Biography
Hye Rim Lee’s work questions new technology’s role in image making and representation. Her work is consistent with recent international developments in contemporary art, re-looking at aspects of popular culture in relation to notions of femininity and looking at the way fictional animated identities are propagated within contemporary culture. Her work has developed and grown with critical exploration and conceptually evolving through representation of TOKI character in her ongoing TOKI/Cyborg Project since 2002. Her work is ambitious, expansive and conceptually and technically honed: each new project surpassing the previous genesis of TOKI. Lee has positioned her work at the interface between West and Asia by exploring the areas of computer gaming, cyber culture, contemporary myth and animamix. She has demonstrated the progressive role an art form can play in the engagement with high technology and popular culture. Lee has shown her work in the major international exhibitions: Incheon Women Artists Biennale, 2009. Glasstress, 53rd Venice Biennale 2009, Kukje Gallery, Max Lang Gallery NY, MoCA Shanghai, Millennium Museum, Beijing, Art Basel, and The Armory Show NY.
