Beau Bree Rhee (she/they) is a visual artist and choreographer. Her work centers around body-space-ecologies and our radical dependencies with the environment and cosmos.
She works primarily with dance, drawing/painting and with poems, scores, and installation. Rhee is trilingual and tricultural (Korean-American-French). They are invested in collaborative and multi-modal work connecting disciplines such as cosmology, ecology, myth, sound. Their latest work Shadow of the Sea engages with myth as a lyrical means to navigate the Anthropocene.
Rhee has shown her work at institutions including The Kitchen; Madison Square Park Conservancy; Ma’s House BIPOC Art Studio; KW Institute for Contemporary Art; Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Kaaitheater Bruxelles; Baryshnikov Arts Center; MoMA/PS1. Rhee is a Professor at Parsons School of Design, and has guest lectured at Columbia University, Yale University, The Whitney Museum, Guild Hall East Hampton & others. In 2021, she was awarded a Tishman Environment and Design Center grant for a long-term land art project. She is based in NYC and is an amateur gardener and swimmer.
MFA, Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) Genève (2012)
BA, Art History and Dance cum laude Barnard College, Columbia University (2008)