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Daniel Lee
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Born in China and raised in Taiwan. Lives and works in New York.

1972 Master of Arts, Philadelphia University of Art, Philadelphia, USA

1968 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

 

HARVEST

Science has allowed the possibility of extending our lives, but has never satisfied humanity’s greed. The replacement of diseased or aged organs with healthy ones is now the key to longevity. Benefiting from stem cell and the decoding of animal DNA, the acceptance of organs from our fellow animals eventually would provide us with a fresh stock of donors.

I was told that pigs are biologically more similar to humans then sheep, and they have been used for dissection in biology labs due to the similarity between their organs and human organs.

I invite you to a not too distant future in a location populated with a breed of livestock that supplies human eyes, hearts, livers and other harvested organs. In generations to come, these animals will become more than organ hosts, they will incorporate the science that created them, evolving with traits and behaviors that are distinctly human.

In the world of these new creatures, I see a discovery of joy and sorrow, which would in many ways be similar to ours. As a result, the success of science would inevitably raise greater questions once again…

~Daniel Lee 2004

 

Exhibition

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 “Daniel Lee SHUFFLE” at Da Xin Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan 

2020 “Dreams/Daniel Lee” at Da Xin Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan 

2019 “Return to the Sea” at Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan 

2016 “N•E•X•T” at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2016 “Looking Glass/Daniel Lee Retrospective” at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2014 "Daniel Lee/Metamorphing" at OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China

2013 "Circus" at In-Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan

2012 "Trace to the Origin: Daniel Lee Retrospective" at Luoca Art Center, Xiamen, China

2011 "Circus" at Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China

2011 "Animal Instinct/Photographs of Daniel Lee" at San Antonio Museum of Art, USA

2011 "Circus" at Tangram Art Center, Shanghai, China

2010 "Circus" at East Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2009 "Then, Now & Next" at Tangram Art Center, Shanghai, China

2009 "Dreams" at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

2009 "Is by Daniel Lee" at MiMA Workshop, Verona, Italy

2008 "Dreams" at Pata Gallery Contemporary Art, Beijing, China      

2008 "Harvest" at Gallery Now, Seoul, South Korea 

2008 "Daniel Lee 1993-2007 Retrospective" at Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2008 "Dainel Lee 1993~2007 Retrospective" at Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2008 "Daniel Lee" at Gallery Now, Seoul, Korea

2008 "Jungle" at In-Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan

2007 "Xintiandi" at East Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2007 "Xintiandi" at Pata Gallery Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2005 "Harvest" at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

2004 "Harvest" at East Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2004 "Harvest" at Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2001 "Nightlife" at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

1999 "Origin and Judgment" at Featured Artist, Cyber 99, CCB, Lisbon, Portugal

1999 "Origin" at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

1997 "108 Windows" at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

1996 "Manimals" at J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1994 "udgment" at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

1993 "Manimals" at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 “Return to the Sea” at Taoyuan Art Museum for Children, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2019 “XIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale” at Krasnoyarsk Museum Center , Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2018 “Hyper Prometheus” at Perth Contemporary Art Center, Perth, Australia

2016 "Beyond the Frame" New Media Art of Taiwan” at Long Beach Museum of Art, Los Angelas, USA

2016 “Me in the Photography” at Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea

2013 "Post-Humanist Desire" at Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2013 "Collecting Is Curiosity" at New Mexico Museum of Art, New Mexico, USA

2012 "Petersburg Photo Vernissage 2012" at CEH Manege, St. Petersburg

2012 "Wordly House, dOCUMENTA (13)" at Kassel, Germany

2011 "Next Body" at Digital Art Festival at Huashan Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan 

2011 "108 Windows and Xintiandi" in Non Human at National Art Zone, Hsinchu, Taiwan 

2010 "Notions Of Time" at Santa Fe Complex, New Mexico, USA

2010 "Contemporary Artworks by Taiwan-American Artists" at AIT, Taipei, Taiwan 

2010 "A Form of Memories" at Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Japan

2010 "Theriomorphic" at Betta Frigieri Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy

2010 "Point of Zero" at Doulon Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

2009 "Metamorphing" at NCK University, Tainan, Taiwan

2009 "Become Human Become Animal" at New Society for Visual Arts, Berlin

2008 "X=Secret" at Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan    

2008 "Room 19" at Kuando Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2008 "Ancient Future" at Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2008 "Art of Taiwan" at National Moravian Gallery, Czech Republic

2007 "Jungle" at Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2007 "Impermanence" at Biennale of Electronic Art in Perth, Australia

2007 "X-Generation" at Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France

2007 "Taiwan: From within the Mist" at Vancouver Int’ Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Canada

2007 "Zoom on China, Zoom magazine sponsor, Featured Artist" Brescia, Italy

2007 "Art & Artifice of Science" at Museum of Fine Art, New Mexico, USA

2006 "Hyper Design" at Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art museum, China

2006 "Digiarte 2006" at Limonaia of Bardini, Florence, Italy

2006 "In Vivo In Vitro" at Ergostasio Center, Athens, Greece

2005 "Hybrid, Featured Artist" at Ars Electronica 2005, Linz, Austria

2005 "Future Face" at National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan

2005 "Light Conversation" at Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA, USA

2004 "Il Bello e le bestie" at Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

2004 "Animal Instincts, at Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA, USA

2004 "Whitstable Biennale, Featured Artist" at Kent, UK

2004 "Exposed" at Stadtische Museen Heilbornn, Germany

2004 "Phantastic Art" at Landes Museum, Linz, Austria 

2003 "Limbo Zone" at 50th Biennale, Venice, Italy

2003 "Metamorphing, transformation in science, art and mythology" at Science Museum, London, UK

2002 "Gene(sis)" at Contemporary Art Explores Human Genetics, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

1999 "Photography and the Human Soul 1850-2000" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

1998 "Revolution" at First Decade of Digital Photo, Museum of Science & Technology, Milan, Italy

1996 "Myth and Magic" at California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA , USA

1996 "Il Ritratto Maltrattat" at IL Diaframma, Milan, Italy

1995 "Manimals" at Galerie du Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, France 

 

Public Collections

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Taipei Fine Art Museum and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, France; the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, U.S.; the Landes Museum, Linz, Austria; the National Museum of Art in Taiwan; The Wellcome Trust Museum, London, UK; Shanghai Art Museum, China; Museo Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporanea, Spain, Busan Museum of Art, Korea, Sweden Museum of Natural History, dOcumenta, Germany, White Rabbit Collection, Australia and Wellcome Collection Museum. 

Recent Exhibitions

● 2024/01/26~2024/01/28

ONE ART Taipei 2024 "Evolution of Daniel Lee’s Photography"


● 2012/03/31~2012/05/31

Origin to Past


● 2010/10/10~2010/10/31

Circus


● 2009/05/09~2009/05/31

Then, Now & Next


● 2008/11/22~2009/01/08

X SECRET


● 2008/08/29~2008/09/02

Art Taipei 2008


● 2008/07/25~2008/07/27

Art Osaka 2008


● 2008/06/02~2008/06/27

Series Exhibition 1993~2007


● 2007/11/15~2007/11/19

Shanghai Art Fair 2007


● 2007/05/05~2007/05/20

Nightlife/Xintinadi


● 2005/12/15~2006/03/12

Future Face


● 2005/09/01~2005/09/06

Ars Electronica 2005


● 2005/08/06~2005/11/13

Future Face


● 2005/04/08~2005/04/12

Art Taipei 2005


● 2005/04/08~2005/04/12

Harvest


● 2004/11/19~2005/01/23

CO4 Harvest/Celebration 2004


 

 
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