BIOGRAPHY
MIKI LEE (b. in Seoul, Korea) received her Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (with Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship) and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (with Outstanding Painting Award, and Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key Honor Society memberships).
Her solo exhibitions include Miki Lee, LyonsWier/Ortt gallery, New York, NY; Miki Lee, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX; Miki Lee, Davidson galleries, Seattle, WA; and Miki Lee, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL.
Lee’s work has been included in group exhibitions such as “The DRAW Project”, Galerija Umjetnina & Multimedia Cultural Center, Split, Croatia; “Not Same Less Different”, Art Space Nanum, Icheon, Korea; “Three Rooms”, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; “Ruth: Selections from The Horwich Collection”, Russel Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL; “Love is in the Air”, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY; “There’s Nothing Like Painting”, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; “Modern Love”, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY; “Obsessive Reductive”, College of the Canyons Art Gallery, Santa Clarita, CA; “To be continued”, The Hogar collection, Brooklyn, NY; “Not Just Another Pretty Face”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; “Obsessive Reductive”, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY; “New York Contemporary artists”, Hangaram Museum/Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea; and “ABSTRACT”, Eleanor Cayre, Long Branch, NJ., and may more.
Lee and her works have been featured in Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, New Art Examiner, The Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly, and elsewhere.
Lee’s works may be found in the collections of Fidelity Corporate Art Collection (Boston, MA), Heller Financial (Chicago, IL), Winston & Strawn (Washington, DC), University of Illinois Medical Center (Chicago, IL), Ruth Horwich (Chicago, IL), and Sprint/Nextel.
She is the recipient of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Millay Colony Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship, Nippon Steel U.S.A., Presidential Award (Chicago, IL), and Annual Jones Invitational Award.
Lee lives and works in New York, NY.