Hye Rim Lee
Education
2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Intermedia and Time Based Arts)
Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
1985
Bachelor of Music (Voice)
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
Hye Rim Lee, Boyd Dunlop Gallery, Napier, New Zealand
Crystal City, Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015
Lucid Dream, Urbis Design Days, Studio Italia, Auckland New Zealand
2014
Lucid Dream, Black Rose, Glass Box, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2013
The Fantastic World of Hye Rim Lee,The James Wallace Arts Trust, The PAH Homestead,
TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland New Zealand
Hye Rim Lee, Animation Revelation, Sir Paul Reeves Building, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
Crystal City Spun, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2010
Crystal City, Candyland, Berengo Akatsu Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Crystal City, Candyland, Art Edition, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
Crystal City, Venice Project, Venice, Italy
2008
Crystal City, Max Lang Gallery, New York, USA
Crystal City, Diehl Projects, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Crystal City, GACMA, Malaga, Spain
2007
BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, 24HR ART -The NT Centre for
Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
Obsession/ Love Forever, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
Candyland,Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2005
Super Toy,Show, Wellington, New Zealand
Powder Room,The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2004
BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2003
The Birth of TOKI: hundreds and thousands, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2002
Hello Toki ;), Moving Image Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
2016
Animamix,Art:1 New Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
Arrival. Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
Dialogue with Senses, Gallery Fatahillah, Jakarta, Indonesia
25thAnnualWallaceArtAwards2016,The Pah Homestead, TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Summer Celebration, A Showcase of International Contemporary Art,Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, New York
자인- 한국프랑스의미인, 코리아나 미술관 소장품 기획전, Space C, Coreana Museum in Seoul, Korea
Glassfever, Contemporary Art in Glass, Dordrecht Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands
The Need for My Care,Kate Shin Gallery, Waterfall Mansion, New York, USA
S.O.S. Save Our Souls, Art for a time of urgencies. EMAP2016, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Circuit screening, 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2015
The "F" Word: Feminism in Art, The Untitled Space, New York, USA
Kontemporary – Fermented Souls,Kate Shin Gallery, Waterfall Mansion, New York, USA
Group exhibition, Spring Catalog, Gow Langsford Gallery,,Auckland New Zealand
Group exhibition, Kate Shin Gallery Waterfall Mansion, New York, USA
Group exhibition, Boyd Dunlop Gallery., Napier, New Zealand
THE WRONG GALLERY, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Performance Arcade,Wellington Waterfront, Wellington New Zealand
Urbis Design Days,Studio Italia, Auckland New Zealand
2014
Time Art Impact, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
From The Land of Morning Calm to The Land of the Long White Cloud,Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei, New Zealand
Art Ache,Golden Dawn, Auckland, New Zealand
SONY: Art of Life,4k projector global launching show, Kate Shin Gallery, Waterfall Mansion, New York, USA
Feel Life, Summer Art Festival,KATESHIN New York, New York, USA
Prism, Nam Jun Paik and New Media Art,Gyeongnam Art Museum, Korea
Voicing the Visible: Feminist art from the University of Auckland Art Collection, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
Double Mirror, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, USA
The Big Egg Hunt, Starship Foundation, Auckland
Tools for Trade, Paul Nache Gallery Auckland
Japonism in Contemporary Art, Nippon Gallery, Nippon Club, New York
2013
#2 “New Scenes”, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA, Seoul, Korea
Artist Dinner, Golden Dawn, Auckland, New Zealand
K-Surrogates, Art Amalgamated, New York, USA
Threshold,Crossing Borders Between Video, Performance, and the Visual Arts, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
A Different View: Pornography in the Public Eye, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
New Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Lips Painted Red, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway
Intermodel curated by Number 8 Collective, Octagon. the Dunedin Fringe Festival 2013, Dunedin, New Zealand
2012
A.T.E. (Art+technology=Experiment), Amelie A Wallace Gallery, SUNY College, New York
Foodies, Westport Arts Center, Connecticut, USA
The Double Dirty Dozen and Friends, Freight+Volume, New York
Glasstress Beirut, Beirut Exhibition Center (BEC), Lebanon
Kate Shin Waterfall Mansion Project,New York, USA
The Art On Your Wall, Artclub1563, Seoul, Korea
Te Ata Tu: The New Light, Gus Fisher Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand
The MOMENTUM Collection, Musraramix Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
Sky Screen, Momentum|Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Future Pass, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Indomitable Women, Festival Miradas de Mujeres, Madrid, Spain
MIE, Freight+Volume, New York, USA
Toy Stories, Westport Arts Center, Connecticut, USA
2011
Slap Happy, Wynwood Walls, Miami
Future Pass, Wereld Museum, Rotterdam
Glasstress Stockholm, Millesgarden Museum, Stockholm
Dream_Whitenight, Samsung Media Art Exhibition, The Square of Daegu City Hall, Daegu, Korea
Mr. Rabbit in Artland, Geonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
Crystal City: Contemporary Asian Artists, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
Glasstress2011, Collateral Event- 54thVeniceBiennale,PalazzoCavalliFranchetti,Venice
Future Pass, Collateral Event- 54thVeniceBiennale,PalazzoMangilli-Valmarana,Venice
Momentum Collection, Collateral Event- 54thVeniceBiennale,Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice
Group exhibition, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2010
Group Exhibition,Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Open This End,Air Tree, Madrid Pavilion, The World Expo 2010 Shanghai, China
Nice Work, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
Indomitable Women, Off Loop, Francesca Bonnemaison Cultural Centre, Barcelona, Spain
The Fantastic Garden, Changwon Asia Art Festival, Korea
Mediators, National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
Beyond Mediations, II Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
New Stories from the Edge of Asia: Plastic Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
Desirable Fairytale, KORUS House, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington DC, USA
Restricted, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver
2009
Recent Acquisition, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Indomitable Women, Barcelona Contemporari Art Festival (BAC 10.0), Fundacio Joan Miro, Montjuic Park and CCCB: Centre de Cultura Contemporana de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Animamix Biennial- Visual Attract and Attack, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, MoCA Kaohsiung, Taiwan,Today Art Museum in Beijing, China
In Bed Together, Royal/T, Los Angeles, USA
Mind Topology, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Garden of Desire,KT&G, Daegu, Korea
The International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon, Korea
Glasstress, a collateral exhibition, The 53rdVeniceBiennale,IstitutoVenetodiScienzeLettereedArti,PalazzoCavalliFranchetti,Venice,Italy
Shoes Or No Shoes?,SONS, Belgium
Leisure, A Disguised Labor?,Sinn Leffers Department Store, Hannover, Germany
Paradise is elsewhere, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
BOOM BOOM: super heroine, super beauty, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2008
We are unsuitable for framing, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Night Shift, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
Asian Art Now, Max Lang Gallery, New York, USA
Ciencia Tecnologia Arquitectura, Asociacion de Galerias Andaluzas de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
Summer Group Exhibition, Max Lang Gallery, New York, USA
The Joy of Sex, White Square Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
The Subject Now, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Mirror States, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia
Videotheque, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary Korean Art from the National Museum,Korean Cultural
Centre, London, England
Art-Speak: Works from The University of Auckland Art Collection,The Gus
Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Luxury of Love,Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York, USA
2007
ISCP Open Studio Weekend, International Studio & Curatorial
Program, New York, USA
Business and Pleasure volume 2, International Studio & Curatorial
Program, New York, USA
Shall We Smell?Space C, Coreana Meseum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Videoteque, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Group Show Part 2, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006
The sea that has two names, video art from Korea, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand
Power Ball 6, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
OFF LOOP ’06 Festival, New Zealand Scapes, Espai Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
OFF LOOP ’06 Festival, Busan Biennale 2006, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
The Original Neo Aesthetics of Animamix MoCA Shanghai, China
EXPOSED: black box & crystal ball, cross-cultural contemporary media art project in public sites, London, England
Animamix,Hangzhou The 2nd China International Cartoon and Animation
Festival, Hangzhou, China
Open Studio Exhibition, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea Fiction@Love / Forever Young Land, MoCA Shanghai, China
2005
Paradiso D’amore: New Aesthetics of Animamic Age, The Hangzhou West
Lake Expo Museum, Millennium Museum, Beijing, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
MadeKnown, UTS gallery, Sydney, Australia
The TSB Collection Show, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
TOKINARA, Viewfinder, NZ Film Archive Window Project, Auckland, New Zealand
TOKINARA, Rear Window Project, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
TOKI/Cyborg, Video After Dark, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2004
Break/Shift, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington,
Mediaplex, NZ Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand
2003
ICECA – Initiative for Cultural Exchange and Computer Arts, CHIANGMAI
FIRST NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, CMU Art Museum, Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Intersculpt, Snowwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Extra Lives, a selection of works from Arcadia exhibition at Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, the Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Sublime Metaphor, Oxford Museum, England, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, USA
Upfront: the foyer art project, AK03, Generator Bates office and Price
Waterhouse Coopers building foyer, Auckland, New Zealand
Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Cuckoo: Put Out More Flags! Moving Image Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
TOKI/Cyborg, Bunny Boom, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
E Bang In, Film Archive, Auckland, New Zealand
2002
Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Hello TOKI ;),Creative New Zealand office, Auckland, New Zealand
Nightvision, Freyberg Place, High Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Small Time, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
59 men, Bunny Cubed, I See, Channel 31, Melbourne, Australia
59 men, Film Archive Window, Auckland, New Zealand
59 men, ShortFuse31: A Night Of Short Film, The Classic, Moving Image Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Performance
2015
Photoshoot,Studio Italia, Urbis Design Day, Auckland, New Zealand
2013
Four TOKIs,ArtDEGO, The Nathan Club, Auckland, New Zealand
2010
Crystal Beauty: Electro Doll, Arko Theatre, Seoul, Korea
2008
Crystal Beauty: Electro Doll, Max Lang Gallery, New York, USA
Crystal Beauty: Electro Doll, Mighty Mighty, Wellington, New Zealand
Crystal Beauty: Electro Doll, Canpbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
2007
Pink Glitter Pantyhose, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2003
TOKILAND, Interdigitate 2003, St James Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand
Documentary film
TOKI Does New York, A Documentary about Hye Rim Lee, Director Dan Salmon, Octopus Pictures, TVNZ commission, premiered in New Zealand as a part of DOCNZ documentary film festival
Award, Residency and Commission
2016
Wallace Art Awards finalist, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Arts Grant, Arts Board, Creative New Zealand
2013
Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Design and Creative Technology, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand
Arts Grant, Arts Board, Creative New Zealand
2011
Quick Response Grant, Arts Board, Creative New Zealand
Arts Grants, Arts Board, Creative New Zealand
2010
Independent Filmmakers Fund, Creative New Zealand
2008
Screen Innovation Production Fund, A partnership between Creative New
Zealand and the NZ Film Commission, New Zealand
2007
International Studio and Curatorial Program artist in residence New York
2006
Screen Innovation Production Fund, A partnership between Creative New
Zealand and the NZ Film Commission, New Zealand
Asia NZ Foundation Fund, New Zealand
Bananaland, Auckland City CBD Project public video commission, New Zealand
Ssamzie Space Studio Programme artist in residence, Seoul, Korea
2005
Asia NZ Foundation Fund, New Zealand
Arts Board: Creative and Professional Development, Creative New Zealand
2004
Screen Innovation Production Fund, A partnership between Creative New
Zealand and the NZ Film Commission, New Zealand
2003
Arts Board: New Work, Creative New Zealand, New Zealand
2002
Elam Art Scholarship, New Zealand
Public Collection
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Coreana Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Ernst&Young, Auckland, New Zealand
Gallerie Volker Diehl Berlin, Germany
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea
Saatchi&Saatchi Worldwide
Saatchi & Saatchi NZ, Auckland, New Zealand
C-Collection, Principality of Liechtenstein
Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
LeeAnn Gallery, Daegu, Korea
Byron Aceman Collection (BAC), Canada
Private Collection further information available upon request
Lectures and Artist Talks
2016
Artist talk, New Zealand Embassy, Seoul, Korea
2015
Artist talk, Lets Talk Program, Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Artist talk, Whitefcliffe College of Art, Auckland, New Zealand
Artist talk, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Artist talk for Time Art Impact, Minsheng Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2013
Artist talk, TOKI Does New York, The James Wallace Arts Trust,
The PAH Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland New Zealand
Artist talk, Epsom Grammar, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Interview with Jeff Koons, Jeff Koons Studio, Chelsea, New York
Artist talk, Hye Rim Lee, SUNY College, New York
2008
Workshop (2 weeks), university of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
2005
April 18, Artist talk, TOKI/Cyborg Project: game, pop and cyber world, Visual design, AUT university, Auckland
January 21, Artist talk, TOKI/Cyborg Project: game pop and cyber world, Digital Art History,
The University of Auckland, Auckland
2004
September 16, Artist talk The Evolution of TOKI, Art History class, Lynnfield College, Auckland
August 20, Artist talk, The Evolution of TOKI, Fantastic Worlds course, Unitec, Auckland
