,” reading at Bobshop, Berlin