Nikki S. Lee - Biography

BIOGRAPHY SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008	Layers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

2007	Nikki S. Lee: Projects and Part, GAK, Bremen, Germany

2006	LT/Shoreham Gallery, New York

2005	Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Mo.

2007	Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2003	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York Nikki S. Lee, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France

2002	Galerîa Senda, Barcelona Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tenn.

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

2000	Gallery Gan, Tokyo Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

1999	Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

FILM SCREENINGS a.k.a. nikki s. lee (2006)
2008	Mistaken Identities, University of Southern California

2007	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo. Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Tex. The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wis. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Berlin Film Festival The Cleveland Film Festival (presented by MOCA Cleveland) The Hong Kong Film Festival Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival The Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles

2006	New York-Shangri-La, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Indianapolis Museum of Art Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (premiere)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009	Focus on Photography: Works from 1950 to Today, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

2007	Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Beauty and the Blonde, The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, N.Y. Persona, Yancey Richarson Gallery, New York Role Exchange, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York Auto Emotion, The Power Plant, Toronto transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, ARKO Art Center, Seoul; Hanoi Fine Arts Museum, Vietnam RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Feminine Mysterious, Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm Beach, Fla. Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Calif. Out of Body, Deutsche Bank Art, Level B Gallery, New York

2006	Pictures of Women, Quality Contemporary Art, Portland, Ore. Transformative Protraits: Altered Identities in Contemporary Art, Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Penn. Summer Photo Redux, Cheryl Numark Gallery, Washington D.C. Metro Pictures, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; The Moore Space, Miami Will Boys Be Boys?, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography, The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

2005	Embodiment, Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. New Art. New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Austria Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, N.Mex. Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wis. The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photograpy, The Jewish Museum, New York Maximum Flavor, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. Morir de Amor, Museo Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City Things Fall Apart, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago Focus On: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla. Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago A Kiss Isn’t Just A Kiss, Contemporary Galleries, University of Connecticu, Storrs, Conn. How To Read, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y. Common Ground, The Jewish Museum, New York Say It Loud! A Hip Hop Conversation, State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y. Will Boys Be Boys? (curated by Shamim Momin), Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Col. White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York. Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, San Diego Museum of Art

2004	In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. Beauty Matter, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York Self Exposed, Daiter Contemporary, Chicago Picturing Modernity: Photographs from The Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Contested Fields, The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Seattle Art Museum Portraits and Places: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y. Sublime Audacity: The Stroller's Experience, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon Exhibiting Signs of Age, Colby College, Waterville, Me. Sugar and Snails, The Park School of Baltimore, Brooklandville, Md. Double Takes: Transformations Through the Lens, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,Ithaca, N.Y. If it's not love, it's the bomb, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Disguise, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Will Boys Be Boys?, The Salina Art Center, Salina, Kans. Imag(in)ing Western Culture, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, Mo. Contemporary Photography from the Harn Museum Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Fla.

2003	8th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey Exhibiting Signs of Age, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York Skin Deep, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C. American Dream, Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York Harlem Postcards II, Winter 2003, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York Framing the Real, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

2002	Character and Choice: Nikki Lee, Yasumasa Mormura and Tomoko Sawada, Japan Society, New York The Brixton Studio, The Photographers Gallery, London Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, England Hello My Name Is ... , Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Masquerade, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wis. Who? Me? Role Playing in Self-Portrait Photography, Zabriskie Gallery, New York One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Tribe, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco What’s Hot and New in 2002, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y. Enough About Me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, N.Y. Portrait as Performance, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Va. Mirror Image, The Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Women by Women, Cook Fine Art, New York Pictures, Greene Naftali, New York Presenting/Receiving: Subjecting Photography, Center for Photography, Woodstock, N.Y. Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Montreal Arts Intercultural, Quebec, Canada; The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; The Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

2001	One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, N.Y. Purloined, Artists Space, New York Fresh: Recent Acquisitions, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. Recent Acquisitions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Open City: Street Photographs 1950–2000, Modern Art Oxford, England; The Lowry, Salford Quays, England Bodily Acts, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. The Volatile Real, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Chelsea Rising, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Tell It Like It Is: Photography, Galerie Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin

2000	Staged and Manipulated: Photographic Fictions from St. Louis Collections, The Saint Louis Museum of Art, Saint Louis, Mo. The Bigger Picture, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, International Center of Photography, New York Process/Reprocess: Japan and the West, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y. The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea Déjà Vu, Art Miami 2000, Miami Represent: A Show of Identities, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. Who's That Girl?, Teseco Fondazione per l'Arte, Pisa, Italy The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Fifty Women Artists, DC Moore Gallery, New York ID Y2K: Identity at the Millenium, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, N.Y.

1999	Mug Shots, The Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Guarene Arte 99, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per L'Arte, Turin, Italy The Calendar Project, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Who's That Girl?, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York Generation Z, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y. Open: Nikki Lee: Projects, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn. Mug Shots, The Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for the Arts, Summit, N.J. No Place Rather Than Here, 303 Gallery, New York The Cultured Tourist, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago

1998	The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Mo. The Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Milwaukee Art Museum The La Salle Bank, Chicago, Ill. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. The Marieluise Hessel Collection, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, N.Y. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. International Center of Photography, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Bronx Museum of the Arts Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The New School, New York Sinex Collection, Oslo Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Me. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla. Indianapolis Museum of Art Deutsche Bank Banco Espirito Santo, Lisbon
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2009 Identity Theft: The Cultural Colonization of Contemporary Art. Edited by Jonathan Harris c. Liverpool Univ Press & Tate Liverpool 2009 ISBN 9781846311024 2008 Lee, Phil. “indefinite Nikkis in a world of Hyperreality: An Interview with Nikki S. Lee,” Chicago Art Journal Volume 18, 2008 Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography, c. National Museum of Women in the Arts 2008 ISBN: 978-1-85759-583-3 Rosenberg, Karen. The New York Times : Week in Review, December 4, 2008 Time Out New York: Medium Cool Page 78 November 2008 Jones, Amelia. “1970-2007: The Return of Feminist Art,” X-TRA, volume 10, number 4, Summer 2008 Pearce, Emma. ‘Photographer Nikki S. Lee’s Triple Exposure,’ Vulture, New York Magazine, 12-3-08 2007 Berger, Arion. "The Fine Art of Self-Concealment," Washington Express, March 8, 2007 De Jesus, Carlos Suarez. "Darling Nikki- Meet the Mistress of Reinvention," Miami New Times, April 12, 2007 Finkel, Jori. "Saying the F-Word," Artnews, February 2007 Kuhn, Nicola. "Das Chamäleon trägt Brille," Der Tagesspiegel, February 13, 2007 Lee, Nikki S. "The Girl Stays in the Picture - My Life from the Inside Out," KoreAm Journal, March 2007 Wild, Leonie. "Ich bin alle und keine," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 13, 2007 2006 Bayliss, Sarah H., "His Friends and Neighborhoods," Artnews, November 2006 Jones, Amelia. Self/ Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject (New York: Routledge, 2006) Kraft, Jessica. "Nikki S. Lee," Whitewall, Fall 2006 Yablonsky, Linda. "Hollywood's New Wave," Artnews, December 2006 Berwick, Carly. “Nikki S. Lee: Extreme Makeover,” ARTnews, March 2006, pp. 110–13 Berwick, Carly. “Artist Nikki S. Lee Films Herself Filming Herself at MoMA,” Bloomberg.com, October 3, 2006 Lee, Carol, “Nikki S. Lee- Film: a.k.a. Nikki S. Lee,” Paper Magazine, October 2006 Rosenberg, Karen. “Show and Tell Nikki S. 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