Yaniya Lee advocates for a critical approach grounded in material practice. Drawing on her recent work with textile artists in Edmonton, Lee makes a case for criticism that attends to how black artists work, focusing on their materials, methods, and processes, while calling for more diverse voices to engage with these practices.
Yaniya Lee
Yaniya Lee is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose work draws on narratives of liberation to develop new methodologies for art criticism, art history, and archival practice. Recent projects include Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (2024), a collection of her writing, and the Black Canadian Art History Scholarship Database (blackartstudy.ca), a searchable catalogue of theses and dissertations on Black art in Canada.
Coming together for the first time in my tenure without a prompt, the following issue nonetheless feels as though it is circling something specific, even if that something is difficult to name.
