Lee Mingwei is a Taiwanese-American contemporary artist currently living and working in Paris, France and New York, USA. Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, where visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking and conversation. Lee's projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction, and take on different forms with the involvement of participants and change during the course of an exhibition. His work has been exhibited in museums worldwide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others.
Lee's mid-career survey exhibition "Lee Mingwei and His Relations" was conceived by the Mori Art Museum, and traveled to Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, with a European survey exhibition "Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts and Rituals" at Gropius Bau in 2020.