Visiting Artists Program (VAP) Resource Guides

The Visiting Artists Program resource guides contain upcoming speakers' biographies, articles, video and audio content, related publications in the Flaxman Library, and additional online resources. These guides may be used in the classroom in preparation for the event, research, or post-lecture discussion.

Lee Mingwei: Bill & Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor
Tuesday, October 21, 6:00–7:30 p.m. 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation services.

Join us for a lecture by artist Lee Mingwei followed by an audience Q&A.  

Born in Taiwan and currently living in Paris, New York, and Taipei, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, in which visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking, and conversation. Lee’s projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction and take on different forms with participants' involvement and change during an exhibition. He has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Gropius Bau, Berlin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; M+, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and he has been featured in biennales in Venice, Lyon, Liverpool, Taipei, Shanghai, Sharjah, Sydney, the Whitney Museum, and Asia Pacific Triennials.

Established in 2006 by a generous gift from Bill and Stephanie Sick, this distinguished visiting professorship enables internationally renowned artists and designers to visit and teach at SAIC

Lee Mingwei. Photo Courtesy of Lee Studio, photo by Andrew NianZhu Lee

Artist Website

Lee Mingwei's Website

Gallery Representation

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Site-Specific Performance Explores Sacred Spaces Through Rice, Dance, and Sweeping
Eva Baron | My Modern Met | May 11, 2025

Lee Mingwei's anti-war work, ‘Guernica in Sand’, feels more relevant than ever
Gareth Harris | The Art Newspaper | March 28, 2025

TEXTILES WITH LEE MINGWEI
Lucija Sutej | SURSUMA | January 27, 2025

Mending Our Ways, at the de Young in San Francisco
Brian T. Allen | National Review | June 13, 2024

LEE MINGWEI: “WE ARE NOT BROKEN”
Emma Robertson | The Talks | April 10, 2024

The Art of Participation
Jessica Zack | Alta | March 25, 2024

The Essential Works of Lee Mingwei
Camilla Alvarez-Chow | Art Asia Pacific | March 5, 2024

Tackle your traumas at this new—and free—exhibition at the de Young Museum
Julie Zigoris | The San Francisco Standard | February 16, 2024

‘We all have personal history’: Lee Mingwei metabolizes anxieties through ‘breath drawings’
Tony Bravo | Datebook: SF Chronicle | February 8, 2024

Lee Mingwei’s Our Labyrinth at London’s Tate Modern
Beatrice Grenier | Art Asia Pacific | July 29, 2022

Dancing With Rice: A Meditative Pas de Deux at the Met
Gia Kourlas | The New York Times | September 18, 2020
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Lee Mingwei: Guernica in Sand
Lee Mingwei recreates Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) on a massive scale using an unexpected material—sand at M+ in Hong Kong. On view March 8–July 13, 2025.

BEST REGARDS, LEE MINGWEI
 Moderna Museet Malmö will present Lee Mingwei’s works that evolve throughout the exhibition period, alongside documentation providing insight into the artist’s methods. On view September 26, 2025–November 1, 2026.

Lee Mingwei: Rituals of Care
Asking how art can encourage social connection and healing in a time of so much trauma and loss, the exhibition features projects made between 1995 and 2024 that place the visitor at the center of radical acts of generosity and care. Previously on view February 17–July 7, 2024.

Visiting Artists Program Lecture Recordings from the Archive
SAIC Visiting Artists Program video and audio lecture recordings (1977–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.

SAIC Digital Collections: Visiting Artists Program
SAIC Visiting Artists Program publicity archive and audio recordings (1977–98).