Maia Ruth Lee
Maia Ruth Lee (b. 1983, Busan, South Korea) is a visual artist whose practice spans photography, video, painting, and sculpture. Lee’s work explores language as a mechanism that can shape and give account to experiences, memories, and emotions. Her work also investigates lives shaped by precarity and a state of un-rootedness—maps, atlases, and banners be- come a device that calls to mind their life of movement, and often, loss. Using translation as an apparatus, Lee transmutes her works between mediums, connecting themes of borders, community, and language, with embodiments of carriers and self-preservation through process and materials. She has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Den- ver, Tina Kim Gallery, and François Ghebaly Gallery. Lee has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the Aspen Art Museum, 2019 Whitney Biennial and Whitney Museum of American Art.
