Jae Rhim Lee
American artist (born 1975)
American artist (born 1975)
Jae Rhim Lee (born 1975 in Gwangju, South Korea) is an artist and TED Fellow working at the intersection of art, science, and culture. Lee aims to promote "acceptance of and a personal engagement with death and decomposition" by breeding a unique strain of mushroom that promotes environmentally friendly tissue decomposition upon death. Jae Rhim Lee has made proposals for other forms of body decomposition, including her ongoing projects "land AIR sea: We Are Sublime" and "land AIR sea: Pali-Pali Sari-Sari." She earned a B.A. degree in psychology from Wellesley College (1998) and an M.S. degree in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006). Lee served as a full time faculty member at Columbian College of Arts & Sciences during 2018.
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