Lee Tribe

Lee Tribe was born in Danbury Palace, Essex, England on 3 October 1945, growing up in Essex , aside the River Thames, as part of the post war overspill from East London. At 15 years of age he began an apprenticeship as a steel worker in the Docklands of London becoming a Journeyman Plater in 1966. Eight years later he was awarded a coveted place as a student in the Sculpture Department of St Martin’s School of Art, London, graduating top of his class with a BA First Class Honors. He went on to achieve a Masters Degree at Birmingham School of Art, England.

In 1977 he was selected to exhibit his work in the gardens of the Serpentine Gallery, London as part of a Summer Show. Later that year he left the UK to begin work on a Barnet Newman Scholarship at the New York Studio School, (Where Tribe is still a faculty Member).

He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in both America, the UK and many other countries around the world. Lee Tribe has achieved several awards in sculpture and drawing including fellowships from the Ingram Merrill, Solmon. R. Guggenheim, and Pollack-Krasner, Foundations. In 2010 he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Arts and in 2016 received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award as well as their Purchase Award. In 2019. He was the sole British representative at a sculpture symposium at the Luxon Academy of Art, Shenyang, China. Followed by making and installing post war a large work in the Tangshan Delong International Sculpture Park , Hebei Province China.

Tribe has work in Museums, Art Galleries and Public and Private Collections around the world. He lives in New York City and Shelter Island, with his wife and daughter.