Lee Mingwei has continually focused on themes of trust and self-awareness in projects that create a potential for active exchange. Intrigued by parallels between art-making and prognostication, both of which draw on observation and intuition to reveal possibilities. Lee Mingwei creates projects that test the limits of when and where such transformative experiences may take place, and has sensitively framed aspects of everyday life into experiences of potential discovery and renewal. Lee Mingwei was born in Taiwan, currently lives and works in New York City and Berkeley, California.

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The Tourist, Sherman Gallery. Sydney AUSTRALIA
Guernica in Sand, Albion Gallery, London, ENGLAND
Pantheon Project, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York

Through Masters’ Eyes, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany

Guggenheim Museum, New York.

All Inclusive, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Art of Taiwan and its Contemporary Mutations, The Moravian Gallery, Brno,Czech Republic
Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
China Power III, Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg

1.5 Generation, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Through Masters’ Eyes, Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

Memory of Fabric, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial, England
Artist-as-Resident Project, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Niigata, Japan
Male Pregnancy Project, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Zhua-Zhou Project, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Male Pregnancy Project, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

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Whitney Seers Project - Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
We Are the World, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Fiction.Love, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Limbo Zone, Venice Biennale, Taiwan Pavilion, Italy
Away from Home - Wexner Center of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Inaugural Exhibition - Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio
The Magic Makers - Des Moines Center of Art, Iowa
Mind Space - Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul. Korea
The Gift - Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
The Gift- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois

Siteline, Mosquito Cinema - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
The Gift - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
Male Pregnancy Project - Kaoshung Museum of Fine Art, Kaoshung, Taiwan

Male Pregnancy Project - Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan
Mixed Ingredients - American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts, Napa, CA
The Gift - Palazzo delle Papesse Arte Contemporane, Siena, Italy
The Bayberry Bush - The Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, Nwe York

Shrine Project - Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Worthless - Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Gift of Hope - Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Janpan

Asia Pacific Triennial - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Where Are You? - Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, New York

Plural Speech - White Box, New York
Art on Paper - Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina

Money For Art - Refusalon, San Francisco, California
The World View - Deutsche Bank, New York
Reflection - Yale Art & Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artist. Harvard University, Massachusetts
Visiting Artist for 2003, Cranbrook Art Institue, Michigan
Artist in Residence Award 2003. Wexner Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Visiting Artist, Long Island School of Design, Long Island, New York

Artist in Residence, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas

Artist in Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for Contemporary Art, Sausalito, California
Artist in Residence, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine

Artist in Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA
Artist in Residence, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, ME

Joan Mitchell Grant Award
Graduate of Distinction, California College of Arts
"Conversation on Art-Out of Asia," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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

• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
• National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• Deutsche Bank, New York
• Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
• YAGEO Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
• Artist Residency, Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Hsingchu, Taiwan