TOKI Does New York, A Documentary about Hye Rim Lee, 2008
Director: Dan Salmon, Octopus Pictures Ltd

Crystal City, C print, installation view, Max Lang Gallery, New York, 2008. Courtesy the artist, Kukje Gallery Seoul
Obsession/Love Forever, 3D animation, 8 channel video installation, Starkwhite, Auckland 2007 Courtesy the artist, Starkwhite Auckland, Kukje Gallery Seoul
Lash, 3D animation, installation view, The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland 2005 Courtesy the artist, Starkwhite Auckland, Kukje Gallery Seoul

Hye Rim Lee is a New York and Auckland based Korean artist. Known for her evolving computer-generated character TOKI through which Lee explores issues of femininity, plastic surgery, projection of desire, control and technological manipulation - she has promised a continuation of her challenge to what she calls the "phallic motivations" of dominant cyber culture, computer gaming, contemporary myth and animamix in the engagement with high technology and popular culture. Lee's work has been exhibited widely in the major solo and group exhibitions, Biennales, Artfairs in the US, Asia, Europe and Australasia. Her works become part of major art collection: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Adam Art Gallery, Te Papa, The University of Auckland, Ernst&Young, Saatchi&Saatchi NZ, Hara Museum, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea and major private collections worldwide.