Jaee Tee is a multidisciplinary Malaysian artist whose practice explores ecological grief, material memory, and the entanglements between land and humanity. Her work responds to the environmental scars left by deforestation and illegal extraction across Southeast Asia — symptoms of...
Read MoreJaee Tee is a multidisciplinary Malaysian artist whose practice explores ecological grief, material memory, and the entanglements between land and humanity. Her work responds to the environmental scars left by deforestation and illegal extraction across Southeast Asia — symptoms of anthropocentric systems that are rendering our planet increasingly uninhabitable.
Rooted in her upbringing in Malaysia and her diasporic Chinese heritage, Jaee’s techniques draw from Chinese ink traditions, calligraphy, and batik, blended with the gestural energy of Western abstract expressionism. Guided by New Materialist thought, she treats materials as capable of holding memory and history. Her work often incorporates earth pigments, crushed stone, soil, and branches collected from extraction sites — materials that embody memory, the passage of time, and destruction. Yet within these layers, her work also gestures toward hope — a quiet imagining of the potential for healing and regeneration.
Jaee has exhibited across Asia and Europe, including in Milan, Paris, the Maldives, Germany, and Taiwan. She has also collaborated with prestigious brands such as British luxury carmaker McLaren and Banyan Tree Hotels, extending her artistic practice beyond the walls of galleries and museums.
