Jaye Rhee’s work has been exhibited at various international venues, including Albright Knox Art Gallery (NY), High Museum of Art (GA), Norton Museum of Art (FL), Queens Museum (NY), Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul), DOOSAN Art Center (Seoul), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (South Korea), Leeum Samsung Museum (Seoul), the Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura (Portugal) and La Triennale di Milano 2016, Milan, Italy. She has received many grants and awards, as well as residencies include the Defina Foundation in London, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Main and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Rhee’s work has been the subject of numerous reviews, including articles in ARTnews, Artforum, Afterimage, The New York Times, Vogue Korea and Italia, Palm Beach daily, Artslant, Artlyst, Art in Culture and Art Asia Pacific Magazine. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Rhee graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, MFA) and lives and works in New York.

My work examine the poignancy that arises from searching for a location that exists only in collective longing, personal memory from long ago, and the misconceptions and illusions of culturally learned and tamed and/or domesticated desires projected onto images, as well as the fallacy of the relationship between signifier and signified, to provoke a conventional relationship between the two. Through my works, I investigate the links between fantasy, reality, memory, imagination, and the ways those links play out across cultural space and time. Any search for truth is an endless and unattainable dream that flickers like an old film. Be that as it may, I hope that my works’ “honest artifice” may ultimately lead viewers to reflect on their own mechanisms of understanding and determining what is true.