Artists Registry

SELECTED PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2010 “Big Screen Project”, 40x16 ft Public LED screen, Eventi Plaza at 30th st and 6th Ave (New York, NY)
2009 “Bright Nights”, large scale projection, Manhattan Bridge Centennial, (Brooklyn, NY)
“Tomorrow City Project”, video for 15 public robots, Songdo International City (Incheon, Korea)
“Piano Activities”, Public re-address of George Maciunas' 1962 performance, Bedford/5th St (Brooklyn, NY)
“Video Forest” , 96 panel HD immersive video corridor, main terminal, Kimpo Airport (Seoul, Korea)
2008 “PAM, Perpetual Art Machine”, video screening program, Product Festival (Varna, Bulgaria)
“Public Exhibition Space/AM”, 3000 posters in lower Manhattan on 911, CONFLUX (New York, NY)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video pavilion, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2007 “PAM”, architectural outdoor interactive video installation, Robodock (Amsterdam, Holland)
“Gumbo/AM”, 70 ft projection installation, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Dumbo Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
“PAM”, 3000 sf Multimedia Pavilion, Coachella Music and Arts Festival (Indio, CA)
“PAM”, interactive video installation, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2006 “PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Roberto Clemente Park (Miami, FL)
“PAM”, projection installation, Art Video Lounge, ABMB, Botanical Gardens, (Miami Beach, FL)
“PAM”, multi-channel interactive installation, Old Truman Brewery (London, UK)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Le Name Multimedia Festival (Lille, France)
1999 “ImageBomb” video projection installation, Avantgarde-Ariergarde Festival, (Insko, Poland)
1996-1999 “Various Public Murals”, Chicago Metropolitan Area, Chicago Public Art Group (Chicago, IL)

SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITS

2011 “Artists Meeting, Being and Event”, performance showcase, Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY)

“Action for Freedom”, solo exhibit, Rooster Gallery (New York, NY)

"HiArt! Changing the World Through Art”, Auction, Haunch of Venison, (New York, NY)
"New Videos" solo exhibit, Paida-Am Dobben 36 (Bremen, Germany)
"CON$PIRACY", Galeria NT (Lodz, Poland)
2010 “Happiness Workshop”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
"Transient Limits and Shifting Boundaries", Mediations Biennial, ConcentArt e.V. (Berlin, Germany)
2009 “Cyland CyberFest” The State Hemitage Museum (St. Petersburg, RU)
“Metropolis“, solo exhibit, Atrium Gallery, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
“Anonymous“, Envoy Gallery (New York, NY)
“Artists Meeting YTTP, Weirder the Better”, Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY)
2008 “In Transition“, National Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
“In Transition“, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
“The Mirror Stage”, NEME/ Lanitis Foundation (Limassol, Cyprus)
“Video Synthesis”, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York (New York, NY)
“DADADA“, galerija10m2 (Saravejo) / Hammam Cejvan Cehaja (Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina)


2007 “Emergency Room“, PS1/MoMA (New York, NY)
“We Are Your Future”, 2nd. Moscow Biennial (Moscow, RU)
“Video As Urban Condition”, Lentos Kunstmuseum / Museum of Modern Art (Linz, Austria)
“Video Art In the Age of the Internet“, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)
“1800 Frames”, Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ)
“WRO07”, XII International Media Art Biennale (Warsaw, Poland)
2006 “TransVoyeur”, Liverpool Biennial Independents (Liverpool, England)
“COUP“, WeissPollack Gallery (New York, NY)
2005 “Isola Della Poesia“, 51st La Biennale Di Venezia, San Secondo Island (Venice, Italy)
“Faces of the Fallen“, Women in Service Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, VA)
2004 “American Trend“, solo exhibit, The Lab Gallery (New York, NY)
“American Trend”, solo exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art/MOCADC (Washington, D.C.)
“Machines of Power…“, solo exhibit, Lobby Gallery (Chicago, IL)
“Multiple Strategies“, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH)
“Obiettivo Pax“, Museo Storico della Fanteria (Rome, Italy)
2003 “Libertá in immagini e parole“, MART - Museo d'arte e Contemporanea (Roverto, Italy)
“Darlings Star”, Museum of Contemporary Art/MOCADC (Washington, D.C.)
2002 “Once Upon A Time Today”, solo exhibit, Austin Modern (Austin, TX)“
Prevailing Human Spirit“, Museum of American Illustration (New York, NY)
“Reactions“, Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA)
2001 “Reactions“, Exit Art (New York, NY)
“Minute“, Artist Space (New York, NY)
2000 “Meta-Neo, New Works”, solo exhibit, IFAC (Chicago, IL)
1998 “Chicago Artists 1998”, Gallery 312 (Chicago, IL)
“Virtual Graffiti“, Maison Francaise-French Cultural Centre (Nairobi, Kenya)
“Point Project“, Kunstakademiet (Trondheim, Norway)
1997 “The Dome Room”, solo exhibit, Chicago Arts Invitational (Chicago, IL)
“Performance Anxiety“, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL)
“Virtual Graffiti“, Heart Galerie (Paris, France)
1996, “US vs Them”, solo exhibit, IFAC (Chicago, IL)

Selected Collections: National Center For Contemporary Art, Moscow / National Center For Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg / HanaBank, Seoul, Korea / Shinhan Bank, Seoul, Korea / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN / New York Public Library, New York, NY / The Joan Flasch Collection, Chicago, IL / U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA / Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. / Artists Space, New York, NY / Ms. Maire Kennedy, Chicago, IL / Ms. Nicole Dupont, Naples, FL. / Ms. Britney Spears, Los Angeles, CA / Ms. Alisa Prudnikova, Ekaterinburg, Russia / Mr. Enrique Liberman, New York, NY. / Ms. Lillian Heidelberg, New York, NY. / Mr. Michael Shvo, Watermill, NY. / Mr. Carlton DeWoody, New York, NY. / Ms. Amy Cappellazzo , New York, NY.

Symposiums / Lectures / Workshops
2009, visiting artist, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Open Video Conference, presentation, New York University, School of Law (New York, NY)
Walking a Fine Line – perspectives on Russian video art, lecture, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
The Russians are Here, panel discussion moderator, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2008, New media art lecture, Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography (Moscow, RU)
Visiting lecturer, Oct-Nov, Ural State University, Department of Cultural Studies (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux, presentation, NCCA/USU (Eburg, RU)
Supermodern, presentation, Creative Time, Democracy in America, Park Avenue Armory (New York, NY)
visiting artist, Central Florida University (Orlando, FL)
2007, Teleculture, artist talk and panel discussion, Pace University (New York, NY)
1800 Frames/take3, artist talk, Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ)
Video Art In the Age of the Internet, roundtable discussion, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)
2006, ABMB Art Salon, roundtable discussion, Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami Beach, FL)
Birth of a 21st Century Video Archive, presentation and discussion, Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia)
Steve.museum Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
1998, visiting artist, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Fine Arts (Pittsburgh, PA)
Interstices, Caiia-Star Symposium, Port Eliot House (St.Germans, England)
Chicago Artist International, artist talk, Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, IL)
1997, Arts at the Turn of the Century, presentation, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Awards
2008 Artist in Residence, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russia
2005 Independent Curator Award, Scope Art Fair, 2005-2007
1996 Donald Slowik Memorial Award for the Arts, 1996-1997
1996 Sally Dineen Award for the Arts.

Education
1990 Columbus College of Art and Design, foundation program (Columbus, OH)
1993 U.S. Army, 3-64 Armor Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Honorable Discharge (Schweinfurt, Germany)
1997 BFA - University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
1998 University of Wales, Assistant to Dr. Miroslaw Rogala, Ph.D (Newport, England / Chicago, IL)

Selected Bibliography
“Heroes, Victims, and Martyrs: Lee Wells’ Action for Freedom”, by Jan Castro, Flavorpill, Mar 7, 2011
“Lee Wells and the Blowback of Empire Porn”, by Steve Kaplan, Post.thing.net - Miami Art Exchange, Feb 22, 2011
"Action for Freedom, New Works by Lee Wells" exhibition catalog, Rooster Gallery, March 2011
"Andy, Nam June, and Me at the Zoo", Guggenheim Museum Essay Commission, November 2010
"Verbatim History of HD Video" Interview, with Terry Flaxton, June 2010
"Featured Artist", Interview, The Art Trade, Spring 2010
”Isabella Rossellini to judge video contest”, by Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, Oct, 16, 2009
“Scoping Out the Scope Art Fair”, by Carol Lee, Paper Magazine, March 2009
"Drift/Дрейф", by Max Seddon, Artchronika, December 2008
“Art was a coward”, by Irina Kulik, Kommersant, November 14, 2008
“PREDICTATE, participate & perpetuate”, Interview by Colette Copeland, Afterimage Magazine, Nov 2008
“In Transition Russia 2008”, by Helene Black and Alisa Prudnikova, NCCA and NeMe, (cat.) October 2008
“Video Synthesis”, by Ryan Seslow, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York (cat.) May 2008
“Edition #23: Perpetual Art Machine (PAM)”, Interview by Daniel Durning, WPS1 Art Radio, April 2008
“Art Invasion at Coachella”, by Vanessa Franko, The Press-Enterprise / PE.com, February 5, 2008
“You Cant Stay Here PAM!” Interview by Eliza Fernbach, Furtherfield.org, December 2007
“Issue 59: Time Based Art / Video Art”, by Paul Laster, ArtKrush, May 30-June 12, 2007 
“Perpetual Art Machine”, by Mark McBride, American Library Association, April 2007
“Art Fairs Take Manhattan”, by Leigh Anne Miller, Art in America, April, 2007
“PAM 1st anniversary, VTV Interviews Lee Wells”, by Theodore Bouloukos, Vernissage TV, March 14, 2007
“Rush Interactive”, by Michael Rush, WPS1 Art Radio, Dec 9, 2006
“Perpetual Art Machine: DIY show”, by Mark Clintberg, Art Newspaper, December 8, 2006
“Issue 155: high-bidding flavour”, by Kieran Wyatt, Flavorpill London, October 10-16, 2006
“The Source of Global Video Art”, by Jakov Kosanović, Slobodna Dalmacija, Sept. 30, 2006
“Perpetual Art Machine, Lee Wells”, Interview by Leah Oates, NY Arts Magazine, Sept 2006
“Scope Hampered?”, by Ban Davis, ArtNet Magazine, July 19, 2006
“Issue 318: anachronistic flavor”, by Jake Lancaster, Flavorpill NYC, July 11-17, 2006
“The Spectacle of Today”, by Candice Madey, NY Arts Magazine, June 8, 2006
“Front Page”, by Constance Wyndham, Art in America, May 2006
“Weekend Update”, by Walter Robinson, ArtNet Magazine, February 2006
“Scene & Herd, Fair Game”, by Michael Wang, Art Forum, February 2006
“Lee Wells of PAM”, Interview by Heinrich Schmidt, Vernissage TV, February 2006
“L'Isola dei Poeti”, by Laura Larcan, La Repubblica, June 7, 2005
“Portraits Etched in Grief” by Libby Copeland, The Washington Post, March 23, 2005
“At Arlington, a New Gallery of the Departed”, by Neela Banerjee, New York Times, March 23, 2005
“CULTURE/Call to arts”, by Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Miami Herald, October 29, 2004
“War.Art”, by Tina La Porta, New York Arts Magazine, September 15, 2004
“Critics Pick, Machines of Power”, by Fred Camper, The Chicago Reader, August 28, 2004
“ImageBomb, Obiettivo Pax”, Giovanna Minnucci (cat.) March 19, 2004
“FLUXLIST and SILENCE”, by Alison, Hannah, and Jessica Higgins, (booklet), December 26, 1998
“What's a FORPNEP?”, by Victor Cassidy, ArtNet Magazine, September 16, 1997
“Shooting Gallery”, by Mark Swartz, The Chicago Reader, June 19, 1996

Selected Curitorial Projects, Installations and Screenings
2010 “Erased Walls, Mediations Biennial, 2 channel group video installation, ConsentArt, (Berlin, Germany)
“A Light at the End of the Tunnel”, video screening program, Kaserne Basel, Scope (Basel, Switzerland)
2009 “Metropolis Art Prize”, panelist, CNN, Fox and MTV Jumbotrons, Babelgum.com, Time Square (New York, NY)
"Zeitgeist", video curator / panelist, United Creators Award (New York, Istanbul, Frankfurt)
"Social Soup" projection screening program, Elizabeth Foundation (New York, NY)
"A-list Cannibal Cage-Match/AM", Youtube performance installation, Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY)
"The Russians Are Here", video screening series with NCAA/Winzavod, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"A Stranger in a Strange Land", projection screening program, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"Power in Numbers", video screening program, Wyndham Garden Hotel (New York, NY)
2008 "ДРЕЙФ/DRIFT, multi-media video exhibition, National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, RU)
"ДРЕЙФ/DRIFT, multi-media exhibition, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Art (Ekaterinburg, RU)
"Perpetual Art Machine", projection screening program, Product Contemporary (Varna, Bulgaria)
"Supermodern", public HD video installation, Lords Cricket Grounds, Scope (London, UK)
"Mad As Hell, Commercials For the End of TIme" online video exhibition, Youtube.com (Internet)
"Perpetual Art Machine", interactive video installation, Utsikten Kunstsenter (Utsiken, Norway)
"Regurgitating Histories", interactive video installation and screening program, Scope (Basel, Switzerland)
"Perpetual Art Machine", interactive video installation, Hanes Art Gallery, (Winston-Salem, NC)
"Perpetual Art Machine", interactive video installation, Second Nature (Aix-en-Provence, France)
"ДРЕЙФDRIFT", video screening program, with Alisa Prudnikova, Volta, 7 W 34th St. ( New York, NY)
"The Future Was Then...so now what?", interactive video installation, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"Perpetual Art Machine", interactive video installation, Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milan, IT)
"The Rising Tide Film", immersive projection screening, New York premiere, Monkeytown (Brooklyn, NY)
"Perpetual Art Machine", interactive video installation, MOV-iN Gallery, CSF (Santa Fe, NM)
2007 "Teleculture", multi-media gallery exhibition, Pace Digital Gallery, Pace University (New York, NY)
"1800 Frames / Take 3", video screening program, Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ)
"Video Art In the Age of the Internet",  multi-media exhibition, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)
"1st Youtube Open Mic", immersive projection installation with Youtube.com, Monkeytown (Brooklyn, NY) 
"Perpetual Art Machine", WRO-XII Media Art Biennale, National Museum Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) 
"We are your Future", Video Box exhibition program, Whitebox (New York, NY)
"Untitled Video Program #1", media arts exhibition, East Hampton Studios (Wainscott, NY)
"Entre la Piedra y la Flor", video screening program, Circa / SJ Convention Center (San Juan, PR)
"We Are Your Future", video screening program, 2nd Moscow Biennial, Winzavod (Moscow, RU) 
"Video Art Urban Condition", projection screening program, Lentos Kunstmsueum (Linz, Austria)
"1800 Frames / Take 3", projection screening program, with Mica Scalin, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"Perpetual Art Machine", interactive video installation, Lincoln Center, (New York, NY)
2006 "1800 Frames / Take 3", gallery exhibition, with Mica Scalin, City Without Walls (Newark, NJ)
"COUP" gallery exhibition, co-curated with Cadice Madey, WeissPollack Gallery (New York, NY)
"Video Box", projection screening program, project room, WeissPollack Gallery (New York, NY)
"Perpetual Art Machine", multichannel interactive video installation, Roberto Clemente Park (Miami, FL)
"Rules of Engagement" chief-curated video art screening series, Roberto Clemente Park (Miami, FL)
"My World is More Fucked up than Your World" screening program, Roberto Clemente Park (Miami, FL)
"Guerrilla Media Vehicle v2.0" mobile 18 ft audio/video projection truck, (Miami / Miami Beach FL)
"Helios Oceanus", environmental projection installations, M21 / Gansevort South (Miami Beach, FL)

2006 cont. "Perpetual Art Machine", interactive video installation, Old Truman Brewery (London, UK)
"Transvoyeur" research project and gallery exhibition, Liverpool Biennial Independents (Liverpool, UK)
"Future Perfect", chief curator of large scale multi-media exhibition, East Hampton Studios, (Wainscott, NY)
“Cinema-Scope", multi-media media exhibition including New Museum/Rhizome, Scope (New York, NY)
2005 "The Momentarily Seduction of Now", public screening program, Townhouse (Miami Beach, FL)
"Guerrilla Media Vehicle v1.0" mobile 18 ft audio/video projection truck, (Miami / Miami Beach FL)
"Tomorrow Was the Day Before" interactive video installation, St Martins Lane (London, England)
"That Uncomfortable Place Between…", video screening program, Hampton Hall (Southampton, NY)
2004 "High Art Perspectives", gallery exhibition, with Nicole Dupont, Ashmore Gallery (Miami Beach, FL)
"Art of Politics", gallery exhibition, with Nicole Dupont, Ashmore Gallery (Miami Beach, FL)
”Active Duty, Armed Artists of America”, gallery exhibition / performance series, Studio 84 (Brooklyn, NY)
1999 "EXE Digital Media Spectacle", 70,000 sf multi-media festival, Manufacturers Bank, (Chicago, IL)
Affiliations
Perpetual Art Machine / PAM, co-founder, online portal, installation and curatorial program, 2005-present
Artist Meeting Arts Collective, international conceptual art collective based in New York, 2006-present
Scope Art Show, curator at large, international art fair based in New York, 2005-2010
IFAC-Arts - director, nomadic contemporary curitorial art project based in Brooklyn, 2000-present 
IFAC / IF Gallery - co-founder, exhibition and performance gallery based in Chicago, 1996-2000
Additional information
Profile / Bio - http://independent.academia.edu/LeeWells

Andy, Nam June and Me at the Zoo - 2010 - Essay Commission
Guggenheim Museum - as part of the Play Biennial of Creative Video
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play/th…

Interview with Terry Flaxton - June 4, 2010 - New York City
Considering a Virbatum History of High Definition Technologies and Aesthetics
http://www.flaxton.btinternet.co.uk/leewells.htm

Paper - Supermodern - Nothing is what it seems - 2008
Published by the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
http://independent.academia.edu/LeeWells/Papers/128743/Supermodern--Not…

Video - Democracy in America - Creative Time - 2008 - New York City
Supermodern - Nothing is what it seems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVTXbkx-WoA

In conversation about PAM with Michael Rush and John Hanhardt at Art Basel Miami Beach 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=visqhoGE0CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Verzid33AzA