CV highlights

Education

2002 M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT
1993 B.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, California. (forthcoming)

2024
Fabrication, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California.

2022
Work in Process, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Catalogue.

2019
Pattern : Code, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California.

2015
Your Piece, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California.

Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances

2024
Day Jobs, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Sonmat, Augsburg University Art Galleries, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World, California Museum of Photography and Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, California. (forthcoming)
Self Adjacent, Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. (forthcoming)
UCLA Arts Conditional Studio Pacific Standard Time 2024 Exhibition, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California. (forthcoming)
Small Expressions, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

2023
Weaving Data, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
Intertwined: Labor and Technology in Contemporary Textile Art, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida.
Self Adjacent, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.

2022
Core Memory, Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
no beginning no end, LADIES’ ROOM, Los Angeles, California.
Counting Threads, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
Garden, LADIES’ ROOM, Los Angeles, California.

2021
The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now, Chapter 3: Social Fabric, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California.
Circle, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea.
Weaving Justice, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, New York. 

2020
We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California.
Digital Power: Activism, Advocacy and the Influence of Women Online, ACM SIGGRAPH.
Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

2019
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington.
Femmebit Art Festival, Los Angeles, California.
e4C, 4Culture, Seattle, Washington.
In the Mix, Visual Arts Center, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.

2018
Optical: Life Through the Lens, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California.
Interplay: Craft, Art, and Design, South Bay Contemporary, Los Angeles, California.

2017
Office Hours, The Main Museum, Los Angeles, California.
Hurry Up and Wait, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Intertitle, Maiden LA, Los Angeles, California.

2014
Biometric, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, BC, Canada.

2013
From Here to There: Parallel Trajectories, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, New Jersey.

2012
Random Acts of Time, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California.

2010
I Love Your Profile, Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, Spain.
I Love Your Profile, La Kursala Gallery, Cadiz, Spain.

2009
FOFU phot’art, International Festival of Photography, Fucecchio, Italy.
International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco.

2008
01SJ Biennial: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, California.
Command Z: New Work in Digital Photography, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California.

2007
Command Z: New Work in Digital Photography, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California.

2006
International Short Film Festival Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Watch It: When Art and TV Meet, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, California.

2005
A 24 Frame Project: One Year, Sundance Channel, Aired 2005–2008.
Play, Collaboration with Adele Myers and Dancers, Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, New York.
MULTI–, Arts+Literature Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut.

2004
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Los Angeles, California.
Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles, California.
Film Fest New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.

2003
Light Plays Tricks 6 Short Film Festival, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

2002
Configuring Identity: Fragmented Self and Other, Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Awards, Grants, Honors

2019 Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2017 Quick Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2011, 2010 Webby Awards judge
2007 Webby Awards nominee, Film/Video
2005 Artist Fellowship Award, Film/Video, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
2004 Audience Award: Second Place, Short Film – Experimental, Film Fest New Haven
2004 Jury Award: Honorable Mention, Short Film – Experimental, Film Fest New Haven
1999 Artistic Career Development Grant, Asian American Renaissance, Jerome Foundation

Residencies

2020 Artist Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2019 Artist in Residence, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA.

Selected Publications

Cheng, Scarlet. “USC Pacific Asia in Pasadena reopens with a new goal: Decolonize our own museum,” Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2021.
Rajagopal, Avinash, “Ahree Lee Highlights How Women Pioneered Weaving and Early Computing.” Metropolis Magazine, October 1, 2020.
Han, Hyonjeong Kim, editor. Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2020.
Chen, Marissa. “The Last Picture Will Break Your Heart,” Photography+, #7: Anniversary, June, 2020.
Brown, Evan Nicole. “Weaving, coding, and the secret history of ‘women’s work.’” Fast Company, November 6, 2019.
Reizman, Renée. “A Tribute to Women’s Work, From Weaving to Computer Programming.”Hyperallergic, October 23, 2019.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Meet an Artist Monday: Ahree Lee.” LA Weekly, September 23, 2019.
McArthur, Meher. “We Are More Similar Than We Realize: Interconnecting Identities in the Work of Ahree Lee.” KCET.org, April 4, 2017.
 In Search of Great Culture. KBS documentary, August 8, 2015.
Rettberg, Jill Walker. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How we Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Losh, Elizabeth. “Beyond Biometrics: Feminist Media Theory Looks at Selfiecity.” www.academia.edu, 2013.
Belsky, Scott. Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality. New York: Portfolio, Penguin Group, 2010.
European Photography, Number 88, Volume 31, Issue 2, Fall/Winter, 2010.
Brown, Damon. “Time-Lapse Aging Videos Buzz Across the Internet.” CNN.com, December 16, 2010.
Superlight, Exhibition publication on the occasion of the 2008 01SJ Biennial: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and the exhibition Superlight. San Jose: ZERO1, 2009.
Stross, Randall. Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. New York: Free Press, 2008.
Sarno, David. “A Fast-Forward Trip Through Time’s Passage.” Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2007.
Schneider, Keith. “Look at Me, World! Self-Portraits Morph Into Internet Movies.” New York Times, March 18, 2007.
Kirsner, Scott. “All the World’s a Stage (That Includes the Internet).” New York Times, February 15, 2007.
“The Year in Online Video.” Wired News, December 26, 2006.
Inside Edition, September 20, 2006.
Sennhauser, Peter. “Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Lee.” Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland), September 4, 2006.
The Today Show, August 18, 2006.
ABC World News Webcast, August 17, 2006.
BBC News, August 17, 2006.

Selected Talks, Workshops, and Media

X-TRA, Artists and Rights podcast, “Episode 7: Becoming Visible, Being a Thorn, and Seeking Justice“ and “Episode 8: Committing to Showing Up and Shifting Frameworks.” 2020
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Art Encounters: Artists in Their Own Words, Long Beach, California. 2020.
Artist Talk, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, 2020
Keynote speaker, Women in Cleantech, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, 2019
Ahree Lee in Conversation with Kayleigh Perkov, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California, 2019
Digital Weaving, Physical Computing, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California
Women, Technology, and Power: A Workshop to Design the Future, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, California, 2019
Artist Talk, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California, 2015

Public Collections

Museum of the Moving Image, Long Island City, New York
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut