Nikki S. Lee
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| Korean spelling | |
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| Hangeul | 이승희 |
| Hanja | 李承熙 |
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Revised Romanization |
I Seung-hui |
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McCune- Reischauer |
Yi Sǔnghui |
Nikki S. Lee (* 1970 in Kye-Chang , South Korea as Lee Seung-hee ) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York City .
biography
Nikki S. Lee was born in 1970 in the small town of Kye-Chang in Korea, where she also grew up. In 1993 she completed her BFA ( Bachelor of Fine Arts ) degree at the College of Arts at Chung-Ang University in Seoul and moved to the USA in 1994, where she continued her studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and graduated in 1996. She successfully completed her master's degree at New York University in 1999. In 2002, she received a scholarship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation .
Lee's most famous work, which they called, Projects' ( projects ) (1997-2001) titled, she began even during their studies. During the projects, Lee lived with various social groups for several weeks (for example The Punk Project 1997, The Hispanic Project 1998 and The Skateboarders Project 2000) and tried to integrate into them. A member of this group or a friend took snapshots of Nikki S. Lee within the group during this time. The aim is to observe the interactions within a group and to analyze the self-chosen identity.
In 2006 she published the conceptual "documentary" AKA Nikki S . Here Lee presents himself as two different personalities: a reserved acting academic and an extroverted celebrity. The premiere was on October 5, 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Essays on Lee's work have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and journals such as B. Artforum , Art in America, Art Journal and the New York Times . Two monographs of her work have been published to date : Nikki S. Lee: Parts. Text by RoseLee Goldberg (Hatje Cantz, 2005) and Nikki S. Lee: Projects. Essays by Russell Ferguson and Gilbert Vicario (Hatje Cantz, 2001). The philosopher Ariadne von Schirach wrote her master's thesis on Lee with Gunter Gebauer under the title Identity as a nomadic wandering between the possibilities of existence .
Projects
- Projects 1997-2001
- Parts 2002-2005
Book publications
- Nikki S. Lee - Projects. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1091-4 .
- Nikki S. Lee - Parts. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1672-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Nikki S. Lee on the website of the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago
- ↑ Nikki S. Lee's aka Nikki S. Lee, October 5-7, 2006 , moma.org (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikki S. Lee in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sikkema and Jenkins Gallery
- Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
- Now in Moving Pictures: The Multitudes of Nikki S. Lee by Carol Kino in The New York Times
- Cultural Karaoke by Ben Davis, Artnet Magazine
- Nikki S. Lee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Lee, Nikki S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lee, Seung-hee (real name); 이승희 (Korean, Hangeul); I, Seung-hui (Revised Romanization); Yi, Sǔnghui (McCune-Reischauer) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Korean-American multimedia artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kye-Chang , South Korea |