Born 1964, Taiwan
Lives and works in Berkeley, California and New York City
1989-93
concentrating in New Genre Public Art
California College of Arts & Crafts. Bachelor of Fine Arts with
Honors in Textile Arts
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
1999
1998
1997
1993
Sherman
Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Inaugural Show, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
Through Masters' Eyes, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts. Los Angeles,California
Shueito Legends, Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinman. Taiwan
Arnolfini Center of Arts, Bristol, England
The Tourist Project, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Harvard Seers Project, Harvard University OFA, Cambridge, MA
Pantheon Project, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
The Tourist Project, Rice University Art Museum, Houston, Texas
Shadow and Its Double, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The Living Room Project, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Sleeping Project, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Empathic Economies, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Empathic Economies, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Lee Mingwei 1994 to 98, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Way Stations, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Letter-Writing Project, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
InteractExchange, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Osmosis, Isabel Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA
Inaugural Show, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
Through Masters' Eyes, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts. Los Angeles,California
Shueito Legends, Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinman. Taiwan
Arnolfini Center of Arts, Bristol, England
The Tourist Project, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Harvard Seers Project, Harvard University OFA, Cambridge, MA
Pantheon Project, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
The Tourist Project, Rice University Art Museum, Houston, Texas
Shadow and Its Double, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
The Living Room Project, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Sleeping Project, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Empathic Economies, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Empathic Economies, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Lee Mingwei 1994 to 98, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Way Stations, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Letter-Writing Project, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
InteractExchange, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Osmosis, Isabel Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1989
Liverpool Biennial–International Festival of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
New Commission, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
New Commission, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Trading Places, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Man of the Crowd, Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, Baltimore MD
Spice Box Invitational, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, Arnolfini Center of Arts, Bristol, England
Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany
El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Whitney Seers Project, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
We are the World, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Fiction. Love, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
Limbo Zones, Venice Biennale, Taiwan Pavilion, Venice
Away from Home, curated by Annetta Massie, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Inaugural Exhibition, Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, OH
The Magic Makers, Des Moines Center of Art, IO
Mind Space, Ho-AM Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
The Gift, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
The Gift, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, IL
Siteline, Mosquito Cinema, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
The Gift, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Male Pregnancy Project, Kaoshung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
Male Pregnancy Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Mixed Ingredients, curated by Amy Cappellazzo & Margaret
Miller, American Center for the Food, Wine and Arts, Napa, CA
The Gift, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
The Bayberry Bush, curated by Ingrid Schaffner & Melissa Feldman, The Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
The Shrine Project, curated by Jerome Sans, Taipei Biennial, Taiwan
Worthless, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Gift of Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
AsiaPacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Where Are You? Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
Plural Speech, Group Exhibition, White Box, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro NC
Money For Art, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
The World View, Deutsche Bank, New York
Reflection, Yale Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
Installation in commemoration of the Tienanmen Massacre,
Broadway & Tenth, Oakland, CA
Boyce, Roger. "The Art of Lee Mingwei,” Art New England, February/March, 2000
Brown, Alan. "Lee Mingwei,” Out Magazine, February, 2000, pg. 34
Chan, Hwehua. "Lee Mingwei: Whitney Seers Project." Art Today
Chang, Buoshun. “The Sleeping Project,” United Daily, January 15, 2001
Chang Ju-Ping. "The Men Behind the Installations," Taipei Times, September 3, 2000
Chen, Chin-Chin. "Performance Art, " United Daily, Taiwan, October 11, 1997
Cheng, Scarlet. "A Master Revisited." Los Angeles Times
Chin, Wu Tsieh. "Interact Exchange Conceptual Performance Show,"Ming Pao Daily News, Hong Kong/NY, June 9, 1997
Ching, Yagin. “The Sleeping Project,” Art & Collection, February 2001
Clifford, Katie. “Touch Art,” ARTnews, May 2001
Lin, Lucas. “Seven Chinese New York Arts,” Art & Collection, September 2001 Consoli, Grace. "Lee Mingwei: The Living Room,” Arts Media,
Cotter, Holland. "Lee Mingwei, Projects 80" New York Times
--- "Asia Week Is Here, There, Everywhere " New York Times
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum catalogue. ISBN 0-914660-13-6
Doran, Anne. Review: "Interact Exchange," Time Out NY, June 18, 1997
Edwards, Alison. "The Harvard Seers Project" Harvard Arts Spectrum"
Gardiner, Beth. "Museum Preserves Dinner Dialogue," Associated Press, July 30, 1997
Gewertz, Ken. "Is this art?" Harvard University Gazette
Glueck, Grace. "Youth and Experience Transforming a Tow" New York Times
Goldstein, Brian. "Art Installation to bring seekers, "seers"……" The Harvard Crimson
Green, Charles. "The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,” artext, No. 68, February - April, 2000, pg. 85
Hopkins, Randi. "Ritual Exchange,” The Boston Phoenix, March 24, 2000, pg. 12
Hu, Yung-fen. “’I am a Magician!’ Lee Mingwei, A Fantasy-Creating Artist,” ArtChina, March, 2000, N0. 18, pg. 44
Huang, Baopin. “The Sleeping Project,” Minshen Daily, January 15, 2001
---“Lee Mingwei’s LACAM Project: Through Masters Eyes” Mingshen Daily
---“Lee Mingwei’s Bohdi Project in Australia” United Daily
Hsieh, Hui-Ching. "Money for Art," Ming Pao Daily News, Hong Kong
August 8, 1997
Jacob, Mary Jane. “Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art,” ISBN: 0-520-24346-3
Jones, Stefan. "The Dining Project," SJS Radio, USA, July 28, 1997
Karson, Kay. “To Take Part in the Art, You Sleep with the Artist,” New York Times, November 5, 2000
Kastner, Jeffrey. "MoMA to MoCA, Storm King to Fogg,” New York Times,
September 10, 2000
Kee, Joan. "Resting with Mingwei: Subversive Cosmopolitanism in the Conceptual Project of Lee Mingwei" May 2002, Yishu
Kendzulak, Susan. "Taipei Biennial 2000," Taipei Times, September 17, 2000
Kino, Carol. "My Dinner With Mingwei," Time Out New York, July 1998
Larson, Kay. "Healing Power of Art," New York Times, Nov. 15, 1998
Lebre, Elayne. "Surprises," Elle Magazine (French edition),September 1997
Lee, Weijin. “The Sleeping Project,” China Times, January 15, 2001
Levin,Kim. "InteractExchange," Voice Choices, The Village Voice, June 10, 1997
Lin, Lucas. "Money For Art," World Journal, New York, October 9, 1997
Lin, Meishie. "Lee Mingwei: Whitney Seers Project for the Whitney Biennial" Liberty Times
Long, Charles. “Top Ten,” ARTFORUM, March 2001
Lu, Frankie. "Fiction. Love" Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art
Lu, Victoria. "Lee Mingwei: Through Masters' Eyes" Artist Magazine
Marcoci, Roxana. "Project 80s Lee Mingwei: The Tourist" The Museum of Modern Art
---"The Anti-Historicist Approach: Brancusi, Our Contemporary," Art Journal, Summer 2000
Moore, Janet. "Rebel Without a Genre" Jan. 18th 2002, Asian Wall Street Journal
Myles, Eileen. "Mingwei Lee," Art in America, November 1997
Namba, Sachiko. Review: "The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art," Chungoku Shinbun Newspaper, November 13, 1999
---Review: "The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art," Art Monthly, October, 1999
Pan, Gan. “Lee Mingwei: Whitney Seers Project,” China Times
Rice, Robin. "Between Heaven and Hell," Philadelphia City Paper, November 20, 1998
Schwabsky, Barry. "Subject X - Notes on Performative Art Part 1," Art+Text, #60, 1998
Sozanski, Edward. "Letter-writing as art and a devotional," Philadelphia Enquirer, November 6, 1998
Sprawl, Tessa. "The Dining Project," CBC Radio,Canada, August 1, 1997
Stein, Judith. “Lee Mingwei, Beyond the Future,” The Third Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, 1999
---“Lee Mingwei at the Whitney Museum,” Art Asia Pacific, April, 1999, Issue 22, 91
Sydell, Laura. "The Dining Project," WNYC Radio, NPR, July 28, 1997
Thea, Carolee. "Lee Mingwei" March 2002, Sculpture Magazine
Tsai, Eugenie. "Projects 80: Lee Mingwei, The Tourist" Time Out New York
---"Lee Mingwei: Project 80,” Art Asia Pacific.
Temin, Christine. "Art on Main" Boston Globe
---"Seeing, believing art put to the test at Harvard." The Boston Globe
---"Postal Modernism," The Boston Globe, April 7, 2000
Weisgall, Deborah. "Lust in the Gallery, Larceny in the Heart" New York Times
---“Lee Mingwei's ‘Please Make Yourself At Home In The Art’,” The New York Times, April 23, 2000
Wu, Vivian. "The Success of The Dining Project,” World Journal, NY,
June 23, 1997
Zimmer, Carol. "The Dining Project," NBC Radio, New York, August 4, 1997
---"The Art of Nurturing," Tricycle, Sept. 1996
---"Art in Experience," Greater Boston Arts, WGBH, April 19, 2000
---"The Best Museum Shows of 1998," Time Out NY, Dec. 31-Jan 6, 1999
----"Cultural Heroes: Lee Mingwei," Utne Reader, March 1997
---“The Letter Writing Project,” The International Design Magazine, July/August, 2000
---“Limited Photo Edition by Lee Mingwei,” TRANS>, #8 2000
---“Mr. Mom,”Yahoo Magazine, Oct. 2000
---“Two Artists: Gerhard Richter and Lee Mingwei,” Ninety (Art in the 90's), No 29, Fall 1998
Selected Grants, Residencies, and Special Projects
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1997
Artist in Residence, Oxbow School, Napa, California
Visiting Artist, DanJian University, Taipei, Taiwan
Visiting Artist, Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Visiting Artist, UC Irvine, CA
Visiting Artist, Taiwan National Art Academy, Taipei, Taiwan
Visiting Artist, Columbia University, NY
Visiting Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MA
Artist in Residence, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine
Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artist, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Art Institute, MI
Artist in Residence Award, Wexner Center for the Arts, OH
Artist in Residence, Rice University Art Gallery, TX
Artist in Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, MA
Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for Contemporary Art,
Sausalito, CA
Artist in Residence, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor,
Maine
Artist in Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Artist in Residence, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor,
Maine
"Conversation on Art-Out of Asia," Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, moderated by Eugenie Tsai
Joan Mtchell Grant Award
"Facilitation for the Time Capsule," for Day Without Art in New York, a collaboration of Visual AIDS, The Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time, and Art AIDS
Selcected Public Collections
Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
YAGEO Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Glory Yeh Museum of Fine Art, Shinchu, Taiwan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA