Brenda Joy Lem is a third generation Chinese Canadian multi-media artist. She is a writer of poetry and prose, and a visual artist (print-making, collage, drawing and film). Lem graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Lanscape Architecture and furthered her education at the Ontario College of Art. She is active in the arts community addressing racial discrimination. Her work has been shown at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival; the Asian American International Film Festival, NYC; the Montreal International Chinese Film Festival; and Images 90, Toronto.