迈克·李 Mike Lee

Photo: Courtesy of Sifang Art Museum

1983年生于美国加利福尼亚州普拉森,2006年毕业于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶奥蒂斯艺术与设计学院,目前生活、工作在纽约布鲁克林。

他的画作充满图形元素,突出其个人叙事。艺术家捕捉与人类内在情感相联的瞬间与情境。其作品中独特的灰度与断裂错位形式的结合使用,使他能专注于怀旧与纯真,反映我们的记忆相对于现在不断变化的运作方式。受作为美国第二代移民的成长经历的影响,Mike Lee的近作进一步结合语境探索自我身份。在此过程中,他的作品作为一种视觉语言,诉诸于亲密关系的概念。


Born in Placentia, CA in 1983, currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA after receiving his BFA in 2006 from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 

His paintings are filled with graphic elements, highlighting his personal narrative. Lee captures a moment or situation that is linked to intrinsic human emotions. The exclusive use of grayscale combined with fractured forms in Lee’s works allows him to focus on the nostalgic quality and innocence, reflecting the way our memory works that is in constant flux in relative to the present. More recent works by the artist have been further contextualized to explore his own identity as a self, influenced by his upbringing as a second-generation immigrant in the United States. In the process, his works serve as a visual language that appeals to the concept of intimacy.



教育 Education:

2006   毕业于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶奥蒂斯艺术与设计学院



个展 Solo Exhibitions:

2024   Fishbowl,  Sifang Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2023   Homecoming,  Jason Haam, Seoul, Korea

2022   No Man's Land,  Half Gallery, New York, NY USA

2021   Under the Lemon Tree,  ATM Gallery, New York, NY USA 

2020   Sunny Days, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA USA

2018   Quality Time,  Art Central with Over the Influence, Hong Kong

2017   Happier Together,  Amala Gallery, Tokyo, Japan



群展 Group Exhibitions:

2024   Games People Play, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY USA

2023   Karma, Frieze Cork  Street No. 9, London, UK

2023   Frieze Seoul with Jason Haam, Seoul, Korea

2023   A Crack in Overton's Window, The Ranch, Hamptons,  NY USA

2023   State of Play,  Here and There Collective, New York, NY USA

2022   Frieze Seoul with Jason Haam, Seoul, Korea 

2022   Person(a), Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY USA

2022   Harmonious Arrangements, Half Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA USA

2022   This Is Not What It Seems, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery,  Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

2021   Vanitas, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY USA

2021   Stiltsville, Half Gallery, Miami, FL USA     

2021   Frieze New York with Half Gallery, New York, USA

2021   Resting Point of Accommodation, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium

2021   Friend Zone, Half Gallery, New York, NY USA

2020   Imagining Reality,  Future Gallery,  Berlin, Germany

2020   Home Alone, ATM Gallery, New York, NY USA

2020   ART021 Shanghai with Over the Influence,  Shanghai, China

2020   KIAF Art Seoul with Over the Influence, Seoul, Korea

2020   Demo, Amala Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019   Taipei Dangdai with Over the Influence, Taipei City, Taiwan 

2019   Untitled Art Fair with Over the Influence, Miami, FL, USA

2019   Art Central with Over the Influence, Hong Kong

2019   Art Fair Tokyo with Over the Influence, Tokyo, Japan

2016   Silent Wonderment, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2015   GR Biennale 4, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angles, CA, USA

2015   Art Contempo, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, USA



驻地项目 Residencies:

2024   Ceramica Suro x Exhibition A, Guadalajara, Mexico



出版 Publications:

2023   Juxtapoz Magazine Winter 2023 Issue

2018   Juxtapoz Magazine Winter 2018 Issue

2018   Happier Together, Amala Gallery

迈克·李:鱼缸

Mike Lee: Fishbowl

2024.1.26—2024.2.29
四方当代美术馆 Sifang Art Museum 上海