Jae Rhim Lee
- Title:
- Director of Graduate Studies and Faculty Advisor; Assistant Professor of Interaction Design
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- Coeio
Bio
Jae Rhim Lee is an award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and transdisciplinary artist whose living units and wearables reimagine basic life systems and propose alternative and occasionally transgressive relationships between the body and the built and natural environment. She is the inventor of the Infinity Burial Suit (aka Mushroom Death Suit) featured in National Geographic, Vogue, NPR, Wired, the New York Times, and TED, among others. She lectures and exhibits her work internationally and has taught at MIT and Stanford University. She is the Founder and CEO of venture-backed startup Coeio, Inc. and holds degrees from MIT and Wellesley College.
Education
BA in Psychology and the Natural Sciences from Wellesley College
MS in Visual Studies from MIT
Distinctions
Jae Rhim is a recipient of a 2009 Creative Capital Foundation Grant, a 2010 Grant from the Institut fur Raumexperimente/Universitaet der Kunste Berlin, and a 2011 MAK Schindler Scholarship and Artist Residency in Los Angeles, CA. Lee is a 2011 TED Global Fellow and a Research fellow in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology in Cambridge, MA.
