EDUCATION
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BA Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Devening Projects + Edition, Chicago, IL
2007 Jin Lee, Anne Arden McDonald, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago, IL
2006 Prairie: Four Seasons, Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicage, IL
2005 Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, IL
Ryerson Woods, Deerfield, IL
Kim Beck, Jin Lee, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2004 Wind and Prairie, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa (catalog)
2003 Jin Lee, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2001 Jin Lee, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2000 New Landscapes, Barat College Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
1999 Wendy Jacob/Jin Lee, Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Girls and Company, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of American LaSalle Collection, Chicago Cultural Center,
2007 Meditations on the Grammar of Landscape, State of Illinois Museum, Chicago IL
go between, Devening Project + Edition, Chicago IL
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific /American (A/P/A) Institute at New York University
Tendency to Pile, MN Gallery, Chicago IL
2006 Unpaved Paradise, City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, Chicago IL
Opening the Vault: Selections from the Permanent Collecion, Sioux City Art Center, IA
Poetry: Literal, Visual & Otherwise, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago IL
Ragdale, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2005 Withdrawal, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
The Promised Land, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago IL
Sad Songs, Illinois State University Gallery, Normal IL (catalog)
FALLAYAVADA, UCI University Art Gallery, Irvin CA (catalog)
2004 ISU Faculty Biennial, Illinois State University Gallery, Normal, IL (catalog)
2003 Only Skin Deep National Survey, International Center for Photography online exhibition
Paradise Now, Tulane University, New Orleans, LO
2002 THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Aleppo International Women¹s Arts Festival, Aleppo, Syria
2001 The Crafted Image: 19th-century Techniques in Contemporary Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Paradise Now, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Walking, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Sight, Site, Insight, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, IL
Seven Midwest Photographers, Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumburg, IL
2000 Paradise Now, Exit Art, New York, NY
Tenacity, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Cameraless Wonders, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Walking, Illinois State University Art Galleries, Normal, IL
Decade by Decade: A Century of Art and Music, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Genealogies, Miscegenations, Missed Generations, William Benton Museum of Art, U of CT, Storrs, CT (catalog)
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2006 Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Ucross, WY
2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Artist Fellowship, New York NY
2004 Illinois State Univeristy Faculty Research Grant, Normal IL
2003 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2001 Creative Time Artist Grant, New York NY
MacDowell Artist Colony, Peterborough NH
2000 Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Ucross WY
1999 Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency, Lake Forest IL
1998 The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs NY
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago IL
Madison Art Center, Madison WIMuseum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago IL
Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City IA
City of Chicago Public Art Collection
LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago IL
SELECTED REVIEWS & ESSAYS
Michael Weinstein, “The Grammar of Landscape”, New City, October 2007
Margare Hawkins, "Chicago photographers", Chicago Sun-Times June 2006
Chris Cook, "Wind and Prarie", Sioux City Art Center exhibition brochure, 2005
Martin Patrick, "Sad Songs" Illinois State Univerity Galleries, exbhibition catalog, 2005
Michael Weinstein , "Prairie ", New City, 6/2004
Victor Cassidy, "Prairie Smoke", artnet online magazine, 7/2003
Young Soon Min, "THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora", Gwangju Biennale catalog, 2002
Penley Knipe, "American Portrait Silhouettes" Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 2002
Christine Temin, "Photography¹s past, future examined", Boston Globe, 2/10/2001
Michael Kimmelman, "Paradise Now", New York Times, 9/15/2000
Susan Snodgrass, "Wendy Jacob/Jin Lee", Art in America, 4/1999
Laurie Palmer, "Wendy Jacob/Jin Lee", McLean Art Center exhibition essay, 1999
“New Photography” by Toby Kamps, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 1995
PUBLICATIONS
2008 Jin Lee: Wind and Prairie, Sioux City Art Center, exhibition catalog, upcoming
2004 The Land Report, The Land Institute, Salina Kansas
2002 Lyle Rexer, Antiquarian Avant-Garde, Abrams Press, NY
1998 Book of Heads, artist book, distributed by Printed Matters, NY, and Sara Ranchhouse Publishing, Chicago
1996 Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, Temple University Press
1996 Artist project, Ms Magazine, July/August
1991 Artist project, WhiteWalls: A Journal of Language and Art, summer
TEACHING
Illinois State University, Normal, IL-Associate Professor, School of Art (1996 - present)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL-Adjunct Assistant Professor, Photography Department, (1991-1996)
Columbia College, Chicago, IL-Instructor, Photography Department, (1990-1996)