MINA SYSTEM

(legal name: Michael Maughan Yuta Lee)

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EDUCATION

2021 MFA in Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY

2015 BFA in Studio Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2009 International Baccalaureate Diploma, emphasis in 2D Visual Art, Provo, UT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Bear Tulpa: Summoning, 80WSE Gallery, October 2019

Digital Mirror: Selfie Consciousness, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Fall 2016

Non-Player Character, 286, April 2015

Singing Static, Brigham Young University, Graphic Design Lab, February 2014

Great Heads, Brigham Young University, February 2014

Dual Citizen, Provo Arts Council, October 2013

Dolls for Sandplay Therapy, Brigham Young University, Gallery 303, October – December 2013

Mike Lee: Solo Exhibition, Scera Center for the Arts, October 2011

International Baccalaureate Visual Arts Final Exhibition, Brigham Young University, 2009

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

NYU MFA THESIS, 80WSE Gallery, April 2021

Tulpamancy, 80WSE Gallery, March 2019

Pond, NYU Steinhardt Barney Building Commons Gallery, February – March 2019

Art of Our Century, Woodbury Art Museum, June 2015

Group Show, Everett Studios, March 2015

Vera Hinckley Mayhew Creative Arts Contest, Brigham Young University, February 2015

Running Parallel, Gallery 303, Brigham Young University, December 2014

Open Studios, Brigham Young University, December 2014

Group Show, The Wye Art House, Berlin August 2014

Open Studios, Brigham Young University, February 2014

Half Double Split Divided, Gallery 468, November 2013

AWARDS/ GRANTS/ RESIDENCIES

Jack Goodman Scholarship in Art and Technology 2019

May and Samuel Rudin Foundation Multimedia Technology Scholarship 2019

NYU Steinhardt Graduate Scholarship 2018

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) Artist in Residence Program 2015 – 2016

Vera Hinckley Mayhew Creative Arts Contest, Brigham Young University, 1st Place in Visual Art 2014

Reverb Grant, Brigham Young University,, 2013

Brigham Young University, Visual Arts Department Talent Award Scholarship 2009, 2010, 2014

Utah State Sterling Scholar, Visual Arts, 2009

PRESS

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Interview: Mike Lee, Dec. 2016

15Bytes, Artists of Utah, Living in an Immaterial World: Mike Lee’s Digital Mirror: Selfie Consciousness at UMOCA, Nov. 2016

Inscape: A Journal of Literature and Art 2014

INTERNSHIPS/ RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS

Camille Henrot, Intern/Research Assistant 2015

Torben Giehler, Intern 2014

Sunny B. Taylor, Research Assistant 2010, 2013 – 2014

Fidalis Buehler, Research Assistant 2010