Born in Taiwan in 1964, lives and works in Paris, France and New York City, USA

Education

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

Solo Exhibitions

2021         
Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts and Rituals, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

2020         
Lee Mingwei and Bill T. Jones: Our Labyrinth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts and Rituals, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany 

2019         
Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Lee Mingwei: The Tourist, Perrotin Tokyo, Japan
Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Lee Mingwei: You Are Not a Stranger, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH, USA
 
2018
Lee Mingwei: Seven Stories, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia
Sonic Blossom, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Lee Mingwei: Stone Journey, Worcester Art Museum, MA, USA
Sonic Blossom, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, USA
 
2016         
Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
The Moving Garden, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Between Going and Staying, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK 
 
2015
Sonic Blossom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
 
2014         
Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Lee Mingwei: Sonic Blossom, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
 
2013         
A Quartet and A Living Room, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
Luminous Depths, Peranakan Museum, Singapore
 
2012
The Living Room, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Visible, Elusive, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tales of Flower and Stones, Espace Louis Vuitton, Taipei, Taiwan
 
2011         
The Moving Garden, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
The Travelers, Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY, USA
 
2010         
Trilogy of Sounds, Mount Stuart, Scotland, UK
Pantheon Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Baltimore, MD, USA
Lee Mingwei: Liquid Forms, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
 
2009         
Grandfather's Incline, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA, USA
The Mending Project, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY, USA
 
2008         
Guernica in Sand, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Bodhi Tree Project, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Uncommon Senses, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand  
The Quartet Project, Albion Gallery, London, UK
 
2007         
Lee Mingwei: Impermanence, Chicago Cultural Center, IL, USA
Duologue, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
 
2006         
The Tourist, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Guernica in Sand, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Pantheon Project, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
 
2005         
Through Masters' Eyes, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Through Masters' Eyes, Kaikodo Gallery, New York, NY, USA
 
2004         
Through Masters' Eyes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shueito Legends, Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen, Taiwan
 
2003         
The Tourist, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Harvard Seers Project, Harvard University Office for the Arts, Cambridge, MA, USA
 
2002         
The Tourist Project, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
The Shadow and Its Double, Eslite Gallery, Taipei Taiwan
 
2000
The Living Room Project, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
The Sleeping Project, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Empathic Economies, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, MA, USA
Empathic Economies, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, FL, USA
 
1999
Lee Mingwei 1994 to 1999, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
1998         
The Letter Writing Project, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Way Stations, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
 
1997         
InteractExchange, Lombard Freid Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

Group Exhibitions

2020
Florilegium: a gathering of flowers, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK
A Call to Attention, UCCA Dune, Aranya Gold Coast, Beidaihe, China
The Sky as a Studio. Yves Klein and his contemporaries, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China 
Measure Your Existence, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
 
2019         
The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
In the Company of Artists: 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Traversées, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France 
SOCIAL: Rethinking Loneliness Together, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, USA
The Gift, Geoffrey Bawa Centenary Celebration, Lunuganga Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Musica Mobile, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Stage Is Yours, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA / The  Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
 
2018         
Language of Flowers, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
New Materialism, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockhom, Sweden
Brief Encounters '18, Lustwarande - Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, The Netherlands 
Declaration, Institution for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Light to Night Festival 2018: Colour Sensations, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
 
2017         
Ouvert la Nuit - Festival des lumière, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
L'OFFRE, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Canada
EAT ME, Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark
PEACE, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Flower Power, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
MOVE, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Listen Hear: The Art of Sound, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Person of the Crowd, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
2016         
Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art and Everything, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Don't You Think It's Time For Love?, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
GIGANTESQUE, Vranken-Pommery Monopole, Reims, France 
That Which Remains, Mount Stuart, Scotland, UK
Telling Tales: Excursions in Narrative Form, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
The 14th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
 
2015         
Food, Shelter, Clothing: Art and Need, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY, USA
Guest what?, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 
Feast, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
 
2014         
By Proxy, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Guest what?, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 
Guest what?, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
Feast, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA
Guest what?, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Feast, SITE Santa Fe, NM, USA
 
2013         
Connecting_Unfolding, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, Korea
Feast, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA
TEA/Super-Connect—2013 International Techno Art Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
City Shaped, Artefact Festival, STUK arts center, Leuven, Belgium
 
2012         
The Mending Project, European Capital of Culture, Guimarães, Portugal
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
 
2011         
All Things Equal, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, WA, USA
 
2010         
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Playing in the City II, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
 
2009         
The Enlightenments, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh International Festival, UK
 
2008         
All Inclusive, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Bubble Tea: Art of Taiwan and its Contemporary Mutations, The Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
China Power III, Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
 
2007         
1.5 Generation, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
 
2006         
Male Pregnancy Project, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Zhua-Zhou Project, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI, USA
Male Pregnancy Project, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
 
2005         
Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Trading Places, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Man of the Crowd, Contemporary Museum Baltimore, MD, USA
Spice Box Invitational, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Arnolfini Center of Arts, Bristol, UK
El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Contemporary Art from Taiwan at the Venice Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
 
2004         
We Are the World, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
Fiction Love, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
 
2003         
Away from Home, Wexner Center of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, USA
The Magic Makers, Des Moines Center of Art, Des Moines, IA, USA
Mind Space, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
The Gift, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, USA
The Gift, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, USA
 
2002         
Sitelines, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
The Gift, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ, USA
Male Pregnancy Project, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
 
2001         
Male Pregnancy Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Mixed Ingredients, American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts, Napa, CA, USA
The Gift, Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
The Bayberry Bush, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
 
2000         
Worthless (Invaluable), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Gift of Hope,  Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
 
1999         
Where Are You?, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, NY, USA
 
1998         
Plural Speech, White Box, New York, NY, USA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, USA
 
1997         
Money for Art, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA, USA
The World View, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, USA
Reflection, Art + Architecture Gallery, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
 

International Biennials

2019         
Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah, UAE
 
2017         
Lee Mingwei: Seven Stories, 14th edition of Biennale de Lyon, Bullukian Foundation, Lyon, France
Viva Arte Viva, The 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Italy
Middle of Now | Where, Honolulu Biennial 2017, Honolulu, HI, USA
 
2016         
Why Not Ask Again?, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The Future is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
 
2013         
Little Water, Dojima River Biennale 2013, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan
 
2012         
What You See is What I See, Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial, China
All Our Relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
 
2010         
Re-Thinking Trade, Liverpool Biennial 2010, UK
 
2009         
The Spectacle of the Everyday, Lyon Biennial 2009, France
So Close Yet So Far Away, Incheon Female Artist Biennial 2009, Incheon, Korea
 
2008         
Home, Taiwan Biennial 2008, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
 
2007         
Have You Eaten Year?, 2007 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
 
2006         
Fabric of Memory, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, UK
Artist-as-Residents Project, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
 
2004         
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA
 
2003         
Limbo Zone, Venice Biennale, Taiwan Pavilion, Italy
 
2000         
The Sky is the Limit, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
 
1999         
Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

 

Selected Bibliography

CATALOGUES FOR EXHIBITION (SOLO)
Lee, Mingwei, Stephanie Rosenthal, and Clare Molloy. 2020. Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts and Rituals. Berlin: Gropius Bau and Milan: Silvana Editoriale.
9 Histoires. 2018. Dijon: Les Presses du réel.
Lee, Mingwei, Mami Kataoka, and Yi-ting Lei. 2015. Lee Mingwei and His Relations. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Lee, Mingwei, and Alan Chong. 2015. Luminous Depths: A Contemporary Project on the Museum. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum, Peranakan Museum.
Lee, Mingwei, Mami Kataoka, and Hitomi Sasaki. 2014. Lee Mingwei and His Relations. Tokyo: Mori Art Museum.
Tsai, Eugenie, and Lee, Mingwei. 2011. Lee Mingwei: The Moving Garden. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum.
Lee, Mingwei. 2010. Lee Mingwei: Trilogy of Sounds. Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute: Mount Stuart Trust.
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.
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.
 

CATALOGUES FOR EXHIBITION (GROUP)

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.

Selected Public Collection

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




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