Kacie Lees - kacielees.com

Kacie Lees is an artist, author, and professor in Art & Technology Studies - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL We see her in her studio screenprinting her latest book Neon Primer, a 200-page, coil-bound educational text illuminating the hidden nature of light via the craft of neon bending. Saturated with golden footnotes sourced from exhibition catalogs, pivotal light artworks, films, etymology, and classic cultural influences such as “Schoolhouse Rock!”, this handbook has a high 90s aesthetic, chunky black and fluorescent exploded-view graphics, tear-out bending patterns, posters, and material guides that bring the text into the 3D space of the studio.

She Bends c.v.

2017, Museum of neon art, Los Angeles, “She Bends: women in neon”

2018, The Midway Gallery, San Francisco, “she Bends: Women in neon”

2019, var west gallery, milwaukee, “she bends: women in neon”

2020, loveland museum, colorado, “she bends: women in neon”

2021, de young museum, san francisco, “a film & conversation with the women in neon: exploring the flase dichotomy of art and science, the history of nobel gas, the craft of neon glass blowing, and the future of neon lights”

2022, sentral + She Bends neon artist residency program, los angeles

2023, THe museum of glass tacoma, washington, “she bends: redefining neon legacy”