Artists

Artists

Maia Ruth Lee

B. 1983, Busan, South Korea
Lives in Salida, Co

Venue

Ford Motor Plant

7200 N Peters St
Arabi, LA 70032

Monday–Tuesday, Closed

Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

Neighborhood

About the Artist

Maia Ruth Lee’s multidisciplinary practice is deeply informed by questions surrounding the self in times of dispersion, mobility, and rootlessness. Using translation as an apparatus, Lee transmutes her works between mediums—photography, video, painting, and sculpture—connecting themes of borders, community, and language with embodiments of carriers, loss, and self-preservation through process and materials. 

Lee received a BFA from Hongik University in Seoul and attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO; Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, NY; Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY; François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY. Lee has participated in numerous group exhibitions hosted by institutions including the Aspen Art Museum, CO; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Fotografiska Museum, NY; CANADA gallery, NY; Studio Museum 127, NY; Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy, and Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. Lee was the recipient of the Gold Art Prize in 2021 and the Rema Hort Mann grant in 2017. Her work is held in the public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Syracuse University Art Museum. 

Previous Works

Maia Ruth Lee, Obangsaek Skin, 2022.

India ink, acrylic on canvas; installation dimensions variable, painting: 31 x 915 in. Installation view of Maia Ruth Lee: Migrant Reader (July 9 - Aug 20, 2022) at François Ghebaly. Image courtesy of the artist.

Maia Ruth Lee, Dictation, 2020.

Fabric bandages on canvas. Installation view in Language of Grief (Feb 26 - Aug 22, 2021) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Image courtesy of the artist.

Maia Ruth Lee, B.B. 23-4, B.B. 23-2, B.B. 23-16, 2023.

Rope, tarp, tape, cardboard, bedding; 21 x 32 x 37 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

Maia Ruth Lee, B.B.M Cobalt 1-45, 2023.

India ink on canvas, 59 x 58 x 1 1/2 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

Maia Ruth Lee, 2023.

Installation view of Maia Ruth Lee: The skin of the earth is seamless (Apr 6 - May 6, 2023) at Tina Kim Gallery, New York. Image courtesy of the artist.