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Recent group exhibitions include Jewyo Rhii and Jihyun Jung: Dawn Breaks, The Showroom, London, UK (2017); Le Souffleur, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, 2015; DAWN BREAKS-UNKNOWN PACKAGES, Queens Museum, New York, US (2015); PARIS TRIENNALE, INTENSE PROXIMITY, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2012); TRUST, Media City Seoul, Seoul, South Korea (2010); Everyday Miracle , REDCAT, Los Angeles (2009); On The Road & Insertation, the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2008); Dream House, 10th ISTANBUL BIENNALE, Antrepo, Istanbul, Turkey (2007); The Pavilion of Korea, the 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2005); BOOM SHE BOOM, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2004).

Her other solo exhibitions include Dear My Anti-capitalist, Ursula Walbrol Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); Jewyo Rhi, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England (2014); Walls To Talk To, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Walls To Talk To, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2013); Night Studio, Artsonje Center, Seoul (2013–2014).

For this solo exhibition, Rhii occupied a studio space at the Queens Museum since November 2013. Commonly Newcomer, a sprawling sculptural installation that explores the intuitive and experiential aspects of being a newcomer. It is also an extension of a collaborative publication titled Outside the Comfort Zone (2013) by Irene Veenstra, a Dutch art historian who visited Rhii’s 2013 exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, for nine consecutive days. In Commonly Newcomer, Rhii experiments with re-materializing a textual incarnation of her previous work, while adopting and adapting it into her present life in Queens

Rhii has engaged in different exhibition activities since the 1990s. She introduced her work mainly in the form of books produced for about 5 years from 1998 onwards. In these publications, the environment of the birth of physical work was recorded and documented together with the gradual flow of time around them and the changes that subsequently occurred. She published three art books in this periods that all dealt which the way people make urgent, provisional efforts to improve their physical and mental environment. These efforts, usually her own, are revealed in humorous picture stories taking the form of photos, drawings and registrations of physical works of art.

Jewyo Rhii (Hangul: 이주요) (born 1971) is a visual artist known for her sculptural installation, video, drawing, performance, and publications. Constantly displacing herself from her native Seoul, Korea, to study and work in Western Europe and the US, Rhii has come to embrace this fluid lifestyle as an integral part of her work, in such a way that her studios have functioned as exhibition spaces, and exhibition spaces as studios. She lives and works in Seoul and New York.

Rhii was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1971. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995 from Ewha Womans University in Korea. In 1997, she received her Master of Fine Arts from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. In 2000, she received her Master of Arts from the Chelsea College of Arts in London. In 2014, she was artist in residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.