1956 Born in Scotland
1975-1979 Edinburgh College of Art
1979-1980 Travelling scholarship to USA
1980-1983 Royal College of Art, London. MA (RCA)
Museum Solo exhibitions
2022-23 Made in Japan, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ditchling, UK
2019 Jennifer Lee: the potters space, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Jennifer Lee: A personal selection, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
1994 Jennifer Lee -Handbuilt Ceramics 1979-1993, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland, UK
1993 Jennifer Lee -Handbyggda Stengodskärl 1979-1993, Röhsska Museet, Göteborg, Sweden
Solo Exhibitions since 1999
2023 Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2021 Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
2019 Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
2018 Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2017 LVS Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
2015 Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
The Institute of Ceramic Studies Gallery, Shigaraki, Japan
2013 Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
2012 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
2010 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
2008 Galerie Besson, London, UK
2006 Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
2003 Galerie Besson, London, UK
2002 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
2000 Galerie Besson, London, UK
1999 James Graham & Sons, New York, USA
Museum Group Exhibitions
2023 Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
The Art of the Potter: Ceramics and Sculpture from 1930 to Now, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
2022 The Fourth Dimension: To the Future of Vessels, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan
2021 Of The Earth - Contemporary Ceramics and Glass from The Fitzwilliam Museum, Heong Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2020 Started it in England: Leach and Hamada, in Two Ways, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan
HOUSE OF CRAFT,Korean Craft Museum, Cheongju. South Korea
Artists in Residence in Mashiko: Irina Razumovskaya & Jennifer Lee, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan
Clay and Abstraction: When Memories become Form, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko, Japan
2019 The Diana Reitberger Collection, The Gardiner Museum,Toronto, Canada
Salisbury Collection of Studio Ceramics, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Modernity & Elegance: Bernard Leach, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Jennifer Lee, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan
Exchange and Experimentation - Toward a New Generation of Ceramic Art, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
POTs - the Vessel, The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
75th Scripps College Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, USA
Materiality: Masterworks from The Miller Ceramic Art Collection, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York
2018 - 2019 Handheld, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
2018 The Dramatic Vessel, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Ceramics, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Masters of British Studio Pottery, Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
LOEWE Craft Prize 2018, Design Museum, London, UK (Prizewinner)
Timeless Secrets - Ceramic Artists in Their Own Words, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon, UK
2017 The Ehrlich Collection of American and British Ceramics, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, USA
Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Ceramics, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
The Dramatic Vessel, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
2015 Vessels: The Spirit of Modern British Ceramics, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko, Japan
2014 Toward a DESIGN MUSEUM JAPAN, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan
British Ceramics from Bernard Leach to New Generation, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
2013 International Ceramics, Verkehr Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Friendship Forged in Fire: British Ceramics in America, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California, USA
2011 Contemporary British Studio Ceramics, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2009 U-Tsu-Wa, Lucie Rie, Jennifer Lee, Ernst Gamperl, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Studio Ceramics: The Dauer Collection, California State University, Sacramento, California, USA
The Cellmark Collection, Röhsska Museet, Göteborg, Sweden
2008 British Studio Ceramics - 20th Century Transformations, Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, UK
2006 Collect, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Puur Klei, Pottenbakkers Museum, Tegelen, The Netherlands
2005 Celebrating 30 Years, Crafts Council at the V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Biennale Européenne de Céramiques Contemporaines,Musée de l’Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière, Troyes, France
Modern Pots: Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Contemporaries, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
2004 European Ceramics, Westerwald Museum, Westerwald, Germany
2003 Ceramic Biennale 2003, Icheon World Ceramic Centre, Icheon, Korea
Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, UK
Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove, UK
2002 Bavarian Craft Council, Munich, Germany
The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2001 Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1st World Ceramic Biennale 2001, Icheon World Ceramic Centre, Icheon, Korea
Modern Pots, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
Bengt Julin's Ceramics, Gustavsbergs Porslinsmuseum, Gustavsbergs , Sweden
2000 Britisk Keramik.2000.dk, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Grimmerhus, Denmark
Color and Fire, Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
1999 Current Context - New Ways of Seeing, Royal Museum, Edinburgh, UK
Clay into Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
25 Years of Contemporary Craft, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
1998 Gestaltendes Handwerk, Munich, Germany
Collecting Craft, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, Hove, UK
Spirit of the Times, Bowes Museum, Durham, UK
1996 Living Belsay, Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK
Design im Wandel: Produkte, Fetische, Rituale, Übersee Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Bremen, Germany
Awards
2020 Order of the British Empire(OBE)
2018 LOEWE Foundation, Craft Prize, Winner
2001 1st World Ceramic Biennale, Korea, Award of Honour
1998 Bayerischer Staatspreis, Germany
1994 Scottish Arts Council Exhibitions Grant, UK
1991 The British Council, Grants to Artists, UK
1989 The British Council, Grants to Artists, UK
1987 Crafts Council, London, Special Project’s Grant, UK
Crafts Council, London, Individual’s Grant, UK
1985 Jugend Gestaltet Prize, Munich, Germany
1984 Mathildenhöhe Award, Darmstadt, Germany
1983 Allen Lane Penguin Book Award, RCA, UK
Crafts Council, New Craftsman’s Grant, UK
1979 David Gordon Memorial Trust Prize, Scotland
Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship to USA, ECA, Scotland
Public Collections
UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Aberdeen
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
British Museum, London
Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury
Contemporary Art Society, London
Crafts Council Collection, London
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries, Glasgow
Hepworth Museum, Wakefield
Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Hove
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich
Pallant House Art Gallery, Miniature Art Gallery, Chichester
Peters Foundation, London
Royal Museum, Edinburgh
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Scottish Collection, SDA, Edinburgh
Thamesdown Collection, Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon
Trustees Savings Bank Collection, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Japan
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki,
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Sasayama
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
Canada
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
Germany
Europäisches Kunst Handwerk Landesgerwerbeamt, Stuttgart
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Rödental
Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Peter Siemssen Foundation for Ceramic Art
New Zealand
Hawkes Bay Art Gallery and Museum, Napier
South Korea
Amorepacific Museum, Seoul
Spain
The Loewe Foundation
Sweden
CellMark, Göteborg .
National Museum, Stockholm
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg
Switzerland
Musée Ariana, Geneva
Musée Bellerive, Zurich
USA
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Long House Reserve Collection, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
Scripps College, Claremont, Claremont, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York