Critical Distance DIRECTORY Yaniya Lee

Yaniya Lee’s writing and research track Black creative practice and narratives of liberation across the nation. She is the author of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (2024, figure ground/Art Metropole) and Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024, Artexte). 

Lee has taught or written about art for universities, museums and institutions across North America and Europe including Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, de Appel Amsterdam, Dutch Art Institute, Momus, Toronto Biennial of Art, Art in America, British Vogue, Vulture, Racar: Canadian Art Review, Chatelaine, Canadian Art, C Magazine, The Fader, Flash Art, Montez Press, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

She was a member of the editorial team at Canadian Art magazine from 2017–21.