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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2005
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt,Germany

2004
Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2003
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Nikki S. Lee, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2002
Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

2001
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

2000
Gallery Gan, Tokyo
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

1999
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005

Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity, Sante Fe Art Institute, Sante Fe, NM
Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, The Milwaukee Art Museum
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photograpy, The Jewish Museum, New York
Maximum Flavor, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Morir de Amor, Museo Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City
Things Fall Apart, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Focus On: New Photography, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago,IL
A Kiss Isn’t Just A Kiss, Contemporary Galleries, University of Connecticut in Storrs,CT
How to Read, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Say It Loud! A Hip Hop Conversation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY
Will Boys Be Boys? (curated by Shamim Momin), Independent Curators International, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York.

2004

In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Beauty Matter, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York
Self Exposed, Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Picturing Modernity: Photographs from The Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Contested Fields, The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Seattle Art Museum, WA
Portraits and Places: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, BronxMuseum of the Arts, NY
Sublime Audacity - The Stroller's Experience, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
Exhibiting Signs of Age, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Sugar and Snails, The Park School of Baltimore, Brooklandville, MD
Double Takes: Transformations Through the Lens, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
If it's not love, it's the bomb, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY
Disguise, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Imag(in)ing Western Culture, The Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis,MO
Contemporary Photography from the Harn Museum Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL

2003
Istanbul Biennial
Exhibiting Signs of Age, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York
Skin Deep, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
American Dream, Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York
Harlem Postcards II, Winter 2003, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York
Framing the Real, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY

2002
Who? Me? Role-Playing in Self-Portrait Photography, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Character and Choice: Nikki S. Lee, Yasumasa Mormura and Tomoko Sawada, Japan Society, New York
The Brixton Studio, The Photographers Gallery, London
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool
Hello My Name Is . . ., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
Tribe, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Portrait as Performance, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
Mirror Image, The Hammer Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles
Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Pictures, Greene Naftali, New York
Women by Women, Cook Fine Art, New York
Presenting/Receiving: Subjecting Photography, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY

2001
One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Purloined, Artists Space, New York
Fresh: Recent Acquisitions, The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Recent Acquisitions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; The Lowry,Salford Quays, UK
Bodily Acts, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY
The Volatile Real, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY
Chelsea Rising, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Tell It Like It Is: Photography, Diehl Vorderwülbecke, Berlin, Germany

2000
Staged and Manipulated: Photographic Fictions from St. Louis Collections, The Saint Louis Museum of Art, Saint Louis, MO
The Museum of FineArts, Houston,TX
The Bigger Picture, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, International Center of Photography, New York
Process/Reprocess: Japan and the West, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Greater New York, MoMA/PS 1, Long Island City,NY
The Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
DéjàVu, Art Miami 2000, Miami, FL
Represent: A Show of Identities, The Parrish ArtMuseum, Southhampton,NY

2000
Who's That Girl? Teseco Fondazione per l'Arte, Pisa,Italy
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by Fifty Women Artists, DC Moore Gallery, New York
ID Y2K: Identity at the Millenium, The College of NewRochelle, New Rochelle, NY

1999
Mug Shots, The Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Guarene Arte 99, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Turin,Italy
The Calendar Project, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale- on-Hudson, NY
Who's That Girl? Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Generation Z, PS 1, Long Island City, NY
Open: Nikki S. Lee: Projects, Real Art Ways, Hartford,CT
Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center for the Arts, Summit, NJ
No Place Rather Than Here, 303 Gallery, New York
The Cultured Tourist, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago

1998
The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The La Salle Bank, Chicago,IL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,New York
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
International Center of Photography,New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
The Museum of FineArts, Houston
The New School, New York
Sinex Collection, Oslo, Norway
The Saint Louis ArtMuseum, St. Louis,MO
The Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence,KS
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland,OH
The Refco Collection, Chicago, IL

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HONORS

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2002

EDUCATION

MA in Photography, New York University, 1999
AAS, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 1996
BFA, Chung-Ang, College of Arts, University of Korea, 1993