Jaye Rhee
Notes, 2007-2008, Photograph of 8-channel Video Installation with Sound (2 min 12 sec)
Jaye Rhee revels in the space between the ironic and the poignant with work that simultaneously incorporates video, photography, and performance. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Rhee graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, MFA).
Her work has since been exhibited at various international venues, including Albright Knox Art Gallery, Norton Museum of Art, Queens Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Kobe Biennale 2007, The Seoul Museum of Modern Art, DOOSAN Art Center (Seoul), Gyeonggi Museum of Art (South Korea), Leeum Samsung Museum (Seoul), the Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura (Portugal) and La Triennale di Milano (Milan).
Rhee also participated in the Artists’ residencies of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Main 2009, Palais de Tokyo Workshop Program in Paris 2009, Changdong International Studio Program in Seoul 2008, Aljira Emerge Program at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in New Jersey 2008, Artist in Market Place Program in Bronx Museum in 2005 and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space Program 2012.
Among her awards are the Yonkang (DOOSAN) Art Award 2011, Franklin Furnace Fund 2010, SeMA Young Artist Grant from Seoul Museum of Art 2010, Arts Council Korea Grant for Cultural Exchange 2010 and 2009, and KoreaAmerica Foundation for the Arts Award 2008.
In 2010, Spector Press released her monograph Imageless. This retrospective of her oeuvre charts the evolution of her work over a decade and is accompanied by essays that deal with Rhee’s approach to her art by Carol Becker, Raul Zamudio, Sara Reisman and Edwin Ramoran. Prior to its publication, her work had already been featured in Carol Becker’s essay “Intimate, Immediate, Spontaneous, Obvious: Educating the Unknowing Mind” in Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art (University of California Press). It has also been the subject of reviews in numerous periodicals, including ARTnews, The New York Times, Palm Beach daily, Artslant, Artlyst, Art in Culture and Art Asia Pacific Magazine.
She lives and works in New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Shaping the Presence, Forming the Absence, Texas State University Galleries, San Marcos, TX
2015 Jaye Rhee, The Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2014 Overlapping and Unfolding, CAAA, Guimaraes, Portugal
2013 Gravity and Lightness, Doosan Gallery, Seoul
The Flesh and the Book, Doosan Gallery, New York
2010 And the Ship Sails on, Cais Gallery, Seoul
A Time Too Late, A Time Too Early, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY
Hardboard Sky, Corridor Gallery, NY
2009 Now You See It, Now You Don’t, KCCLA, Los Angeles
2007 Le Vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui, Galerie Gana Beaubourg, Paris, France
When All the Lovers in the World Are on the Phone at Once, Gallery Factory, Seoul
2004 Video Landscape: Real Fake, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Leeum (SAMSUNG Museum), Seoul, S.Korea
Asian Art Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta,GA
Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly Albright Knox Art Gallery), Buffalo, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Colorado University, Colorado
New York Public Library, New York
Artist Book Collection at Museum of Modern Art, New York
Thomas J.Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Flaxman Library at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul SongEun Foundation, Seoul
KOO HOUSE Museum of Art and Design Collection, Korea
I’Park Suwon City Museum, Korea
Ssamzie Collection, Korea
Doosan Art Center Collection
Various Private Collections