Lee Plested is a curator based in Vancouver, Canada and Berlin, Germany. Recent exhibition projects include 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.