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Lee Relvas is an artist and writer living in New York.
A recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and residencies at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and Yaddo, she has had solo shows at Canada Gallery (NYC), Callicoon Fine Arts (NYC), and Artist Curated Projects (Los Angeles).
She has also exhibited and performed at The Whitney Museum, MoMA, The Hammer Museum, ONE National Lesbian and Gay Archives, the Brooklyn Museum, SculptureCenter, Art in General, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, among others.
Her fiction has been published in BOMB Magazine and Joyland Magazine, and is forthcoming from Epiphany Magazine.
bombmagazine.org
"Pierre", a short story by Lee Relvas, published in BOMB Magazine, 2020.
www.joylandmagazine.com
"Moneybags", a short story by Lee Relvas, published by Joyland Magazine, 2017.
Watch Lee speechify about collectively dropping out of grad school
In 2015, Lee Relvas was among the group who became known as the "USC 7" after the entire class dropped out of USC's MFA program, a collective action taken in protest of the school's reneging on promised funding. Six months later, she did a talk about the experience at Creative Time's annual summit.
Listen to Lee read out loud in public
Lee reads an excerpt of her short story "A Genius" at the Hard to Read series in NYC in 2025.