Biografie von Nikki S. LEE (1970)
Personal data
Birth : 1970 - Kye-Chang, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
Sex : F
Nationality/Affiliation : South Korea (Republic of Korea) - United States
Address
New York NY New York, United StatesRepresentatives
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects – 12th floor 595 West 22nd Street – New York NY, United States
Education
1993 : Chung Ang College of Arts – University of Korea (BFA in photography) – Seoul, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
1996 : Fashion Institute of Technology (AAS in fashion photography) – 7th Avenue at 27th Street – New York NY, United States
1999 : NYU New York University (MA photography) – 70 Washington Square South – New York NY, United States
Professional data
Work and Life
Lee worked as an assistant to celebrity and fashion photographer David LaChapelle in New York, NY, USA.
Artist in residence
2001
2000-2001 : Residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – San Francisco CA, United States
Awarded by : Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – 701 Mission Street – San Francisco CA, United States
Work
Categorie and medium
Photography : C print Subject
self-portraitone's self/identity
portrait
Works
| The Yuppie Project (13) | |
| Date of creation : 1999 Medium : C print Size : 54 x 72 cm | |
| The Seniors Project (13) | |
| Date of creation : 1999 Medium : C print Size : 54 x 72 cm | |
| The Hispanic Project (1) | |
| Date of creation : 1998 Medium : C print Size : 54 x 72 cm | |
| The Drag Queen Project (1) | |
| Date of creation : 1997 Medium : C print Size : 54 x 72 cm | |
| The Punk Project (3) | |
| Date of creation : 1997 Medium : C print | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2001
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects – New York NY, United States
10/20/2001 – 12/01/2001
Nikki S. Lee : Projects
ICA The Institute of Contemporary Art – Boston MA, United States
07/18/2001 – 09/30/2001
2000
Stephen Friedman Gallery – London, United Kingdom
2000
1999
Nikki S. Lee : Projects
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects – New York NY, United States
1999
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2003
The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects – 12th floor 595 West 22nd Street – New York NY, United States
2002
The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects – 12th floor 595 West 22nd Street – New York NY, United States
Group exhibitions
2004
The Game Show
James Cohan Gallery – New York NY, United States
01/09/2004 – 02/14/2004
2003
Poetic Justice – 8th International Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul, Turkey
09/20/2003 – 11/16/2003
2002
One Planet under a Groove
The Bronx Museum of the Arts – Bronx, New York NY, United States
02/2002 – 03/03/2002
Women by Women in Photography
Cook Fine Art – New York NY, United States
2002
2001
Open City: Street Photographs since 1950
MOMA Museum of Modern Art – Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
05/06/2001 – 07/15/2001
Try this On !
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – San Francisco CA, United States
02/10/2001 – 05/06/2001
2000
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – Long Island NY, United States
02/2000 – 05/2000
Man + Space – Kwangju Biennale, n° 3
Kwangju, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
03/29/2000 – 06/07/2000
To Represent : a Show of Identities
The Parrish Art Museum – Southampton NY, United States
2000
1999
Who’s that girl
Sandra Gering Gallery – New York NY, United States
1999
Generation 2
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – Long Island NY, United States
1999
Guarene Arte 99
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per L’Arte – Guarene d’Alba CN, Italy
1999
No place rather than here
303 Gallery – New York NY, United States
1999
The Calendar Project
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum – Bard College – Annandale-on-Hudson NY, United States
1999
1998
The Cultured Tourist
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects – New York NY, United States
1998
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Books
2000
Fresh Cream
Publisher: Phaidon Press – Regent’s Wharf – London, United Kingdom
11/2000
ISBN : 0714891142
Exhibition catalogues
2000
Man + Space Kwangju Biennale
Publisher: Kwangju Biennale Press – San 151-10 – Kwangju, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
2000
ISBN : 8987719049
Periodicals
2002
HONIGMAN Ana – Nikki S. Lee Leslie Tonkonow
in: Flash Art n° 222 p. 94 vol. 34
Milan MI, Italy
01/2002-02/2002
1999
SCHWABSKY Garry – Openings : Nikki S. Lee
in: Artforum n° 13
New York NY, United States
09/1999
1998
ARNING Bill – The Cultured Tourist
in: Time Out – New York
New York NY, United States
03/12/1998
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