CV

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2026–2027
Hand-Me-Down / Weiterreichen, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Humboldt Forum Berlin, curated by Uta Rahman Steinert

2025–2026
Constellations, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, curated by Rachel Jans

2023
Missing Merope, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Rachel Jans

2022–2023
Collecting Crave/Sammel-Sucht, special solo AR project, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, curated by Uta Rahman Steinert

2022
Books and Things, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, curated by Alexandra Chang

2021
Inventing Genealogies, New Media Artspace, Baruch College, New York, NY, curated by Katherine Behar

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
The Shape of What Remains, AHL Foundation, New York, NY, curated by 임수아 (Sooa Lim)

Berlin, the Bitch and the Witch, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin, curated by Arantxa Ciafrino

2025–2026
All Under Heaven/Alles unter dem Himmel, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, curated by Maria Sobotka

2025
Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Art Festival (NeMAF), Seoul, South Korea, invited film screening, curated by Jen Yeunho JANG KIM

2024
Meike 9, Atelierhof Kreuzberg / Schaufenster, Berlin, curated by Noemi Y. Molitor
PAR(I)TY WITH US, SALOON Berlin, aquabitArt Gallery, Berlin, curated by Sarah Maske, Nina Marlene Kraus, and Irina Ilieva

2023
UnBinding Bodies, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, curated by Evke Rulffes, Jasmin Mersmann, and Felix Sattler

2022–2023
UnBinding Bodies, Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, curated by Evke Rulffes, Jasmin Mersmann, and Felix Sattler

2022
Korean Diaspora: Ricepaper Airplanes, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea, curated by Tae-ho Lee, co-curated by Young-ri Lee

2021–2022
Intervention: Fresh Perspectives after 50 Years, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, curated by Rebecca Hall

SELECTED RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS

2026
Korea Artist-in-Residence, Asia Research Institute and Department of Art, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Goethe Institute, Glasgow Residency, CIRCUS: Acts of Assembly – Unruly Kinships, invited by Cat Dunn

2022–2023
Artist-in-Residence, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

2021
Artist-in-Residence, New Media Artspace, Baruch College, CUNY, New York

2020
Artist-in-Residence, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

2020
Artist-in-Residence, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT

2019
International Residency Fellowship, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea

2013
New Media Fellowship, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany

2013
James & Stephania McClennen Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

2012
Interdisciplinary Arts Fellowship, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH

2011
International Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

SELECTED AWARDS & GRANTS

2022
Korean Arts Foundation of America (KAFA), Biannual Awardee, Los Angeles

2022
Innovative Kunstprojekt, BBK-Bundesverband, Berlin

2022
Neustart Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn

2021
Research Stipend, Berlin Senate for Cultural Administration

2019
Biannual Project Grant, AHL Foundation, New York

2019
Heinrich Böll Stiftung Artist Grant, Berlin

2014
1st Place, Visual Arts Competition Award, AHL Foundation, New York

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2025
OUTO Changemaker Programme, Social Impact and Opening Up the Outdoors, DACH

2018
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Fellowship, Postgraduate Program for Women Artists, Berlin

2016
InKAS Korean Language Scholarship & Accommodation, Ewha University, Seoul

2015
Berlin Working Visual Artist Fellowship, Berlin Senate Chancellery Cultural Affairs

2009–2010
DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin

2006–2009
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Washington, DC

2000–2001
William J. Fulbright Scholarship, South Korea

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2025
Kim, Hosu and Kim, Yeongnan, Archive of the Missing: Speculative Visions and terms of Social Repair in Transnational Adoption (Positions: Asia Critique Vol 33: 2, 231 – 256).

2023
Jans, Rachel. Missing Merope. Korean Arts Foundation of America.

2023
Chun, Claire. “Monstrous Beauty: Unruly Bodies and Diasporic Plasticity in kate-hers RHEE, Multiverse Portraits.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.

2022
Lin, Jenny. “Poetics of Cross-Cultural Relation: Critical Performances by kate-hers RHEE and Patty Chang.” Konturen 12.

2020
Baik, Crystal Mun-hye. “Returns.” In Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory. Temple University Press.

2018
Van Hoesen, Brett M. “Winning: kate-hers RHEE and the Culture of Resistance.” In Golden Spoon, Dirt Spoon, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt.

SELECTED LECTURES, TALKS & UNIVERSITY PRESENTATIONS

2026
Tracing Adoption from South Korea: A Visual Timeline with Collective Participation, Hanyang Origin Project (HOP), International Korean Adoptee Association (IKAA) Gathering, Seoul, South Korea

BIPoC Athletic Adoptee Collective (BAAC), co-founder and presenter, International Korean Adoptee Association (IKAA) Gathering, Seoul, South Korea

2025
K-Masking Empire, in conversation with Professor Heijin Lee, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

2024
Run Towards My Family, Run Towards My Country, Artist Lecture, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Berlin

2024
Artist Panel, Queer Translation: Transnational Korean Literature, Art, and Criticism, Graduate Center, Sarah Lawrence College & CUNY

2024
Visual Material Perspectives from East Asia Workshop, University of Chicago

2024
Diaspora Asian Art Network, College Art Association, Chicago

2023
Artist and Curator Gallery Walkthrough with Rachel Jans and With Friends / 친구들하고 shorts screening, Missing Merope, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, organized in partnership with GYOPO

2023
Self-Representation as Transnational Feminist Practice, Artist Talk / Workshop, University of Applied Arts Vienna

2022
Reimagining and Restoring Ancestral Collections through Decolonial Practices, Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College

2022
Munbang-do (The Scholar’s Study), Rutgers University, Newark

2021
Artist Talk, New Media Artspace, Baruch College, CUNY

2020
Throat Sound, Visiting Artist Lecture Performance, Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration and Sexuality, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, invited by Eng-Beng Lim

2020
Visiting Artist Lecture, Vermont College of Fine Arts

2017
Artist Lecture, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Artist Lecture and Graduate Critiques, Stamps School of Art & Design and Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, invited by Prof. Y. David Chung

SELECTED WRITING

2026
Rhee, Mirae kh. “Sentimental Kinships: Korean Adoptees and the Long Arc of Korean American Belonging.” Korean Quarterly, Spring 2026.

2025
Rhee, Mirae kh. “Born Again Korean: An Autoethnographical Reckoning with Adoption.” In Family Matters: Global Stories about Affiliation, Disruption, and Belonging, edited by Laura Goldenbaum and Alia Rayyan, 210–219. Berlin: Humboldt Forum, 2025.

2024
Rhee, Mirae kh. “Transkoreaning: Decolonizing Adopted Identity through Artistic Practices and a Return to Home.” In Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film, edited by Jean Amato and Kyunghee Pyun, 219–236. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

EDUCATION

MFA, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine

BFA, Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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