John Lees

Who is John Lees?

John Lees is an American contemporary expressionist artist who works primarily in painting.

Lees received the 2005 Francis J. Greenburger Award and has also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symonds Art Purchase Award in 2010, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant in 1993 and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1989. His paintings are included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Fogg Art Museum, The New Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Arkansas Art Center, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Tucson Museum of Art.

Lees also served as an art professor for 40 years at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, the School of Visual Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, State University of New York at New Paltz, and Mt. San Antonio College.