Profile
Beau Bree Rhee (she/they) is a visual artist and choreographer. Her work centers around body-space-ecologies and our radical dependencies with the environment and cosmos. She works primarily with dance, drawing/painting and with poems, scores, and installation. Rhee is trilingual and tricultural (Korean-American-French). They are invested in collaborative and multi-modal work connecting disciplines such as cosmology, ecology, myth, sound. Rhee is engaged in ‘liberation work’ – her practice opens new, life-affirming spaces beyond the extractive and oppressive systems that created the reality of our environment today.
Rhee has shown her work at institutions including The Kitchen; Madison Square Park Conservancy; Ma’s House BIPOC Art Studio; KW Institute for Contemporary Art; Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Kaaitheater Bruxelles; Baryshnikov Arts Center; MoMA/PS1. Over the last ten years, she has created five evening-length performances and had four solo exhibitions. Rhee is an Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design, and has guest lectured at Columbia University, Yale University, The Whitney Museum, Guild Hall East Hampton & others. In 2024, she was a laureate artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. In 2021, she was awarded a Tishman Environment and Design Center grant for a long-term land art project. She is based in NYC and is an amateur gardener and swimmer.
She holds an MFA in Contemporary Artistic Practices from Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) Genève / University of Art and Design Geneva, Switzerland (2012) and a BA in Art History and Dance cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University (2008). Rhee began teaching at Parsons School of Design in Fall 2017, and has taught Integrative Studio 1 & 2, Sustainable Systems and electives. She serves as the Course Facilitator for Sustainable Systems.
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.
Performances and Appearances
Solo Exhibitions & Significant Performances
2024. Je Participe à l’Immortalité des Nuages
Cité Internationale des Arts. Paris, France.
● Residency Solo Exhibition. Laureate Artist-in-Residence (6-month residency in the 2-12 Programme)
2022. Shadow of the Sea
The Kitchen. New York, NY.
● An evening-length performance, commissioned by The Kitchen & Madison Square Park Conservancy, curated by Alison Burstein & Legacy Russell
2021. Les Parages
Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio.
Shinnecock Tribal Nation, Southampton NY.
● Solo Exhibition & screening of dance film Les Parages East West, curated by Jeremy Dennis
2020. Performance Paysage / Performance as Landscape
Daniels Gallery, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
● Workshop & evening-length performance, commissioned by Pillow Culture & the University of Toronto.
2018. Drawing as Portal: Works on Paper
Curateur Collective, New York NY.
● Solo exhibition of drawings and performance Weather Cloud, curated by Emie Diamond
2017. Naviguer à vue
Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York NY.
● Solo exhibition & performance Analemma, curated by Emily Reilly
2015. All Blues
Baryshnikov Arts Center. New York NY.
● An evening-length performance, co-presented by New York Live Arts & BAC
Group Exhibitions (2024-2018)
2024. Artist’s Scores, Scenarios & Instructions
Salon d’Art. Gstaad Art, Switzerland.
● Group Exhibition curated by Piper Marshall & Kolja Glaeser with Cammisa Buerhaus
2023. Family Ties
Old Stone House. Brooklyn NY.
● Group Exhibition curated by Jeremy Dennis
2023. Dual Natures
Frampton Gallery. Bridgehampton NY.
● Group Exhibition curated by Casey Dalene
2022. A Land of All Possibles
Trotter & Sholer Gallery. New York NY.
● My performance & regenerative earthwork Dream Garden in the Anthropocene was shown in this 4-person group exhibition. Curated by Annelaure Lemaître.
2022. Fragmentary Blue
The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville CT.
● Group Exhibition curated by Joan Baldwin & Abigail Doan.
2019. REPOPULATIONS.
Kingsland Wildflowers, Brooklyn NY.
● Group Exhibition curated by Daniela Holban.
2019. Nocturna.
Crush Curatorial / Hesse Flatow. Amagansett, NY.
● Group Exhibition curated by Karen Flatow
2018. 10th Berlin Biennial, We Don’t Need Another Hero: Strange Attractors
KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Berlin, Germany.
● Curatorial Project: Artist Book & Group Exhibition that featured my drawings & performance scores, curated by Nomaduma Rosa Masilela
2018. Julius Eastman. That Which is Fundamental: Predicated.
The Kitchen. New York, NY.
● Group Exhibition curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden
2018. SYZYGY
TEST BED. Aronson Gallery, The New School. New York NY. March 2018.
● A Performance Commission in collaboration with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (sound artist)
2018. Xeno-Architecture.
Kaaitheatre. Brussels, Belgium.
● A Performance Commission about migration & architecture, curated by Armen Avanessian & Markus Miessen
Awards And Honors
• 2024 & 2025, Lauréate / Artist-in-Residence, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
• 2021, Artist-in-Residence, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Shinnecock Reservation / Southampton NY
• 2021, Tishman Environment & Design Center Faculty Grant
• Art & Olfaction Awards Finalist, 2014 & 2017
Portfolio
Studio Website