Rim Lee

Born in 1982 in Seoul, S. Korea, Haerim Lee graduated from the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the Painting and Drawing Department as well as MA Program at the Visual and Critical Studies, and was an instructor ...

Born in 1982 in Seoul, S. Korea, Haerim Lee graduated from the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the Painting and Drawing Department as well as MA Program at the Visual and Critical Studies, and was an instructor in Arts and Street Culture at SAIC. She has had solo shows at Parlour and Ramp (2021), Gallery Noone (2017), and Kasia Kay Art Project (2012) in Chicago, and Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (2012) in South Korea. She has participated in group shows including Autoethnography (2021) at Heaven gallery Chicago, Artists Run Chicago 2.0 (2020) at the Hyde Park Art Center, Young Eunji Keeps Memories: Consistently (2020) at Youngun Museum of Contemporary Art in S. Korea, Korean Eye: 2020 (2019), Out of Context (2019) at Chicago Artist Coalition (2019), The Art of Being Dangerous (2018) at the Hyde Park Art Center, The Body (2010) as a part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. She was awarded Love, Unity & Values (LUV) Institute’s Parade of Hearts Project grant from Luv Institute (2021), an Ox-bow fellowship (2021), Make Together (2020) from the Hyde Park Art Center, the Downtown Gary Public Art Competition from the Legacy Foundation (2017). She was a resident artist in ACRE (2022), Parlour and Ramp (2021), Ox-bow: Conversation in Practice (2021) fellowship resident artist, a Center Program Artist at the Hyde Park Art Center (2018), Hatch Projects Residency at the Chicago Artist Coalition (2017-18). Committed to multi-cultural, participatory education, she is currently working as an adjunct faculty at Richard J. Daley College (2022-) and Harold Washington College (2023-), City College of Chicago. She is also currently work as a lead teaching artist at Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) satellite programs as well as After school Matters (ASM) lead instructor to teach mural programs.