Lee Mingwei

LEE Mingwei has continually focused on themes of trust and self-awareness in projects that create a potential for active exchange. Intrigued by the parallels between art-making and prognostication—both of which draw on observation and intuition to reveal possibilities—Lee creates projects that test the limits of when and where such transformative experiences may take place, and has sensitively framed aspects of everyday life into experiences of potential discovery and renewal. 

LEE Mingwei(b. 1964 Taiwan) lives and works in Paris and New York. Lee received his MFA from Yale University in 1997. His work has been featured in the Biennales of Venice, Lyon, Liverpool, Taipei and Whitney and Triennials of Asian Contemporary Art, Echigo-Tsumari and Asia Pacific. Solo exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Oriental Art, Turin, Italy (2023); Tate Modern, London (2022); Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder, Germany (2021); Ateneum Art Museum, Finland (2021); Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2021); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2020); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (2019); MoCA Cleveland, Ohio (2019); National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2011), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998), to name a few. Lee has been a multiple repeat artist-in-residence at the Acadia Summer Art Program, Maine. He was awarded the 8th Museum Ostwall-Kunstpreis prize, Germany (2021), and the Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan (2016). Previously, he was awarded the Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors (1997). His work is included in the public collections of Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art, Deutsche Bank, Queensland Art Gallery, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, MFA Boston, and M+, Hong Kong, among others.