LEE WELCH was born in Louisville, KY in 1975. He is currently undertaking an MFA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and gained his BFA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
His work has been exhibited widely, including the solo exhibitions: At the still point of the turning world., Galway Arts Centre, Galway (2009); Never Odd or Even and other pieces, The LAB, Dublin (2008); falling somewhere in-between, Queen Street Studios Gallery, Belfast (2006).
Welch's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, most recently Love Letter To a Surrogate, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (2010); DONE TO A DEAD END & THE DEAD OR ALIVE SALE, SD&G, Rotterdam (2010); The Nature of Things, Le Petit Port, Leiden (2010); Clifford Irving Show curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2009); MISSING LINK, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest (2009); Non-knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2008); Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas (2008).
Welch has recently received the Banff Residency at The Banff Centre, Canada (2010), an Arts Council Bursary (2008) and the Travel & Training Award (2009/10) as well as support from Culture Ireland (2009/10) and an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Council (2008).
He has contributed to publications such as the CCA's 2HB Volume 6, a quarterly publication dedicated to creative writing, Shifter 16 : Pluripotential, a multi-disciplinary magazine that was launched in Printed Matter and the forthcoming Options with Nostrils edited by Alexis Vaillant.
Welch was Founder and Director of FOUR, an exhibition space in Dublin and has recently formed One Thousand and One Nights a project which appears through a myriad of guises and forms that frames a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present.
Lee Welch lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.