Education
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2000 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Master of Fine Arts, emphasis in Photography
1998 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Photography Department
1997 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Photography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Unison, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Unison, Bolt Project Space, Chicago Artists Collation, Chicago, IL
2014 Latent Heat, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Æther, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Ex Post Facto, Witzenhausen Gallery Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 Ex Post Facto Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2006 My Idol, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Poo-Chi, Cornelius Pleser Galerie, Munich, Germany
Poo-Chi, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 89th Processional Members Show, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 More Pink Noise: Works by The Stella Photo Collective, Var West Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Portals, Curated by Elliot Reichert, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Placed Out Time, Setouchi Triennale, Kagawa, Japan
The Body Is Work, Curated by Elliot Reichert, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2018 Late August, Early September, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Truth Claim, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
How Many Miles to Babylon? Miyako Yoshigana Gallery, New York, NY
Pink Noise: Works by the Stella Collective, The Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Wa-Jin, Japan Information Center, Chicago, IL
Seeing Through the Garden, Sensyu-Izutsuyashiki, Higashikagawa, Takamatsu, Japan
2016 Preview 6: We've Met Before, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Within the Portfolios, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL
2014 Nocturnal Labyrinth, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Living Culture, Japanese American Service Committee, Chicago, IL
2011 Till All Is Green, Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, New York, NY
Staged Photography, Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy
Sexy, 16th Annual Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
Sexier, Zhou B Center, Chicago, IL (Curated by Larry Lee)
2009 The Shasin-ka Slide Show, NAKANAKA: Japanese Arts and Culture Series, Drom, New York, NY
Womanliness, Galleria PaciArte, Brescia, Italy
2008 Focus: Midwest, Midwest Museum of Contemporary Art, Carmel, IN
2007 Thinking the Multiple, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
This Is Not A Self Portrait, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
PHOTOARTE, Brescia Italy
Free Rein/Full Play – New Chicago Photographer, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Bangkok International Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2006 A Travel on the Contemporary Photography, Galleria PaciArte, Brescia, Italy (Catalog)
The Distant Mirror, M.Y.Art Prospects, New York, NY
Festival of Love: Video Series, Asia Society, New York, NY
2005 Gimme Some of That: Appropriating Feminist Strategies, 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, Chicago, IL (Catalog)
Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2004 She-Snap, Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
FOTOAMERICA 2004, Santiago, Chile (Catalog)
Re:Source, Art In General, New York , NY
Relating to Photography, Fotographie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 Occurrences, The Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalog)
Tanqueray No. ten Night Life Chicago, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
2002 No Live Girls, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, New York
Peep Show 28/No Live Girls , The Lusty Lady, Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA
Interrogating Diversity, The Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Media Impossible, Ssamzie Space, Soul, Korea (Catalog)
Hidden, Center for Asian Arts and Media, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2000 Summer Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Uncut Special Edition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Exchange Video Screenings, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London,
England; School of Multimedia Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1999 Yellow/Face, Pilsen East Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalog)
1998 Scope 3, Artists Space, New York, NY
Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation,
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019, 2018, 2017 Individual Artist Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Chicago, IL
2019, 2018, 2017, 2013, 2007 Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2018-2019 HATCH Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago IL
2016-2017 Chicago Artist Coalition Bolt Residency, Chicago, IL
2013, 2007 Catwalk Institute, Catskill, NY
2013, 2007 Faculty Enrichment Grant, SAIC
2009 AIR Artist-in-Residence Krems, Krems, Austria
2005 Roger Brown House Residency at New Buffalo, Michigan, SAIC
2003 Skowhegan Fellowship
2002 Photo-Eye Awards “Best Figure Study and Nude Book” for monograph Poo-Chi
2001 Artists Fellowship Grant, Illinois Art Council
2000 Bruce Goodman Memorial Fellowship
1999 Honorable Mention, Professional Development Fellowship for Artists and Art Historians, College Art Association
1998 T.C. Colley Award, Rhode Island School of Design
MONOGRAPHS
Ex Post Facto (hardcover), One Picture Book #55, Nazraeli Press, 2009
Poo-Chi (hardcover), essay by Joanna Frueh, Nazraeli Press, 2002
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2019 Amanda Calobrisi, “Liberating the flower from the frame: A conversation with Mayumi Lake” ADF Web Magazine, September 26
Robin Dluzen, The Body is Work exhibition review, Visual Art Source, April 29
2018 Lindsay Hutchens, Post-Truth and Proud of It: A Review of “Truth Claim” at Carrie Secrist Gallery, NEW CITY, July 30th
2017 Jonathan Blaustein, The Best Work I Saw at the Filter Festival: Part 2, project review, aPhotoEditor.com
2016 Mayumi Lake, Noovo Editions, Online Monograph, Noovoeditions.com
2014 Dr. Marquard Smith, The Erotic Doll, Yale University Press
2011 Pamela Pianezza, Visa for Elsewhere, MUZE, Oct-Dec 2012 Number 65, Bayard Editions, France, pg 32-39
2010 Yvette Duran, Mayumi Lake – Æther, exhibition review, Threeminds.com
I Love Sex, Fanzine 10 x 15, Madrid, Spain
2008 Clayton Maxwell, Artist interview on Ex Post Facto, Eyemazing, Fall 2008 issue
2007 Jill Conner, Anime and Role-Play: Bubble gum Crisis, Whitewall issue6 (Summer), p.132-137
2006 Walter Robinson, Photo New York, Artnet Magazine, October 11
R.C. Baker, Best in Show, exhibition review, the Village Voice, June 7-13, p.83
Sex in the First Person, the Village Voice, February 8-14 issue, p.126-127
2005 Dr. Katrien Jacobs, Libi_Doc:Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art, p136-141, Masca
Jessica Kraft, exhibition review, Contemporary Magazine, issue 75, p.67
Reiko Tomii, exhibition review, Art Asia and Pacific, Fall issue, p.84
Gimme Some of That Exhibition catalog
2004 FOTOAMERICA 2004 Exhibition catalog
2003 Poo-Chi, with an essay by Joanna Frueh, European Photography, issue 73/74, p.44-49
Unfolding – a Group Essay , NY Arts, January
Joanna Frueh, Passion Pink and Heroes, Rhizomes.net, issue #7
2002 Joanna Frueh, The Pink of Revolution, n. paradoxa, volume 10, KT Press, p.27-35
Lamaretta Simmons, To See an Illusion, F Newsmagazine, SAIC, November
A Very Large Array, 2002 Photo-eye Awards brochure, Photo-eye
1999 Elane Ng, Yellow Face Show Exhibition catalog
COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, Huston, Texas
Facebook, Chicago IL,
The Museum of Sex, New York, NY
Joane Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL
Asia Society, New York, NY
Joy of Giving Something foundation, New York, NY
Video Art World, Barcelona, Spain
Randolfo Rocha Collection, Belo Horizonte, M.G. Brazil
Tanqueray collection, New York, NY