Jaye RHEE

My work explores the evasive nature of authentic desire. By focusing on the tension between “real” desire and “fake” objects of desire, as embodied by images—in the broadest sense of the word—my work presents “real fakes” and “imageless images.”
My work is thus concerned with making real fakes by forthrightly showing artifice without the concealment of ambiguity. This refusal to deny the actual substance of the materials with which I make art reveals the authenticity of these faked, imaginary worlds so that the product, as an artwork, is paradoxically a fake that, notwithstanding its artifice, is authentic and, thus genuine.
My goal is to create a new visual space in which artifice evaporates through the very naked presentation of images as naked materials. This “honest artifice” would ultimately lead one into an experience of reflection about one’s own nostalgia.

Jaye RHEE
Born in 1973, Korea

EDUCATION
1998 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA
1990 M.F.A., School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
B.F.A,, B.A., School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2015 Jaye Rhee, Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University Museum, NY, USA
2014 Overlapping and Unfolding, CAAA, Guimaraes, Portugal
2013 Gravity and Lightness, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Flesh and the Book, Doosan Gallery, New York, USA
2010 And the Ship Sails on, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea
A Time Too Late, A Time Too Early, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, USA
Hardboard Sky, Corridor Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Now You See It, Now You Don’t, KCCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui, Galerie Gana Beaubourg, Paris, France
When All the Lovers in the World Are on the Phone at Once, Gallery Factory, Seoul

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2012 Crying, Seasaw, Tear, Between: New Video, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Screening: Roppongi Art Night, Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Keeping it Real, CU Art Museum, Colorado, USA
2011 Videosphere : A New Generation, Albright Knox, NY, USA
2010 I Know What You Did Last Summer, St. Cecilia, NY, USA
Shallow Grave, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Facts & Faces, Media, Media, New York, Queens Museum, New York, USA
Queens International 4, Queens Museum, NY, USA
2008 Course, Sepia Gallery / Alkazi Collection, NY, USA
2007 Kobe Biennale, Kobe, Japan