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1964 Born in Taiwan
Lives and works in New York.

Education

1995-97 Yale University, Graduate School of Fine Arts. MFA in Sculpture, concentrating in New Genre Public Art
1983-93 California College of Arts & Crafts. Bachelor of Fine Arts With Honors in Textile Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2000 The Living Room, Isabella Stewart Garden Museum, Boston, Massachusetts Empathic Economies, Davis Museum, Wellesley Colege, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Fort Lauderdale Museum for Contemporary Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1998 Lee Mingwei: 1994-1999, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA Way Stations (Contemporary Art Series), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1997 InteractExhchange, Lombrad/Freid Fine Arts, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

1999 Meaning to Write (special version of The Letter Writing Project), Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1998 " The Letter Writing Project", the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Plural Speech, White Box, New York 100 Days with Lily, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA 1997 Money for Art, Refusalon, San Francisco, California, USA The World View, Deutsche Bank, New York

Bibliography


1999 Namba, Sachiko, Review: " The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art ", Chungoku
Shinbun Newspaper, November 13, 1999
Namba, sachiko, Review: " The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art ", Art Monthly, October 1999
" The Best Museum Shows of 1998 ", Time Out New York, Kec. 31-Jan 6, 1999
Sozanski, Edward , " Letter-writing as art and a devotional ", Philadelphia Enquirer, November 6,1998
Rice, Robin," Between Heaven and Hell ", Philadelphia City Paper, 11/20/98
Larson, Kay, " Healing Power of Art ", New York Times, Sun Nov. 15, 1998
Two Artists: Gerhard Richter and Lee Mingwei , ninety (Art in the 90's),No 29, Fall 1998
Kino, Carol, " My Dinner With Ming-Wei ", Time Out New York, Issue #145,July 1998
Schwabsky, Barry, " Subject X-Notes on Performative Art Part 1 ", Art+Text, #60,1998
Myles, Eileen, " Ming-Wei Lee ", Art in America, November 1997
Chen, Chin-Chin, " Performance Art ", United Daily, Taiwan, 10/11/97
Lin, Lucas, " Money For Art ", World Journal, New York, 10/09/97
Lebre, Elayne, " Surprises ", Elle Magazine ( French edition ), Sept. 1997
Hsieh, Hui-Ching " Money for Art ", Ming pao Daily News, Hong Kong/NY, 8/8/97
Zimmer, Carol, " The Dining Project ", NBC Radio, New York, 8/4/97
Sprawl, Tessa ," The Dining Project ", CBC Radio, Canada, 8/1/97
Gardiner, Beth " Museum Preserves Dinner Dialogue", Associated Press 7/30/97
Sydell, Laura, " The Dining Project ", WNYC Radio, NPR, 7/28/97
Jones, Stefan, " The Dining Project ", SJS Radio, USA, 7/28/97
Wu, Vivian, " The Success of The Dining Project ", World Journal, NY, 6/23/97
Doran, Anne, Review, "Interact Exchange ", Time Out NY, 6/18/97
Levin, Kim " Interact Exchange ", Voice Choices, The Village Voice, 6/10/97
Chin, Wu Tsieh, " Interact Exchange Conceptual Performance Show ", Mong Pao Daily News, Hong Kong/NY, 6/9/97
" Cultural Heroes: Lee Ming-Wei ", Utne Reader, March 1997
" The Art of Nurturing ", Tricycle , Sept.1996

Projects

1999 Artist in Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Artist in Residence, Acadia Summer Art Program, Northeast Harbor,Maine

1998 " Conversation on Art-Out of Asia ", Whitney Museum, New York, moderated by Eugenie Tsai.

1997 " Facilitation for the Time Capsule ", for Day Without Art in New York, a collaboration with Visual AIDS, The Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time, and Art AIDS.