Lee Plested is a curator based in Vancouver and Berlin. Recent exhibition projects include Apparition Room an archival exhibition conceived to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Western Front, Vancouver; the poets have always preceded, Vancouver Art and Poetry, 1960 – present, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, which dug into the city’s rich history of collaboration between the visual and the literary; Primary Research Lab: Minimalist Labs and Field Research, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, where viewers were given frameworks to investigate Minimalist art in the round; and Material Witness, Mario Garcia Torres and Konrad Wendt, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, which juxtaposed primary source documents to reappraise the near non-forms of Conceptualism. He is currently the Director of Setareh Berlin. Lee Plested is a fellow in partnership with the DRG Foundation supporting the Franco- Canadian cultural exchanges