Nikki S. Lee

Nikki S. Lee ( * 1970 in Kye - Chang, South Korea Lee Seung- hee ) is an artist and filmmaker living in New York City.

Biography

Nikki S. Lee was born in 1970 in the small town of Kye - Chang in Korea, where she grew up also. In 1993, she made ​​the College of Arts, Chung- Ang University in Seoul, her BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and settled in 1994 in the U.S. on, where she continued her studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and graduated in 1996. Your subsequent master's degree at New York University, she successfully completed in 1999. In 2002 she received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

Lee's most famous works, which they titled as Projects' ( projects) ( 1997-2001), she began while she was still studying. Lee lived during the projects for several weeks at different social groups ( for example, The Punk Project 1997, The Hispanic Project 1998 and The Skateboarders Project 2000 ) and tried to integrate into this. A member of this group or a friendly person shot at this time snapshots of Nikki S. Lee within the group. The aim is to observe the interactions within a group and the analysis of the self-chosen identity.

In 2006, she published the conceptual " documentary " AKA Nikki S. Lee presented here as two different personalities: a reserved active academic and extroverted celebrities. Premiere was on October 5, 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Essays on Lee's work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and magazines such as Artforum, Art in America, Art Journal and the New York Times. So far, two monographs have been published about their work: Nikki S. Lee: Parts. Text RoseLee Goldberg ( Hatje Cantz, 2005), and Nikki S. Lee: Projects. Essays by Russell Ferguson and Gilbert Vicario ( Hatje Cantz, 2001).

Projects

  • Projects 1997 - 2001
  • Parts 2002 - 2005

Book publications

  • Nikki S. Lee - Projects. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern- Ruit 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1091-4.
  • Nikki S. Lee - Parts. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern- Ruit 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1672-7.
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