EDUCATION

2003    Bachelor of Fine Arts (Intermedia)
             Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

1985    Bachelor of Music (Voice)
             Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION

2008     Candyland, Crystal City, Gallerie Volker Diehl, Diehl Projects, Berlin Crystal City, Max Lang Gallery, New York

2007     BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, 24HR ART -The NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, AUS
              Obsession/ Love Forever, Starkwhite, Auckland

2006     Candyland, Starkwhite, Auckland

2005     Super Toy, Show, Wellington Powder Room, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
              BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, St Pauls Gallery outdoor screen,AK05, Auckland

2004     BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, Starkwhite, Auckland

2003     The Birth of TOKI: hundreds and thousands, Starkwhite, Auckland
               Bunny Boom, Rip Shit and Bust Gallery, Auckland

2002     Hello Toki ;), Moving Image Centre, Auckland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

2008     The Subject Now, Adam Gallery, Wellington, curator: Tina Barton
              Mirror States, Campbelltown Arts Center, Sydney, curator: KathyCleland
              Luxury of Love, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York, curator: Davide Centineo

2007     ISCP Open Studio Weekend, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, curator: Sara Reisman
              Business and Pleasure volume 2, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, curator: Rita Palma
              The New Media Festival 07, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami
              Shall We Smell? Space C, Coreana Meseum of Art,Seoul, Korea, curator: Myung Jee Bae
              Videoteque, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel Group Show Part 2, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
              Group Show Part 2, Kukje Gallery, Seoul

2006     The sea that has two names, video art from Korea, Casa Asia, Barcelona, curator: Cristina de la Fuente, Manu Park
              Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
              Power Ball 6, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
              OFF LOOP '06 Festival, New Zealand Scapes, Espai Liceu, Barcelona, curator: Mercedes Vicente
              OFF LOOP '06 Festival, Busan Biennale 2006, Casa Asia, Barcelona, curator: Manu Park
              The Original Neo Aesthetics of Animamix MoCA Shanghai, China, curator: Victoria Lu
              EXPOSED: black box & crystal ball, cross-cultural contemporary media art project in public sites, London, curator: Ji Yoon Lee
              Animamix, Hangzhou The 2nd China International Cartoon and Animation Festival, Hangzhou, China
              Open Studio Exhibition, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
              Fiction@Love / Forever Young Land, MoCA Shanghai, China, curator: Victoria Lu

2005     Paradiso D’amore: New Aesthetics of Animamic Age, The Hangzhou West Lake Expo Museum, Millennium Museum, Beijing,
              Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, curator: Victoria Lu
              MadeKnown, UTS gallery, Sydney
              The TSB Collection Show, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

2004     Break/Shift, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curator: Greg Burke, Simon Rees
              Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington,
              Mediaplex, NZ Film Archive, Wellington, curator: Emma Bugden,
              Water Works, RM 103, Auckland

2003     ICECA - Initiative for Cultural Exchange and Computer Arts, CHIANGMAI
              FIRST NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, CMU Art Museum, Chiang Mai,Thailand
              Intersculpt, Snowwhite Gallery, Auckland
              Extra Lives, a selection of works from Arcadia exhibition at Govett-Brewster
              Art Gallery, the Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
              Sublime Metaphor, Oxford Museum, England, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, USA, curator: Jan White
              Portraiture, te tuhi - the mark gallery, Auckland
              Upfront: the foyer art project, AK03, Generator Bates office and Price
              Waterhouse Coopers building foyer, Auckland, curator: Derrick Cherrie,Hanna Scott
              Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curator: Hanna Scott
              Cuckoo: Put Out More Flags! Moving Image Centre, Auckland
              TOKI/Cyborg, Bunny Boom, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland

2002     Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curator: Simon Rees
              Hello TOKI ;), Creative New Zealand office, Auckland
              Nightvision, Freyberg Place, High Street, Auckland
              Small Time, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
              Pelvic Trust 2, 37 Crummer Rd, Auckland
              The Bold and the Beautiful, Grantham Galleries, Auckland

2001     Elamlive@SCAPA, Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland
              Streets Ahead Streets Apart, NZ Film Archive, Auckland
              Goggle Box, Light Box, Auckland

PERFORMANCE

2008     Crystal City, a VIP event The Armory Show, Max Lang Gallery, New York

2007     Pink Glitter Pantyhose, Starkwhite, Auckland

2003     TOKILAND, Interdigitate 2003, St James Theatre, Auckland

FILM SCREENING

2005     TOKINARA, Viewfinder, NZ Film Archive Window Project, Auckland
              TOKINARA, Rear Window Project, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
              OKI/Cyborg, Video After Dark, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

2002     59 men, Bunny Cubed, I See, Channel 31, Melbourne, Australia
              59 men, Film Archive Window, Auckland
              59 men,ShortFuse31: A Night Of Short Film, The Classic, Auckland

FILMOGRAPHY

2002     Bunny Cubed, short film, DV, 4mins

2001     E BANG IN, short film, DV, 4:40
              59 men, animation, DV, 44sec
              Yang Sang Choo, short video, DV, 40sec

2000     Say Sexy, short video, DV, 41sec

COLLECTION

2007     Obsession:Love Forever, Coreana Art Museum, Seoul
              Crystal City series, Gallerie Volker Diehl Berlin
              Crystal City series, Eglantine de Ganay, Paris
              Crystal City series, Jean Pigozzi, New York
              Crystal City series, Candyland, Mira Ricanati, New York
              Candyland series,Obsession/Love Forever, Saatchi & Saatchi NZ, Auckland
              Candyland series, Gallerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
              Lash, Stefan Edlis, Gael Neeson, Chicago

2006     Lash, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2005     BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
              The Birth of TOKI series, Ernst&Young, Auckland

2004     The Birth of TOKI series, The University of Auckland, Auckland

2003     TOKI/Cyborg, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

AWARD, RESIDENCY AND COMMISSION

2007     International Studio and Curatorial Program artist in residence New York

2006     Screen Innovation Production Fund, A partnership between Creative New Zealand and the NZ Film Commission
              Asia NZ Foundation Fund
              Bananaland, Auckland City CBD Project public video commission
              Ssamzie Space Studio Programme artist in residence, Seoul, Korea

2005     Asia NZ Foundation Fund
              Arts Board: Creative and Professional Development, Creative New Zealand

2004     Screen Innovation Production Fund, A partnership between Creative New Zealand and the NZ Film Commission

2003     Arts Board: New Work, Creative New Zealand

2002     Elam Art Scholarship

ART FAIR

2008     Candyland, ARCO, Madrid
              Crystal City, The Armory Show, New York
              CandylandArt Dubai
              ART HK 08, Hong Kong

2007     Crystal City, Candyland, Art Miami Basel, Miami
              Crystal City, Candyland, Obsession: Love Forever, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York
              Powder Room, Candyland, Sh Contemporary 07, Shanghai
              Obsession/ Love Forever, Candyland, Art Basel, Basel
              Obsession/ Love Forever, KIAF, Seoul
              Candyland, Art Chicago, Chicago
              Lash, The Armory Show, New York
              Powder Room, ARCO, Spain

2006     Lash,hina International Gallery Exposition 2006, Beijing
              Lash, KIAF (Korea International Art Fair 2006), Seoul

CATALOGUE

2007     Hye Rim Lee, Kyung Jeon, Hideaki Kawashima, YP, Kukje Gallery Seoul, Korea

2006     Powder Room, editor: Gregory Burke, Publisher: Saatchi & Saatchi, The Gus Fisher Gallery
              The University of Auckland and TOKI Publications

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007     Emma Son, ‘Inside Out: Examined, Exposed, Expressed’, catalogue for Group Show
              Part Two: Hye Rim Lee, Kyung Jeon, Hideaki Kawashima, YP,
              Kukje Gallery Seoul Korea, pp 6-17

              Whang You Mee, ‘Artists expose personal identities’ The Korea Herald,
              February 15

              Park Soo Mee, ‘Four Artists’ Twisted Takes on Reality’, Joong Ang Daily,
              February 16


2006     Charlotte Huddleston, ‘From the powder room’ Powder Room catalogue, pp.3-7

              Ron Hanson, ‘Re-Channelling Desire – the Creation of Prince G’, White
              Fungus, issue 7 December, pp. 63-64

              Dr. Barry King, ‘Cybernetics and Sex’, Powder Room catalogue, pp.23-25

              Jaenine Parkinson, ‘Beautification and Regulation’, Powder Room catalogue, pp.19-21

              Lash, Super Toy, Powder Room’, aen journal, issue 2: creativity and ethnic
              communities, December, available on line at www.aen.org.nz

              John Hurrell, ‘Too much work – but still some treats’, Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award,
              Artbash, 7 Aug 06, available online at www.artbash.co.nz/display.asp?thread_number=793

              Dr. Barry King, ‘Orientalizing Sexism: Hye Rim Lee’s TOKI, Afterimage, vol 33,
              no.4, pp. 25-29


2005     Ron Hanson, ‘Fantasy and Confrontation’, White Fungus, issue 5,
              December, pp.22-27

              T.J McNamara, ‘Stacks of style and horsepower’, New Zealand Herald,
              December 14, p.B5

              Natasha Conland, 'Passing Through: A Base in New Zealand Art'.
              Broadsheet: Adelaide, vol.34 no.2, June-August 2005, pp.84-86

              Andrew Clifford, ‘TOKI the alien bunny grows into a woman’, New Zealand
              Herald, June 15, p.B6

              T.J McNamara, ‘Transformations are executed with elegance, yet make a powerful impact’,
              New Zealand Herald, June 1, p. B5

              William McAloon, ‘The Arrival Lounge’, New Zealand Listener, vol.197,
              no.3383, March 12-18, p.48

              Simon Rees, ‘Focus: Changing Address’, Visit, #7, Summer/Autumn,
              Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, p.11


2004     Rebecca Rice, ‘Exhibitions, Wellington’, Art New Zealand, No 112/Spring, p.52

              William McAloon, ‘The grand illusion’ New Zealand Listener, July 17~23,
              vol.194, no.3349, p.46

              Jaenine Parkinson, ‘Hye Rim Lee’, NZ Art Monthly, July ~ August, available
              online at http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz

              Emma Bugden, ‘Welcome In’, Telecom Prospect 2004 exhibition online catalogue,
              www.telecomprospect2004.org.nz

              T.J.McNamara, ‘The galleries: Art of saying one thing and meaning another’,
              New Zealand Herald, March 17, p.B5

              Gregory Burke, ‘Recent exhibitions in New Zealand’, Art & Australia, #41 no.3, p.478


2003     Hanna Scott, Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery,
              New Plymouth, p.30

              Natasa Kruscic, 'Hye Rim Lee and The Birth of TOKI', NZ Art Monthly, December,
              available online at http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/kruscic_001.html

              Sue Gardiner, ‘AK03, Artnotes NZ North Island’, Art Monthly Australia, #165, p.37

              Virginia Were, ‘The graduates’, Art News New Zealand, #23, p.54

              Rhoda Fowler, ‘Hye Rim Lee’ Portraiture, te tuhi – the mark, p.27

              Simon Rees, ‘Point Break’ Visit, #5, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, p.5