Chae Eun Rhee obtained a BFA and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA, 2007). She has participated in several international residency programs, including: Rijksakademie (guest resident, Netherlands, 2020), Yaddo Artist Residency (USA, 2016), Vermont Studio Center (USA, 2015), Incheon Art Platform (Korea, 2018). Chae Eun was a fellowship recipient of the Milton Avery Foundation in the USA (2015), the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, Korea (2019), and the Arts Council Korea (2015, 2016, 2020). Most recently, she was awarded a two-year Art Creation Grant (2020–2021) by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
Her work is in the collections of Central Museum Utrecht (upcoming September 2021), Museum de Fundatie(Netherlands), Robert and Renee Drake, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Art Bank(Korea).
In her painting, A Song for the Unseen (2020), Chae Eun loads an array of images onto a large canvas and scrutinizes them in the light of today. She mainly uses the medium of painting as a means to critique the hypocritical aspects of the cultural environment on both a social and a personal level. She is interested in appropriating images culled from social media and art history and combining them into satirical scenes that look like surreal collages. Her large-scale oil paintings not only address issues by parodying references, but also by echoing the issues we face today. This way, Chae Eun tries to open up well-known stories and visions of our current world and give them a new meaning and a new life.
Recently, Chae Eun Rhee had worked on show at EENWERK(Netherlands, 2020), the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. (USA, 2018), the Incheon Art Platform (2018), the SongEun ArtSpace (2019), the SongEun ArtCube (2019), GalleryMEME (2019) and Chapter II (2021) in Korea.
She is currently participating at SeMA Nanji residency program in Seoul, S. Korea till the end of January 2022. And her upcoming solo show will be held in Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands in September of 2021.