HYE RIM LEE

ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT
Hye Rim Lee is a Korean New Zealand intermedia artist whose work spans digital media, sculpture, and performance. Based in Seoul, New York, and Auckland, she is best known for TOKI, a digitally animated character through which she explores female identity, Asian womanhood, and global beauty ideals shaped by technology and consumer culture. Lee’s hyper-feminized, manga-inspired figures inhabit surreal digital landscapes, critically engaging with the male gaze and the gendered dynamics of digital media.
Lee has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, Venice, and New York, and participated in over 50 international art fairs including Art Basel Miami, Sydney Contemporary, and Art Paris. Her work is held in major collections such as the Seoul Museum of Art, Hara Museum (Tokyo), and The Wallace Arts Trust (New Zealand), and she has received awards from Creative New Zealand and the Wallace Art Awards.
Hye Rim Lee is a Korean New Zealand intermedia artist whose work spans digital media, sculpture, and performance. Based in Seoul, New York, and Auckland, she is best known for TOKI, a digitally animated character through which she explores female identity, Asian womanhood, and global beauty ideals shaped by technology and consumer culture. Lee’s hyper-feminized, manga-inspired figures inhabit surreal digital landscapes, critically engaging with the male gaze and the gendered dynamics of digital media.
Lee has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, Venice, and New York, and participated in over 50 international art fairs including Art Basel Miami, Sydney Contemporary, and Art Paris. Her work is held in major collections such as the Seoul Museum of Art, Hara Museum (Tokyo), and The Wallace Arts Trust (New Zealand), and she has received awards from Creative New Zealand and the Wallace Art Awards.
Lee has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, Venice, and New York, and participated in over 50 international art fairs including Art Basel Miami, Sydney Contemporary, and Art Paris. Her work is held in major collections such as the Seoul Museum of Art, Hara Museum (Tokyo), and The Wallace Arts Trust (New Zealand), and she has received awards from Creative New Zealand and the Wallace Art Awards.

Lee is best known for TOKI, a digitally animated character through which she explores evolving representations of female identity—particularly for Asian women—within the realms of technology, mythmaking, and Western beauty ideals. Her 3D animations and photographs feature hyper-feminized, manga-inspired figures in surreal, often symbolic digital landscapes that critique the male gaze and expose the gendered dynamics of digital media and global consumer culture.
Artist | Hye Rim Lee, 2023
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