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Lee Seung-hee (Korean: 이승희; born 1970), known professionally as Nikki S. Lee, is a South Korean visual artist with a focus on performance, photography, and film. Lee often explores themes of identity through her work — specifically as it relates to others, rather than individual identity.
Nikki S. Lee is a contemporary Korean artist best known for her identity shifting photographs and videos of American subcultures. Often shot with disposable cameras by passersby, Lee's most recognizable photographs including her Hispanic Project, are self-portraits reminiscent of those by Cindy Sherman.
The artist Nikki S. Lee seemed to be everywhere—and everyone—in the late ’90s and early 2000s. She is best known for her “Projects” series (1997–2001), in which she attempted to assimilate...
hip hop. Nikki S. Lee. Nikki S. Lee is best known for her “Projects” series in which she mimicked the styles and mannerisms of social and subcultural groups.
Nikki S. Lee. Born in 1970. Born Lee Seung-Hee in Korea, Lee dreamed of a career as a movie actress, before deciding filmmaking was a more practical and attainable artistic vocation. Her parents discouraged her from entering cinema school, but approved of her interest in photography.
Nikki S. Lee presents Projects, Parts, and Layers, a retrospective exhibition of the past ten years of her identity exploration, social examination, and experiential expression at One and J...
Timeline. 1970. Born in Korea. 1993. BFA Chung-Ang, College of Arts, University of Korea. 1996. AAS Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. 1999. MA Photography, New York University. 2002. The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Lives and works in New York. Exhibitions. 2008.
