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Jae Rhim Lee Infinity Burial Project

Jae Rhim Lee

Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist and designer whose living units, furniture, wearables, and recycling systems propose unorthodox relationships between the mind/body/self and the built and natural environment. She has exhibited internationally and has given numerous lectures, talks, and demonstrations, including at MIT, the TEDGlobal Conference, Harvard Medical School and Kampnagel Hamburg. Lee is a recipient of a 2010 Grant from the Institut fur Raumexperimente/Universitaet der Kunste Berlin and a 2011 MAK-Schindler Scholarship. Lee is a 2011 TED Global Fellow and a Research Affiliate in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.  


Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2011

    Biennale

    Lee’s Infinity Burial Project is included in the Incheon International Women’s Biennale in Incheon, South Korea, curated by Jane Farver

  • 2011

    Scholarship and Residency

    Lee receives 2011 MAK-Schindler Scholarship and Artist Residency in Los Angeles, CA

  • 2011

    Residency

    Lee is an artist-in-residence at the Boston Center for the Arts

  • 2011

    Fellowship

    Lee is a 2011 TED Global Fellow

  • 2010

    IdeaFestival

    Lee presents with Creative Capital at IdeaFestival in Louisville, KY

  • 2010

    Grant

    Jae Rhim Lee receives grant to attend Institut fur Raumexperimente at Universitat der Kunste Berlin, Germany, led by Olafur Eliasson and connected to Studio Eliasson

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