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Beau Bree Rhee is a visual artist & choreographer. Her work centers around body-space-ecologies, matière and our radical dependencies with the environment and cosmos. She works primarily with performance and drawing/painting, but additionally poems, scores and installation. As an artist who is trilingual/tricultural (Korean-American-French) and synesthetic, she is invested in multi-modal work & collaborations spanning cosmology, philosophy, environmental science, performance, visual art. They are based in NYC. 
She has shown her work at Ma’s House BIPOC Art Studio; KW Institute for Contemporary Art/Berlin Biennale; The Kitchen NY; Bard Graduate Center Gallery NY; Kaaitheater Bruxelles; Baryshnikov Arts Center NY; MoMA/PS1 NY; among others. Her work is in private collections and the MoMA Library & Research Collection. In 2021, she was awarded a Tishman Environment & Design Center grant to begin a long-term land art project Dream Garden in the Anthropocene. 
Rhee has been teaching at Parsons School of Design since 2017, and is a part-time assistant professor teaching Integrative Studio courses, Sustainable Systems and electives. She serves as the course facilitator for Sustainable Systems. Rhee is an amateur gardener and swimmer.  

Degrees Held

• M.F.A., Haute école d’art et de design de Genève (HEAD - University of Art & Design Geneva) Contemporary Artistic Practices 2012 

• B.A. Columbia University, Barnard College, cum laude & with distinction receiving a double major in Art History & Dance, 2007

Professional Affiliation

• LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) 

Recent Publications

• Body Poems by Beau Rhee, ECHOS, edited by Marion Tampon-Lajarriette, Edizioni Casagrande, 2020, Switzerland.

• Horizon-dots drawings by Beau Rhee with essay by Christophe Kihm, STRANGE ATTRACTORS, edited by Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Berlin Biennial / KUNST- WERKE BERLIN, 2018, Berlin.

• Perhaps It Is High Time For A Xeno-Architecture To Match, edited by Armen Avanessian, Lietje Bauwens, Wouter de Raeve, Alice Haddad, Markus Miessen, Sternberg Press, 2018, Berlin. (project cited) 

• Perfumes: The Guide 2018, edited by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, Perfüümista, 2018, Tallin. (projects reviewed / mentioned) 

• Harlem: Mart 125, edited by Nina Rappaport, Jenny Kim, Beau Rhee, Yale School of Architecture, 2018, New Haven. 

• Ephemerality and the Archive by Beau Rhee.The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict, edited by Markus Miessen, Yann Chateigné with Dagmar Füchtjohann, Johanna Hoth & Laurent Schmid., Sternberg Press, 2016, Berlin.  

• La Baignoire du Sens / The Bath of Sense, ed. Beau Rhee, édition d’artiste, 2012.  

• Mirage of History, ed. Yann Chateigné, éditions Haute école d’art du design Genève, 2011. 

Awards And Honors

​• 2021, Artist in Residence, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio

• 2021, Tishman Environment & Design Center Faculty Grant

• Art & Olfaction Awards Finalist, 2014 & 2017 

Portfolio

Studio Website: Atelier de Geste