Lee held his eighth individual ceramics exhibition in Taiwan just recently, sponsored by the Taichung City Government's Bureau of Culture. Lee has been living in New York, the art capital of America, for nearly 30 years now, and he even runs a successful restaurant there, but his parents are in Taiwan, and he has a ceramics workshop here (Chun Ching Kiln) that his students run for him.
今春才在台中市文化局舉辦第八次回國個展的李茂宗，儘管已經在美國藝術大都會紐約定居了近三十年，又經營餐飲事業有成。然因父母親在台灣，又有交由學生幫他管理的「純青窯」陶瓷廠。