Lee Mingwei: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture

Lee Mingwei, The Mending Project, 2009–present. Installation view of Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation, 2015, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Photo Courtesy of Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Join us for a lecture by artist Lee Mingwei followed by an audience Q & A. 

Doors open at 5:45 p.m. Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Explore the Visiting Artists Program homepage for visitor information, recordings of past events, and more.

Born in Taiwan and currently living in Paris, New York, and Taipei, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, in which visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking, and conversation. Lee’s projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction and take on different forms with participants' involvement and change during an exhibition. He has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Gropius Bau, Berlin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; M+, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and he has been featured in biennales in Venice, Lyon, Liverpool, Taipei, Shanghai, Sharjah, Sydney, the Whitney Museum, and Asia Pacific Triennials.

Established in 2006 by a generous gift from Bill and Stephanie Sick, this distinguished visiting professorship enables internationally renowned artists and designers to visit and teach at SAIC

This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. The auditorium is wheelchair accessible and hearing assisted devices are available. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.