Nikki S Lee

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1970, Kye-Chang
Lives: New York / USA

Education
1999
MA Photography, New York University

1996
AAS Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

1993
BFA Chung-Ang, College of Arts, University of Korea

Solo Exhibitions
2007
- Gesellschaft f�r Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen / G
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / USA (screening)
- Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO / USA (screening)
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami / USA (screening)
- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX / USA (screening)
- The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. / USA (screening)
- The Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles / USA (screening)
- Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI / USA (screening)
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York / USA (screening)
2006
- "Nikki S. Lee's AKA Nikki S. Lee", Museum of Modern Art, New York / USA
- "Nikki S. Lee, in production", LT | Shoreham Gallery, New York / USA
- The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
2005
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, MO / USA
- Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt / D

2004
- Numark Gallery, Washington, DC / USA

2003
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH / USA
- Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York / USA
- Nikki S. Lee, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse / F

2002
- Galer�a Senda, Barcelona / E
- Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College,
Memphis, TN / USA

2001
- Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York / USA
- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston / USA
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco / USA
- The Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago /USA

2000
- Gallery Gan, Tokyo / JP
- Stephen Friedman Gallery, London /GB

1999
- Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York / USA

Group Exhibitions
2008
- �New York States of Mind�, Queens Museum of Art, New York/ USA
- �Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie�, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York/ USA
- "Female Trouble", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / D

2007
- "AUTO EMOTION",The Power Plant, Toronto / CAN
- �Beauty and the Blonde�, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO / USA
- �Art in America: Now�, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai / C
- �New York- Shangri- La�, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / D
- �RED HOT- Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection�, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / USA
- �Auto Emotion�, The Power Plant, Toronto / CAN
- �June Bride�, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York / USA
- �Role Exchange�, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York / USA
- �Persona�, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York / USA
- The Berlin Film Festival (screening) / D
- The Cleveland Film Festival (presented by MoCA Cleveland) (screening) / USA
- The Hong Kong Film Festival (screening) / C
- �Incarnation�, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY / USA
- �The Feminine Mysterious�, Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm Beach, FL / USA
- �Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now�, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA / USA
- �Out of Body�, Deutsche Bank Art, Level B Gallery, New York / USA
2006
- "METRO PICTURES", The Moore Space, Miami / USA
- "The Jewish Identity Project", Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles / USA
- "Fictions Abound, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff / USA
2005
- "The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photograpy", The Jewish Museum, New York /USA
- Hermes Korea Exhibition, Artsonje Center, Seoul / Korea
- "Person of the Crowd", The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD / USA
- "Maximum Flavor", Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA / USA
- "Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity", Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM / USA
- "Will Boys Be Boys: Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art", Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY / USA
- "Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity", The Milwaukee Art Museum / USA
- "Morir de Amor", Museo Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City / MEX
- "Things Fall Apart", Monique Meloche Gallery,
Chicago, IL / USA
- "Focus On: New Photography", Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL / USA
- "Manufactured Self", Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL / USA
- "A Kiss Isn�t Just A Kiss", Contemporary Galleries, University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT / USA
- "How to Read", The Bronx Museum of the Arts,
New York / USA
- "Say It Loud! A Hip Hop Conversation", State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY / USA
- "Will Boys Be Boys?" (curated by Shamim Momin), Independent Curators International, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN / USA
- "White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art", International Center of Photography, New York / USA

2004
- "In Focus: Themes in Photography", The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY / USA
- "Beauty Matter", Tina Kim Fine Art, New York / USA
- "Self Exposed", Daiter Contemporary, Chicago / USA
- "Picturing Modernity: Photographs from The Permanent Collection", San Francisco MOMA / USA
- "Contested Fields", The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA / USA
- "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self", Seattle Art Museum, WA / USA
- "Portraits and Places: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection", Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY / USA
- "Sublime Audacity - The Stroller's Experience", Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon / P
- "Exhibiting Signs of Age", Colby College, Waterville, Maine / USA
- "Sugar and Snails", The Park School of Baltimore, Brooklandville, Maryland / USA
- "Double Takes: Transformations Through the Lens", Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York / USA
- "If it's not love, it's the bomb", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY / USA
- "Disguise", Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester / GB
- "Will Boys Be Boys?", curated by Shamim Momin, Independent Curators International, The Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas / USA
- "Imag(in)ing Western Culture", The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, MO / USA
- Contemporary Photography from the Harn Museum Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL / USA

2003
- "Poetic Justice": 8th Istanbul Biennial (curated by Dan Cameron), Istanbul / TR
- "Exhibiting Signs of Age", Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA / USA
- "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self", International Center of Photography, New York / USA
- "Skin Deep", Numark Gallery, Washington, DC / USA
- "American Dream", Ronald Feldman Fine Art,
New York / USA
- "Harlem Postcards II", The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York / USA
- "Somewhere Better Than This Place", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio / USA
- "White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art", Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County / USA
- "Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture", CRG Gallery, New York / USA
- "Framing the Real", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York / USA

2002
- "Character and Choice: Nikki Lee, Yasumasa Mormura and Tomoko Sawada", Japan Society, New York / USA
- "The Brixton Studio", The Photographers Gallery, London
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool / GB
- "Hello My Name Is�", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA / USA
- "Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950", Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain / E; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. / USA
- "Masquerade", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI / USA
- "Who? Me? Role Playing in Self-Portrait Photography", Zabriskie Gallery, New York / USA
- "One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis / USA. Traveling to Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2003) / USA; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2004) / D
- "Tribe", Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA / USA
- "What�s Hot and New in 2002", Katonah Museum of Art, New York / USA
- "Enough About Me", Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY / USA
- "Portrait as Performance", Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA / USA
- "Mirror Image", The Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA / USA
- Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka / JP
- "Women by Women", Cook Fine Art, New York, NY / USA
- "Pictures", Greene Naftali, New York, NY / USA
- "Presenting/Receiving: Subjecting Photography", Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY / USA
- "Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture", curated by Franklin Sirmans, Gallery 101, Ontario; traveling to Montreal Arts Intercultural, Quebec; The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Nova Scotia; The Owens Art Gallery, New Brunswick