Maia Ruth Lee works in the realms of sculpture, painting, installation, photography and video. Her works navigate through the narrative and point of view of the migrant.
Subliminal Message in Green, 2024, a new edition created for Nine Orchard’s No Shop —produced and printed by Harlan & Weaver — is a visual lexicon made and inspired by asemic writing, with a nod to the history of Chinatown’s garment industry.
Lee’s works range from taxonomies of symbols and runes inspired by the social and psychological impacts of a diasporic, colonized life and reproductions of the physical markings of lives guided by movement and transience. Lee’s multidisciplinary and conceptual approach results in dynamic and often non-representational articulations of these themes.
Born in Busan, South Korea, Lee has spent periods of her life between Kathmandu, Seoul, New York City, and Salida, Colorado, where the artist lives and works today.
