Exhibition
Mire Lee: Black Sun
06/29/23-09/17/23
Conversations · Exhibition-Related · Exhibition-Related
Mire Lee in Conversation
Cover Image:
Photo: Christian Werner; Photo: Christine Rivera
In conjunction with the opening of Mire Lee’s exhibition “Black Sun”—the artist’s first museum exhibition in the United States—Lee will join exhibition co-curator Gary Carrion-Murayari for a discussion of her artistic practice and new site-specific installation. Hear Lee discuss her many references, from psychoanalysis to horror, pornography, and cybernetics, and how she uses materials to evoke both bodies and machines.
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About the Speakers
Gary Carrion-Murayari (he/him) is the Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum. Since he joined the Museum in 2010, Carrion-Murayari has curated monographic exhibitions of many artists including John Akomfrah, Thomas Bayrle, Phyllida Barlow, Ellen Gallagher, Hans Haacke, Haroon Mirza, Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, and Nari Ward.
Mire Lee (she/her) lives and works in Amsterdam. Lee has a BFA in Sculpture and an MFA in Media Art from the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, and was a 2018 resident at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Lee has had solo exhibitions at ZollamtMMK, Frankfurt (2022); Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (2022); Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2022); Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2020); Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands (2019); and Insa Art Space, Seoul (2014); and a two-person show with H.R. Giger at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2021). Her work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022); Busan Biennial (2022); 15th Lyon Biennial (2019); and the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project (2018).
Sponsors
Support for Education and Public Engagement programs is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
We gratefully acknowledge the Bowery Council of the New Museum for its support of Education and Public Engagement Programs.
Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Support for “Mire Lee: Black Sun” can be viewed here.
