Brenda Joy Lem
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A River Runs Through Me
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$600 (Unframed)
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Nourbese
30 x 22 Inches  (paper size)
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$500 (Unframed)
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Reunited
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Promenade on River Street
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It Furthers One to Cross th Great Water
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The Nature of Water
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Picnic on the Moose Jaw River
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Grace
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Zion
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Grants, Awards
Exhibitions  Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council, January 2007, for Continuous and Unbroken

Film Video Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council, January 1999,  for Five Aunties, a documentar

Visual Art Project Grant, Canada Council January 1999, to silkscreen a series of artist books, Doo Nging & Bo

Visual Art Project Grant, Toronto Arts Council, January 1997, to silkscreen prints for Fan Ngukkei

Received various grants since 1994


Art Publications
AZN Axis Postcard, Collage for Mayworks, anti war evening of performances,  May 2002

A Space Postcard Commissioned collage, You’ve Come A Long Way, June 1999

Mayworks Festival Poster, Commissioned collage, Art Strikes Back , for the Festival's theme piece, May 1999

In publications since 1995

Art Reviews
Kinetic Moment for Asian Art, Review of Doo Nging & Ngukkei by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, March 2000

Blast Off 2000, Review of Doo Nging by Jeff Goods, CBC Fresh Air Program, Dec 1999

Art Returns Home Review of Fan Ngukkei by Betty Ann Jordan, The Globe and Mail, August 1997

In converssation with the artist Review of Ngukkei  by Min Sook Lee for Mercer Union , August 1996

Panel Discussions and Papers Presented
Chinese Canadian. Women Leave Their Mark Tarragon Theatre Extra Space, Nightwood Theatre  panel, March 2004

Self Expression and Identity, Alexander Muir Public School Talks, Feb 1999

Artist as activist & community builder, University of Toronto, guest lecturer for Nourbese Philip's Course, 1995, 1996

In practice since 1993

Selected Collections
City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
National Library of Canada
Franklin Furnace Artists' Book Archive, NYC
Toronto Public Library
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
University of Maryland
San Francisco Art Institute

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007   In Her Presence, Open Studio Print Sales Gallery, Toronto

1999   Blast off 2000, York Quay Gallery, Toronto

1998   Uncommon Traits: Relocating Asia, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Exhibiting since 1988

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006   Continuous and Unbroken, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

2005   Crossings, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

2003   Going Home, Maywork Festival of Working People and the Art, Toronto, ON

2002   Ngukkei, premiere of Five Aunties, Richmond Art Gallery, B.C.

2002   Ngukkei & Doo Nging, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York City

1999   Seduction and Resistance, Trinity Square Video Gallery, Toronto, ON

1997  Fan Ngukkei, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON