Lee Kai Chung is an artist and researcher who lives between London and Hong Kong. His recent exhibitions include Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (UAE, 2023) and Wandering, Walking (Gwangju Asia Culture Center, 2023). In 2016, Lee established the collective ‘Archive of the People’, which serves as an extension of his personal research and includes collaborative projects, education and publications. In collaboration with curator Shen Jun, Lee founded stepbackforward.art and PhantomArchives.com in 2020 and 2022 respectively: the former is an online platform collecting artist archives, fragmented thoughts and artist methodology; the latter extends Lee’s 'Displacement' series to a public domain, constituting an online archive that embraces public participation. He was awarded Honourable Mention at the Sharjah Biennial 15 and the Taoyuan International Art Award in 2023; The Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University in 2022; the Altius Fellowship from Asian Cultural Council in 2020 and the annual Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) from Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2018.