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 performance and drawing/painting, and additionally 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, geology, sound. Their latest work Shadow of the Sea engages with myth as a lyrical means to navigate the Anthropocene.
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/Berlin Biennale; Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Kaaitheater Bruxelles; Baryshnikov Arts Center; MoMA/PS1. Their work is in the MoMA Library and Research Collection, and has been in The New York Times. Rhee is an Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design, and has been a guest speaker at Guild Hall East Hampton, Columbia University, and The Whitney Museum. In 2021, she was awarded a Tishman Environment and Design Center grant to begin a long-term land art project.
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). She is based in NYC and is an amateur gardener and swimmer. 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.
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
Updated exhibitions & performances can be found on studio website linked below
Awards And Honors
• 2024, 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: Atelier de Geste