Lee Arrington Wells IV.
Born 1971, Syracuse, New York

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Biography

Curatiorial Projects

2008
        National Center for Contemporary Art, DRIFT, Nov 28 - Dec 28, Moscow, Russia.
        (as part of In Transition Russia 2008, orgaized NEME and NCCA) 
        National Center for Contemporary Art ,  DRIFT, Nov 10-23, Moscow, Russia.
        Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, DRIFT, Oct 16 - Nov 16., Ekaterinburg, Russia
        (as part of In Transition Russia 2008, orgaized NEME and NCCA)
        "Product" Festival of Contemporary Art, Varna, Bulgaria
        Scope Basel, [PAM], The Future Was Then, June 3-8, Basel, Switzerland.
        CIRCA Puerto Rico, CIRCA LABS Video with Myritza Castillo, Apr 11-14. San Juan, PR.
        Volta New York, Drift, Special Project, co-curated with Alisa Prudnikova, March 26 - 30, New York.  
        Scope New York, [PAM], The Future Was Then, March 26 - 30, New York, NY.

2007
        Pace Digital Gallery, Teleculture, Pace University, New York, NY.      
        Jersey City Museum, 1800 Frames, Jersey City, NJ.
        House of Campari, New York, [PAM], Chief Curated by Simon Watson, LA, CA.
        Chelsea Art Museum, [PAM] Video Art In the Age of the Internet,  NY, NY.
        WRO07 - XII International Media Art Biennale, Wrosaw, Poland
        Scope Hamptons, [PAM] and friends, July 25-29, East Hampton, NY.
        House of Campari, Los Angeles, [PAM], Chief Curated by Simon Watson, LA, CA.
        Circa Art Fair, Video Curator, March 30 - April 2, San Juan, Puerto Rico 
        2nd. Moscow Biennial, Special Project, Guest Curator, Video Box : We Are Your Future, March 1 - April 1,  Moscow, Russia,
        Chief Curated by Juan Puntes and Ethan Cohen.     
        Scope New York, Curator at Large / [PAM], February 22-25, New York, NY.
2006
        City Without Walls, 1800 Frames / Take 3, Co-curated with Mica Scalin, Dec 14 - Jan 18, Newark, NJ.
        Scope Miami, Curator at Large / [PAM],  December 6-10, 2006, Miami, FL.
        M21, Helios Oceanus, Environmental video installations by Janet Biggs, Andrea Juan
        and Christina McPhee, Dec 6-10, 2006, Gansevort Southm Miami Beach, FL.
        Scope London, Cinema-scope Curator / [PAM], October 12-15, 2006, London, UK.
        Liverpool Biennial 2006, Transvoyeur Project Co-curator, Liverpool, UK.
        Monkey Town Semennial, Curatorial Advisor, Brooklyn, NY.   
        Scope Hamptons, Chief Curator / [PAM],  July 14-16, 2006, Wainscott, NY.    
        Scope New York, Cinema-scope Curator / [PAM], March 10-13, 2006, New York, NY.
2005            
        Scope Miami, The Momentarily Seduction of Now, December 1-4, Miami Beach, FL.
        Scope London, Tomorrow Was the Day Before, Cinemascope, Oct. 21-24, London, Endland.
        Scope Hamptons, That Uncomfortable Place Between Beginning and Ending, Cinemascope. July   
        14-17, Southampton, NY.
2004
        Ashmore Gallery, Active Duty 2 : October Surprise, Miami Beach, Fl. Co-curated with Nicole Dupont
        Studio 84, Active Duty, Armed Artists of America , Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
1996-present
        IFAC / IF Gallery - Co-founder / Director, Chicago, IL.
        Various Exhibitions, installations, performances and Public Works.
1999-2000            
        Around The Coyote Arts Festival / Exe Media Festival, Chicago, IL.
        New Media Director / Curator.

Solo Exhibitions
2009  
        Janet Oh Gallery, Super Modern, Seoul, Korea.
        Western Michigan University, Frostic School of Art, Atrium Gallery, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

2004            
        MOCADC, Museum of Contemporary Art, American Trend, Curated by Michael Clark, Washington, D.C.
        Lobby Gallery, Machines of Power and other fun stuff, Chicago, IL.
        The Lab Gallery, American Trend, New York, NY.
2002
        Austin Modern, Once Upon A Time Today, Austin, TX.
        Christine Wang Fine Art, scope Miami, Miami, FL.
2000
        IFAC, Meta-Neo, New Works by Lee Wells, Chicago, IL
        Gallery 2828, Project Room, New Works, Chicago, IL.
1997
        The Dome Room, Chicago Arts Invitational, Chicago, IL.
1996
        IFAC, US vs. Them, New Works by Lee Wells, Chicago, IL.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
        The State Hemitage Museum, Cyland Cyber-festival, St. Petersburg, Russia, Nov.
        Streaming Festival, International Festival for Audio Visual Art, Nov 20-30 (Online)
        7 in 6 / TIme Vs. Space, curated by Lynn del Sol and Lisa Hedge on behalf of the                 Williamsburg Gallery Association (WGA), Brooklyn, NY.
        Songdo International City, Tomorrow City Robot Project, Incheon, Korea, Aug - Dec
        Kimpo International Airport, Video Forest, 96 DID HD video corridor, Seoul, Korea.
        AC Institute, The Armory Show, Live from the Limo, performance with Sawako, NY, NY.
2008
        National Centre for Contemporary Art , In Transition, Moscow, Russia.
        National Centre for Contemporary Art , In Transition, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
        NeMe and Lanitis Foundation, The Mirror Stage, Limassol, Cyprus.
        Hanes Art Gallery , Wake Forest University, Scales Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
        CONFLUX Festival , Artists Meeting, Public Exhibition Space, New York, NY.
        QCC Art Gallery, Video Synthesis, Curated by Ryan Seslow.
        galerija10m2 , Video-Salon II, Saravejo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
        Flatland Limo Project, Armory Pier 94, March 28-30, curated by Holly Crawford,New York.
2007
        Janet Oh Gallery , Canvas, Seoul, Korea
        Janet Oh Gallery, Reemerge N.Y, Seoul, Korea
        Lentos Kunstmuseum / Museum of Modern Art, Video As Urban Condition, Linz, Austria
        Dumbo Arts Festival, Artist Meeting Gumbo@Dumbo, Sept 28-30, Brooklyn , NY
        Robodock Festival, [PAM], Sept 19-22, Amsterdam Holland
       Chelsea Art Museum, [PAM] Video Art In the Age of the Internet,  NY, NY.
       WRO07 - XII International Media Art Biennale, Wrosaw, Poland
        Coachella Music and Arts Festival, [PAM], April 27-29, 2007, Curated by Philip Blane, Indio, CA.
        galerija10m2 , Video-Salon II, Saravejo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
        PS1 /MoMA , Emergency Room, February 2007, Curated by Thierry Geoffry, New York, NY.
2006
        Monkey Town, Bacchanale!, Brooklyn, NY.
        Split Film Festival, [PAM], Curated by Jasna Gluic, Sept. 25 - Oct. 1, 2006, Split Croatia.
        Name Multimedia Festival, [PAM], Sept. 21-23, 2006, Lille France.
        Liverpool Biennial, Independents 2006, TransVoyeur, September 16 - November 26,
        co-organized with Gaynor Sweeney, Tony Knox and Michael Ricardo Andrev, Liverpool, England.
        DIGIt Media Festival, Deleware Valley Arts Alliance, [PAM], August 19 - 25, 2006.
        Curated by G.H. Hovagimyan, Narowsburg, NY.
        WeissPollack Gallery, COUP, Curated by Cadice Madey, April 13- May 20, 2006, New York, NY.
        galerija10m2, Video-Salon, Saravejo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2005 
        51 st La Biennale Di Venezia, Isola Della Poesia, Island San Secondo, Venice, Italy.
        Curated by Caterina Davinio and Achille Bonito Oliva.       
        Version>05 Festival, Invincible Desire, April 22 - May 1, 2005, Chicago, IL.
        Lobby Gallery, NFO Expo, Zhou B Center, 1029 w.35th st., Apr 30 - May 1
        NOVA Young Art Fair, Represented by Lobby Gallery, April 28 - May 1, Chicago, IL.
        Broadway Gallery, Funkadelicide, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi, New York, NY.
        Woman in Service for America Memorial, Arlinton National Cemetry, Faces of the Fallen, 
        organized by Annette Polan, Arlington, VA.
2004
        Ashmore Gallery, High Art : Perspectives, Curated by Nicole Dupont, Miami Beach, FL.
        Frisbee Art Fair, Joymore Gallery (Brooklyn), Miami Beach, FL.
        Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Multiple Strategies, Curated by Matt Distel, Cincinnati, OH.
        Ashmore Gallery, The Art of Politics, Curated by Nicole Dupont, Miami Beach, FL.
        Salomon-Barthelemy Fine Arts, Nature Art Environment , New York, NY.
        Photo Fair New York, WAR.ART Multiple, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY.
        Studio 84, Active Duty, Armed Artists of America, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
        Leadbased, Drawn , Curated by Paul Weston, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
        Air Space Gallery, Secrets of All Societies , Curated by Jonathan Shorr, New York, NY.
        Museo Storico della Fanteria, dall'Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Obiettivo Pax
        Curated by Giovanna Minnucci and Arcangela Parisi, Rome, Italy.
2003
        MART, Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Libertá in immagini e parole
        Curated by Giovanna Minnucci ,Roverto, Italy.
        Ols & Co.Gallery, Nth Art Collective Exhibit.001, London, England.
        MOCADC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Darlings Star, Washington, D.C.
        Galerie Lelong, Visual AIDS, Postcards from the Edge, Nov 16, 2003
2002
        Artist Space, Night of 1000 Drawings, New York, NY.
        Art Center College of Design, Reactions, Pasadena, CA
        Museum of American Illustration, Prevailing Human Spirit , New York, NY.
        Nikolai Fine Art, Anodyne, New York, NY.
2001
        Exit Art, Reactions, New York, NY.
        Artist Space, Minute, curated by Leah Oates, New York, NY.
        Nikolai Fine Art, Snakes, Snails & Puppy Dog Tails, New York, NY.
2000
        ATC SPACE, Gala, curated by Olga Stephan, Chicago, IL.
1999
        Avantgarde-Ariergarde Festival, ImageBomb, Insko, Poland
        ARC, Artists Against Police Brutality, Chicago, IL.
1998
        Gallery 312, Chicago Artists 1998, Chicago, IL.
        Maison Francaise-French Cultural Centre, Virtual Grafitti, Nairobi, Kenya
        Kunstakademiet, Point Project, Trondheim, Norway
        Media Union Gallery, University of Michigan, Immedia, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
        Baret International Gallery, 25$ Show, Chicago, IL.
1997
        Heart Galerie, Virtual Grafitti, Paris, France.
        Museum of Contemporary Art, Performance Anxiety, Chicago, IL.
        Randolph Street Gallery, 11, Chicago. IL.
        Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, The Group Sports Show, Chicago, IL.
1996
        IFAC, Let Them Eat Art, Chicago, IL.
        Circa Gallery (FOTA), Group Shows, Chicago, IL.
1995
        Circa Gallery (FOTA), Group Shows, Chicago, IL.
        Art Attack Gallery, Group Shows, Chicago, IL.
1994
        Art Attack Gallery, Group Shows, Chicago, IL.
1992
        Der Shrine Rai, Kunst Auslander, Schwienfurt, Germany

Performance

2000-2003
        Collective Unconscious, New York, NY.
2000  
        Box Opera, New York, NY

Symposiums / Lectures / Workshops
2009   
      Princeton University, Walking a Fine Line – a screening/discussion on Russian video art.
      Scope Art Fair, Russian Video and New Media panel discussion, moderator.
2008   
      Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, New Media Art Lecture
      Ural State University, The Brief History of Internet Art, Lecture, Ekaterinburg, Russia
      NCCA Yekatrinburg, Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux
      Central Florida University, UFC Art Gallery, Visiting Artist, Orlando, Fl.
2007
      Teleculture, Artists Talk, Pace University, New York, NY.
      1800 Frames, City Without Walls - Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
2006   
        The Birth of a 21st Century Video Archive: An Analysis of the Creation and Implementation of [PAM] the Perpetual Art 
        Machine. Split Film Festival, Presenting Discussion, Split Croatia.
        Steve.museum at the AAM Annual Meeting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1998
        Visiting Artist, Invited by Miroslaw Rogala Ph.D., New Media Arts Dept., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
        Interstices, Caiia-Star, Port Eliot House, St.Germans, England.
        Chicago Artist International, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
1997
        Arts at the Turn of the Century, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
        Organized by: Kerry-James Marshall

International Art Fairs

2009   
        Scope New York, Cheap, Fast and Out of Control, New York, NY.
2008
        Scope Miami, Magnet Gallery, Miami, FL.
        Scope London, [PAM] Screening, New York, NY.
        Scope Basel, [PAM], The Future Was Then, June 3-8, Basel, Switzerland.
        CIRCA Puerto Rico , Video Curator with Myritza Castillo, Apr 11-14. San Juan, PR.
        Volta New York, Drift, Special Project, co-curated with Alisa Prudnikova, New York.  
        Scope New York, [PAM], The Future Was Then, March 26 - 30, New York, NY.

2007
        Scope Miami, Represented by Janet Oh Gallery,  December 6-9, 2007, Miami, FL.
        Pool Art Fair , featured artist, December 7-9, 2007, Miami Beach, FL.
        Zones International Art Fair , Video Curator, Dec 6-10, 2007, Miami, FL. 
        Scope Hamptons, Scope video curator  / [PAM],  July 14-16, 2006, Wainscott, NY.    
        Scope New York, Cinema-scope Curator / [PAM], February 22-25, 2007, New York, NY.
2006
        Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Video Lounge, A [PAM] Sample, Curated by Michael Rush, Miami Beach, Fl.
        Scope Miami, Curator at Large / [PAM] / M21,  December 6-10, 2006, Miami, FL.
        Scope London, Cinema-scope Curator / [PAM], October 12-15, 2006, London, UK.   
        Scope Hamptons, Chief Curator / [PAM],  July 14-16, 2006, Wainscott, NY.    
        Scope New York, Cinema-scope Curator / [PAM], March 10-13, 2006, New York, NY.
2005
        Scope Miami, Cinema-scope Curator,  December 6-10, 2006, Miami Beach, FL.
        Scope London, Cinema-scope Curator, October 21-25, 2005, London, UK.   
        Scope Hamptons, Cinema-scope Curator,  July 14-16, 2006, East Hampton, NY. 
        Pool Art Fair, featured artist, December 1-4, 2005, Miami Beach, FL.
        NOVA Young Art Fair, Represented by Lobby Gallery, April 28 - May 1, Chicago, IL.
2004
        Frisbee Art Fair, Joymore Gallery (Brooklyn), Miami Beach, FL.
        Photo Fair New York, WAR.ART Multiple , Broadway Gallery, New York, NY.
2002
        Scope Miami, Christine Wang Fine Art (Brooklyn), Miami, FL.
2001
        Art Miami, Magnet (NYC/Miami), Miami, FL.
        Art Chicago, Nikolai Fine Art (NYC), Chicago, IL.
        The Armory Show, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY.

Awards

2008   
        Artist in Residence, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg and Moscow.
2005
        Independent Curator Award, Scope Art Fair, 2005-2007
1996-97
         Donald Slowik Memorial Award for the Arts
1996
         Sally Dineen Award for the Arts.

Education

1989-90            
         Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH.
1990-93
         U.S. Army, 3-64 Armor Batallion, 3rd Infantry Division, Schwienfurt, Germany.
1993-97
         BFA - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1998-99
         University of Wales Newport, England, Research Assistant to Dr. Miroslaw Rogala, Ph.D. philosophy of interactive media

Selected Collections

         National Center For Contemporary Art, Moscow
         National Center For Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg
         Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
         Shinhan Bank, Seoul, Korea
         Artist Space, New York, NY.
         Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
         The New York Public Library, New York, NY
         The Joan Flasch Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
         National Archives, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA.
         Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
         Marie Kennedy, Chicago, IL.
         Nicole Dupont , New Orleans, LA.
         Britney Spears, New York, NY.

Selected Publications

GOTO Bibliography