Emily Shin-Jie Lee is a cultural practitioner and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her work is often realised through discursive formats involving multiple interlocutors. She studied anthropology at National Taiwan University and obtained her research master’s degree in art studies from the University of Amsterdam.
Emily currently works at Framer Framed as head of research with a focus on residencies and cross-institutional collaborations. Recent projects she coordinated include Past Disquiet (2025), Tanah Merdeka (2023), Archipelagic Affects (2023), the KITLV-Framer Framed residency programme (2022-), and the residency programme at Werkplaats Molenwijk in collaboration with the social practice workshop at Rijksakademie (2022-2024). Since 2022, she has been working on a PhD project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam, in which she studies art residency and its critical engagement with ecological, feminist and decolonial enquiries.
Emily is one of the founding members of Lightbox, a public photo library and center for contemporary photography in Taipei; co-founder of Limestone Books, an art book store in Maastricht; and co-founder of Hide & Seek Audiovisual Art, a multidisciplinary collective focusing on cultural mediation and alternative pedagogy. Prior to her relocation in the Netherlands, she worked at nichido contemporary art with a focus on exhibition projects between and across Taiwan and South/East Asia.