Nikki S. Lee is a Korean-born, New York City-based artist and filmmaker, born in 1970. After earning B.F.A. at Chung-Ang University in South Korea in 1993, she moved to New York in 1994 and attended the Fashion Institute of Technology. She earned her M.A. in photography at New York University in 1998.
In 1999 Lee's first one-person exhibition took place at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, which was her exclusive representative from 1998 through the fall of 2007.
Lee's most noted work, Projects (1997-2001), begun while still in school, depicts her in snapshot photographs, in which she poses with various ethnic and social groups, including drag queens, punks, swing dancers, senior citizens, Latinos, hip-hop musicians and fans, skateboarders, lesbians, young urban professionals, and Korean schoolgirls. Lee conceives of her work as less about creating beautiful pictures, and more about investigating notions of identity and the uses of vernacular photography.

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