Nikki S. Lee was born in Korea in 1970. She received her Master's of Art degree from New York University. She is now living and working as a photographer in New York and is world renown for her artwork. In Nikki's work, she completely infuses herself into another culture completely unknown to her, and lives in that culture for a certain amount of time. The end products are photographs of her immersed in the culture with a series of several different people. In these projects, she has become a punk, a hispanic, african american, lesbian, an eldery woman, and a swing dancer. She always explains in advance to these people that she is an artist working on a project, but the people don't always believe here. She then had either one of her new friends, or someone passing by take a snapshot of her with a snapshot camera.
Artist Gallery
http://www.numarkgallery.com/
Artist Interview
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/seeingandwriting3/interviews/interview5.asp
Artist Review
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E7DF123DF933A2575AC0A96F958260
Artist Website
http://www.tonkonow.com/lee.html
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