李奧森，導演與視覺藝術家，畢業於紐約州立大學媒體研究電影製作系，副修社會學，於2008年創立鬼丘鬼鏟，活躍於視覺和表演藝術領域。他的作品運用「暫時性情境」，結合擴延電影、現場藝術、錄像等形式，與不同文化背景的藝術家、電影演員、舞者、音樂家、素人、藝術學者、策展人合作，探討國家體系、系統暴力、戰爭與當代精神狀態等議題，營造出夢境般的多層次場景，以及特殊的觀看關係，其作品往往引發辯論。

影像作品展覽於柏林索瑪藝術中心、台北當代藝術館、墨西哥黑話機構、柏林世界文化宮、法國大皇宮、光州雙年展、台灣雙年展等；現場作品則展於京都藝術中心、兩廳院實驗劇場、台北藝術節等。他曾獲亞洲文化協會、洪建全基金會、國藝會、台灣當代文化實驗場、澳洲Performance Space獎助，並於2017年榮獲台新藝術視覺藝術獎。

Val Lee graduated from the State University of New York with a major in Filmmaking and a minor in Sociology. In 2008, Lee founded Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel and has been active in the fields of visual and performing arts. Lee's work utilizes 'temporal scenarios,' integrating expanded cinema, live art, and video in collaboration with artists, actors, dancers, musicians, amateurs, art scholars, and curators from various cultural backgrounds. Through these collaborations, Lee explores themes like national systems, systemic violence, war, and contemporary mental states, creating multi-layered, dreamlike scenes with unique viewer relationships that often provoke debate.

Lee’s video works have been exhibited at SOMA Art Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, the Vernacular Institute (Mexico), HKW (Germany), the Grand Palais (France), the Gwangju Biennale (Korea), and the Taiwan Biennial. Live performances have been staged at the Kyoto Art Center, the National Theater in Taiwan, the Taipei Arts Festival, and others. Lee has received support from the Asian Cultural Council, the Hong Foundation, the National Culture and Arts Foundation, C-LAB, and Australia’s Performance Space, and was awarded the Taishin Arts Award for Visual Arts in 2017.