1997 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors in Textile Art, California College of the Arts, CA, USA
Barliant, Claire, Pieranna Cavalchini, Audrey Hsia, Casey Riley, Tiffany York. 2019. In the Company of Artists. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Biennale d’art contemporain (Lyon, France). 2017. Mondes Flottants = Floating Worlds : 14e Biennale de Lyon. Dijon: Les Presses du réel.
Asian Art Museum. 2017. Flower Power.
Biennale di Venezia, and Christine Macel. 2017. Viva, arte, viva: Biennale arte 2017. New York: Rizzoli International Publications.
Biennale of Sydney, and Stephanie Rosenthal. 2016. The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.
Kent, Rachel, and Safdar Ahmed. 2016. Telling tales: Excursions in Narrative Form.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.). 2017. The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look at Art.
Smith, Stephanie. 2013. Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art.
Barata, Vasco, Pedro Barateiro, Carlos Bunga, Carla Cruz, Ângela Ferreira, and Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro. 2013. ReaKt: olhares e processos = views and processes. Guimarães: Guimarães 2012 Capital Europeia da Cultura.
Biennale of Sydney, M. Catherine de Zegher, and Gerald McMaster. 2012. 18th Biennale of Sydney 2012: All Our Relations. Woolloomooloo, N. S. W.: Biennale of Sydney.
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Paul Domela, and Lewis Biggs. 2011. Touched. Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Manchanda, Catharina, Whitney Ford-Terry, and Jessica Powers. 2011. All things equal.
Queensland Art Gallery, and Miranda Wallace. 2010. 21th Century: Art in the First Decade. South Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Art Gallery.
Ulrich, Matthias, Max Hollein, and Josef Loretan. 2010. Playing the City 2 Ploötzlich bist du mittendrin : 20 Kunstaktionen in 20 Tagen. Berlin: Absolut Medien.
Finkelpearl, Tom, and Valerie Smith. 2009. Generation 1.5. Queens, N.Y.: Queens Museum of Art.
Biennale d’art contemporain (Lyon, France), Hanru Hou, and T. Raspail. 2009. Le spectacle du quotidien = the spectacle of the everyday : Xe Biennale de Lyon. Dijon: Les Presses du réel.
The Enlightenments. Edinburgh: Edinburgh International Festival, 2009.
Asian Art Biennial. 2008. Have you eaten yet? 2008 Asian Art Biennial. Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Fleischman, Stephen, and Jane Simon. 2006. Between the lakes: Artists respond to Madison. Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, and Paul Domela. 2006. International 06. Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Cai, Guoqiang, and Chieh-hui Lu. 2006. Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen Island: A Permanent Sanctuary for Art in a Demilitarized Zone. Milano: Charta. Taiwan: Kinmen County Government.
Clark, Martin, and Catsou Roberts. 2005. The storm is what we call progress. Bristol: Arnolfini.
Whitney Biennial, Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer. 2004. Whitney Biennial 2004.
Collins, Thom, Michel Foucault, Lisa Buck, Matthew Distel, and Laura Stewart. 2003. Somewhere better than this place: Alternative social experience in the spaces of contemporary art. Cincinnati, Ohio: Contemporary Arts Center.
Limbo Zone. 2003. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Massie, Annetta, Jan Avgikos, Mark Cousins, and Jeffrey Kipnis. 2003. Away from Home. Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University.
Stroud, Marion Boulton, and Kelly Mitchell. 2002. New Materials as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
COPIA: American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts, and Doreen Schmid. 2001. Active ingredients. Napa, California: COPIA.
Meraniello, Gianfranco, Sergio Risaliti, and Antonio Somaini. 2001. The Gift Il Dono: offerta, ospitalità, insidia. Milano: Charta.
Schaffner, Ingrid, and Melissa E. Feldman. 2001. About the Bayberry Bush. Southampton: Parrish Art Museum.
Tōkyō-to Gendai Bijutsukan. 2000. The gift of hope. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. 1999. Beyond the future: The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery.
Tate Modern, London, UK
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
M+, Hong Kong
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, México
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, USA
YAGEO Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
JUT Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, USA
Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Lee, Mingwei, Stephanie Rosenthal, and Clare Molloy. 2020. Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts and Rituals. Berlin: Gropius Bau and Milan: Silvana Editoriale. ISBN: 978-8836646036 (English, German)
9 Histoires. 2018. Dijon: Les Presses du réel. ISBN: 978-2-37896-030-8 (English/French/Chinese)
Lee, Mingwei, Mami Kataoka, and Yi-ting Lei. 2015. Lee Mingwei and His Relations. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum. ISBN: 978-986-04-6012-4 (Chinese/English)
Lee, Mingwei, and Alan Chong. 2015. Luminous Depths: A Contemporary Project on the Museum. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum, Peranakan Museum. ISBN: 978-9810933678 (English)
Lee, Mingwei, Mami Kataoka, and Hitomi Sasaki. 2014. Lee Mingwei and His Relations. Tokyo: Mori Art Museum. ISBN: 978-4568104837 (Japanese/English)
Tsai, Eugenie, and Lee, Mingwei. 2011. Lee Mingwei: The Moving Garden. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum. ISBN: 9780872731684 (English)
Lee, Mingwei. 2010. Lee Mingwei: Trilogy of Sounds. Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute: Mount Stuart Trust. (English)
Lee, Mingwei. 2008. Lee Mingwei. South Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Art Gallery.
Lee, Mingwei, Su-Mei Tse, and Mei-ya Cheng. 2007. Duologue: Exhibition by Lee Mingwei and Su-Mei Tse. Taipei: Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei.
Lee, Mingwei, and Rhana Devenport. 2006. Lee Mingwei: The Tourist. Paddington, N.S.W.: Sherman Galleries.
Lee, Mingwei, Stephanie Barron, and J. Keith Wilson. 2004. Lee Mingwei’s Through Masters’ Eyes. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Lee, Mingwei, and Roxana Marcoci. 2003. Projects 80: Lee Mingwei, The Tourist, New York. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
Lee, Mingwei, Kimberly Davenport, and Thomas R. DuBrock. 2003. Lee Mingwei: The Tourist Project: 17 January – 24 February 2002. Rice University Art Gallery. ISBN: 978-1932281132
Gross, Jennifer R., Mingwei Lee, and Lewis Hyde. 2000. Lee Mingwei: The Living Room. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Lee, Mingwei, and Roxana Marcoci. 1999. Lee Mingwei: 1994-1999. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
Lee, Mingwei, and Eugenie Tsai. 1998. Way Stations: Lee Mingwei. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
2021 8th Museum Ostwall MO-Kunstpreis art prize, Dortmund, Germany
2016 Annual Prize, Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan
2015 The Best in Art of 2015, The New York Times
2015 The Best Classical Music of 2015, The New York Times
2014 Artist of the Year, Queens Museum, New York, USA
1997 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors, USA