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Beau Bree Rhee

American, born 1985

BiographyBeau Rhee is a Designer & Artist. Her work stems from choreographic, gestural, and ritual ideas that are expressed in colorist and geometric themes in various media. Rhee received her M.F.A. at the Haute école d’art et de design de Genève (University of Art & Design Geneva) Visual & Applied Arts, 2010-12. Since 2014, she has been the Director of Atelier de Geste, where she leads all design, production, and exhibitions. She has guest lectured at the Swiss Master Symposium for the Arts, Parsons School of Design and the ICP/Bard MFA program. Her pieces have been collected for private collections.

At the M.F.A. program in Geneva, she learned hands-on techniques in the ateliers (wood, metal, fabric, graphic), and she studied under the tutelage of critic Christophe Kihm, designer Markus Miessen and artist Laurent Schmid. She graduated from Columbia University, Barnard College cum laude & with distinction receiving a double major in Art History & Dance in 2007. She studied dance under advisor Mary Cochran, and learned many schools of movement (Cunningham, Limon, Graham, Bill T Jones, NYCB Balanchine). She apprenticed under Bill T Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company & worked in the contemporary art & fashion industries for several years before she relocated to Geneva for her Masters studies.

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