Lee Mingwei

Born in Taiwan in 1964, Lee Mingwei, currently residing in Paris, Taipei, and New York, creates participatory installations that enable strangers to engage with concepts of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness. Additionally, Lee conducts one-on-one events in which he and visitors explore these themes through daily activities like eating, sleeping, writing, and conversing. His projects often present open-ended scenarios for everyday interactions, adapting and transforming with participant involvement throughout an exhibition’s duration. 

Lee received his MFA from Yale University in 1997 and has since showcased his solo exhibitions internationally at venues including the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Gropius Bau, Sydney Modern, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Mori Art Museum, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Art Museum Ateneum, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has also been featured in Biennials in Venice, Lyon, Sharjah, Liverpool, Taipei, Sydney, Echigo-Tsumari, Whitney, and the Asia Pacific Triennials. 

His mid-career survey exhibition, “Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation,” was presented at Mori Art Museum in 2014, traveled to Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Auckland Art Gallery. Lee’s European survey, “Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts, and Rituals,” was on view at Gropius Bau in 2020 followed by Museum Villa Stuck. His first US retrospective, “Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care”, opens at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young in 2024. 

Programs:

• Marcus Exhibition The Art and Architecture of Maybe (2026)