Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Intermedia)
Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
1985
Bachelor of Music (Voice)
Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibition
2005
Super Toy, Show, Wellington
Powder Room, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, St Pauls Gallery outdoor screen,AK05, Auckland
2004
BOOM BOOM: super heroine super beauty, Starkwhite, Auckland
2003
The Birth of TOKI: hundreds and thousands, Starkwhite, Auckland
Bunny Boom, Rip Shit and Bust Gallery, Auckland
2002
Hello Toki ;), Moving Image Centre, Auckland
Selected group exhibition
2006
OFF LOOP '06 Festival, New Zealand Scapes, Espai Liceu, Barcelona,
curator: Mercedes Vicente
OFF LOOP '06 Festival, Busan Biennale 2006, Casa Asia, Barcelona, curator: Manu Park
The Original Neo Aesthetics of Animamix MoCA Shanghai, China, curator: Victoria Lu
EXPOSED: black box & crystal ball, cross-cultural contemporary media art project in
public sites, London, curator: Ji Yoon Lee
Animamix, Hangzhou The 2nd China International Cartoon and Animation
Festival, Hangzhou, China
Open Studio Exhibition, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
Fiction@Love / Forever Young Land, MoCA Shanghai, China, curator: Victoria Lu
2005
Paradiso D'amore: New Aesthetics of Animamic Age, The Hangzhou West
Lake Expo Museum, Millennium Museum, Beijing, Guangdong Museum of
Art, Guangzhou, China, curator: Victoria Lu
MadeKnown, UTS gallery, Sydney
The TSB Collection Show, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2004
Break/Shift, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curator: Greg Burke,
Simon Rees
Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington,
Mediaplex, NZ Film Archive, Wellington, curator: Emma Bugden,
Water Works, RM 103, Auckland
2003
ICECA - Initiative for Cultural Exchange and Computer Arts, CHIANGMAI
FIRST NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL, CMU Art Museum, Chiang Mai,
Thailand
Intersculpt, Snowwhite Gallery, Auckland
Extra Lives, a selection of works from Arcadia exhibition at Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, the Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
Sublime Metaphor, Oxford Museum, England, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas
City, USA, curator: Jan White
Portraiture, te tuhi - the mark gallery, Auckland
Upfront: the foyer art project, AK03, Generator Bates office and Price
Waterhouse Coopers building foyer, Auckland, curator: Derrick Cherrie,
Hanna Scott
Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth, curator: Hanna Scott
Cuckoo: Put Out More Flags! Moving Image Centre, Auckland
TOKI/Cyborg, Bunny Boom, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
2002
Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curator: Simon Rees
Hello TOKI ;), Creative New Zealand office, Auckland
Nightvision, Freyberg Place, High Street, Auckland
Small Time, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
Pelvic Trust 2, 37 Crummer Rd, Auckland
The Bold and the Beautiful, Grantham Galleries, Auckland
2001
Elamlive@SCAPA, Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland
Streets Ahead Streets Apart, NZ Film Archive, Auckland
Goggle Box, Light Box, Auckland
Performance
2003
TOKILAND, Interdigitate 2003, St James Theatre, Auckland
Art Fair
2006
Lash, China International Gallery Exposition 2006, Beijing
Lash, KIAF (Korea International Art Fair 2006), Seoul
Film Screening
2005
TOKINARA, Viewfinder, NZ Film Archive Window Project, Auckland
TOKINARA, Rear Window Project, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
TOKI/Cyborg, Video After Dark, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
2002
59 men, Bunny Cubed, I See, Channel 31, Melbourne, Australia
59 men, Film Archive Window, Auckland
59 men, ShortFuse31: A Night Of Short Film, The Classic, Auckland
Filmography
2002
Bunny Cubed, short film, DV, 4mins
2001
E BANG IN, short film, DV, 4:40
59 men, animation, DV, 44sec
Yang Sang Choo, short video, DV, 40sec
2000
Say Sexy, short video, DV, 41sec
Award, Residency and commission
2006
Bananaland, Auckland City CBD Project public video commission, Auckland
Ssamzie Space Studio Programme artist in residence, Seoul, Korea
2005
Asia New Zealad Foundation Fund
Arts Board: Creative and Professional Development, Creative New Zealand
2004
Screen Innovation Production Fund, Creative New Zealand and NZ Film
Commission
2003
Arts Board: New Work, Creative New Zealand
2002
Elam Art Scholarship
Selected Bibliographies
2006
Dr. Barry King, 'Orientalizing Sexism: Hye Rim Lee's TOKI, Afterimage, vol 33,
no.4, pp. 25-29
2005
Ron Hanson, 'Fantasy and Confrontation', White Fungus, issue 5,
December, pp.22-27
T.J McNamara, 'Stacks of style and horsepower', New Zealand Herald,
December 14, p.B5
Natasha Conland, 'Passing Through: A Base in New Zealand Art'.
Broadsheet: Adelaide, vol.34 no.2, June-August 2005, pp.84-86
Andrew Clifford, 'TOKI the alien bunny grows into a woman', New Zealand
Herald, June 15, p.B6
T.J McNamara, 'Transformations are executed with elegance, yet make a
powerful impact', New Zealand Herald, June 1, p. B5
William McAloon, 'The Arrival Lounge', New Zealand Listener, vol.197, no.
3383, March 12-18, p.48
Simon Rees, 'Focus: Changing Address', Visit, #7, Summer/Autumn,
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, p.11
2004
Rebecca Rice, 'Exhibitions, Wellington', Art New Zealand, No 112/Spring, p.52
William McAloon, 'The grand illusion' New Zealand Listener, July 17~23, vol.194, no.3349, p.46
Jaenine Parkinson, 'Hye Rim Lee', NZ Art Monthly, July ~ August, available
online at http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz
Emma Bugden, 'Welcome In', Telecom Prospect 2004 exhibition online
catalogue, www.telecomprospect2004.org.nz
T.J.McNamara, 'The galleries: Art of saying one thing and meaning another',
New Zealand Herald, March 17, p.B5
Gregory Burke, 'Recent exhibitions in New Zealand', Art & Australia, #41
no.3, p.478
2003
Hanna Scott, Arcadia: the other life of video games, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, New Plymouth, p.30
Natasa Kruscic, 'Hye Rim Lee and The Birth of TOKI', NZ Art Monthly,
December, available online at
http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/kruscic_001.html
Sue Gardiner, 'AK03, Artnotes NZ North Island', Art Monthly Australia, #165, p.37
Virginia Were, 'The graduates', Art News New Zealand, #23, p.54
Rhoda Fowler, 'Hye Rim Lee' Portraiture, te tuhi - the mark, p.27
Simon Rees, 'Point Break' Visit, #5, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth, p.5
