Lee Tek Khean, known as “Little Chicken,” is a Malaysian‑born printmaker based in Taiwan and a doctoral candidate in Contemporary Visual Culture. He treats the woodcut knife as a surgical instrument—using rigorous carving and high‑contrast print language to record, resist, and reinscribe the present. His research traces how printed matter becomes art—how technique, reproducibility, and curatorial judgment transform images into objects of aesthetic and political force.
Working across print and networked media (notably the Gaigaau / Chicken Cult series), Lee examines reproducibility, memory politics, and the manufacture of belief, while his diasporic perspective interrogates family memory, spatial politics, and identity, producing layered narratives that traverse national and cultural boundaries.
Lee is based in Taiwan. Trained at National Taiwan Normal University and Taipei National University of the Arts and currently a doctoral candidate in Contemporary Visual Culture at the National Taiwan University of Arts. His work is in public collections: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; National Taiwan Normal University; Taipei National University of the Arts; Guanlan Printmaking Base, China; Tama Art University, Tokyo; Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts; Tainan City Cultural Affairs Bureau.
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Gaigaau, 2025
