Crystal City - A Digital Print Series 1 - HyerimLee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hye Rim Lee

 

Born 1963 in Seoul, Korea

Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand and Toronto, Canada

 

Education

 

2002 

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Intermedia)

Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

1985  

Bachelor of Music (Voice)

Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea

 

 

Selected Individual Exhibitions

 

2005  

Super Toy, Show, Wellington

Powder Room, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland

BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, AUT gallery outdoor screen,        

Lantern Festival, AK05, Auckland

2004  

BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, Starkwhite, Auckland

2003  

The Birth of TOKI: hundreds and thousands, Starkwhite, Auckland

Bunny Boom, Rip Shit and Bust Gallery, Auckland

2002  

Hello Toki ;), Moving Image Centre, Auckland

 

 

Performance

 

2003 

TOKILAND, Interdigitate 2003, St James Theatre, Auckland

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2006   

Open Studio Exhibition, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea

Fiction@Love / Forever Young Land, Museum of  Contemporary Art    

Shanghai, China, curator: Victoria Lu

Fiction@Love / Ultra New Vision of Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum,

Singapore

2005  

Paradiso D’amore: New Aesthetics of Animamic Age,

The Hangzhou West Lake Expo Museum, Millennium Museum, Beijing,                   

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, curator: Victoria Lu

MadeKnown, UTS gallery, Sydney

The TSB Collection Show, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

2004   

Break/Shift, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curator: Greg Burke,

Simon Rees

Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington,

Mediaplex, NZ Film Archive, Wellington, curator: Emma Bugden,

Water Works, RM 103, Auckland

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

Extra Lives, a selection of works from Arcadia exhibition at Govett-Brewster

Art Gallery, the Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland

Sublime Metaphor, Oxford Museum, England, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas

City, USA, curator: Jan White

Portraiture, te tuhi – the mark gallery, Auckland

Upfront: the foyer art project, AK03, Generator Bates office and Price

Waterhouse Coopers building foyer, Auckland, curator: Derrick Cherrie,     

Hanna Scott

Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New

Plymouth, curator: Hanna Scott

Cuckoo: Put Out More Flags!  Moving Image Centre, Auckland

TOKI/Cyborg, Bunny Boom, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland

2002  

Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curator: Simon Rees

Hello TOKI ;), Creative New Zealand office, Auckland

Nightvision, Freyberg Place, High Street, Auckland

Small Time, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland

Pelvic Trust 2, 37 Crummer Rd, Auckland

The Bold and the Beautiful, Grantham Galleries, Auckland

2001  

Elamlive@SCAPA, Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland

Streets Ahead Streets Apart, NZ Film Archive, Auckland

Goggle Box, Light Box, Auckland

 

Film Screenings

 

2005   

TOKINARA, Viewfinder, NZ Film Archive Window Project, Auckland

TOKINARA, Rear Window Project, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

TOKI/Cyborg, Video After Dark, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

2002   

59 men, Bunny Cubed, I See, Channel 31, Melbourne, Australia

59 men, Film Archive Window, Auckland

59 men, ShortFuse31: A Night Of Short Film, The Classic, Auckland

 

 

Filmography

 

2002   

Bunny Cubed, short film, DV, 4mins

2001   

E BANG IN, short film, DV, 4:40

59 men, animation, DV, 44sec

Yang Sang Choo, short video, DV, 40sec

2000   

Say Sexy, short video, DV, 41sec

 

 

Awards, residencies and commission

 

2006    

Bananaland, Auckland City CBD Project Commission, Auckland

Ssamzie Space Studio Programme artist in residence, Seoul, Korea

2005    

Asia New Zealand Foundation Fund

Arts Board: Creative and Professional Development, Creative New Zealand

2004    

Screen Innovation Production Fund, Creative New Zealand and NZ Film Commission

2003    

Arts Board: New Work, Creative New Zealand

2002    

Elam Art Scholarship    

 

 

Selected bibliography

 

2005   

RudolphHudsucker, ‘Fantasy and Confrontation’, White Fungus, issue 5, December, pp.22-27

T.J McNamara, ‘Stacks of style and horsepower’, New Zealand Herald, December 14,  p.B5

Natasha Conland, 'Passing Through: A Base in New Zealand Art'.  Broadsheet: Adelaide, vol.34 no.2, June-August 2005, pp.84-86

Andrew Clifford, ‘TOKI the alien bunny grows into a woman’, New Zealand Herald, June 15, p.B6

T.J McNamara, ‘Transformations are executed with elegance, yet make a powerful impact’, New Zealand Herald, June 1, p. B5

William McAloon, ‘The Arrival Lounge’, New Zealand Listener, vol.197, no. 3383, March 12-18, p.48

Simon Rees, ‘Focus: Changing Address’, Visit, #7, Summer/Autumn, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, p.11

2004   

Rebecca Rice, ‘Exhibitions, Wellington’, Art New Zealand, No 112/Spring,

p.52

William McAloon, ‘The grand illusion’ New Zealand Listener, July 17~23,

vol.194, no.3349, p.46

Jaenine Parkinson, ‘Hye Rim Lee’, NZ Art Monthly, July ~ August, available

online at http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz

Emma Bugden, ‘Welcome In’, Telecom Prospect 2004 exhibition online

catalogue, www.telecomprospect2004.org.nz

T.J.McNamara, ‘The galleries: Art of saying one thing and meaning another’,

New Zealand Herald, March 17, p.B5

Gregory Burke, ‘Recent exhibitions in New Zealand’, Art & Australia, #41

no.3, p.478

2003    

Hanna Scott, Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art

Gallery, New Plymouth, p.30

Natasa Kruscic, 'Hye Rim Lee and The Birth of TOKI', NZ Art Monthly,

December, available online at  http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/kruscic_001.html

Sue Gardiner, ‘AK03, Artnotes NZ North Island’, Art Monthly Australia, #165, p.37

Virginia Were, ‘The graduates’, Art News New Zealand, #23, p.54

Rhoda Fowler, ‘Hye Rim Lee’ Portraiture, te tuhi – the mark, p.27

Simon Rees, ‘Point Break’ Visit, #5, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New

Plymouth, p.5

 

 

 

 

 

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