South Korean–born artist Mirae kh RHEE (이미래 / 李未來) works between the United States, South Korea, and Germany. Shaped by a transracial life across languages and cultural systems, their work is informed by translation, code-switching, and the negotiation of identity, belonging, and power. Through a transnational feminist lens, RHEE creates expansive Gesamtkunstwerke that weave autoethnographic narrative with participatory performance, textile, installation, and emerging technologies. Their projects unfold across bodies, archives, and public space, positioning lived experience as both material and method.
RHEE received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine, as a Graduate Studies Diversity Scholar and a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, supported by a four-year merit scholarship and a four-year Ewald Foundation scholarship.
Notable recent solo exhibitions include Constellations, San Diego Museum of Art (2025); Missing Merope, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (2023), Sammel-Sucht/Collecting Crave, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin (2022 – 23), Books and Things, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (2022); and Inventing Genealogies, New Media Artspace, Baruch College, NY (2021). Residencies and fellowships include Baruch College (2021), German Arts Council Women in Media and Culture Mentoring Program (2021), Vermont College of Fine Arts (2020), Incheon Art Platform (2019), Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt (2018), the Berlin Senate Working Artist Stipend (2015), Millay Colony for the Arts (2013), MacDowell (2012), among others. Their work has been supported by a Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur stipend, Puffin Foundation grant, Berlin Senate Research grant, the AHL Foundation First Biannual Art grant, and a Heinrich Böll Stiftung Artist grant. In 2022 RHEE was the Korea Arts Foundation of America (KAFA) Awardee and the first adopted Korean American artist to receive this honor.
RHEE is an artist, researcher, writer, and speaker. RHEE recently gave lectures and presentations at the University of Hawai’i, Center for Korean Studies and Saloon Network Berlin. Current and upcoming group and solo exhibitions include; Alles unter dem Himmel, the Museum für Asiatische Kunst/Asian Art Museum Berlin (Nov 2025 – 2026); Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin (2026); and Hand-Me-Down, the Museum für Asiatische Kunst/Asian Art Museum Berlin (Jun 2026).
RHEE also publishes research notes, studio developments, and essays on adoption, archives, and cultural politics via Substack, using the platform to test ideas, share process, and circulate materials that extend beyond exhibition formats.