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This episode we are thrilled to welcome the inspiring artist Maia Ruth Lee.
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.
Born in Busan, South Korea, in 1983, Lee grew up in Kathmandu and Seoul, before arriving in New York City in 2011 where she spent over a decade. In 2020 she relocated to Salida, Colorado where she now lives and works.
Lee has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (CO), Tina Kim Gallery (NY), Francois Ghebaly Gallery (LA), and Jack Hanley Gallery (NY).
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Most recently, she unveiled her newly commissioned work, The Conveyor (2024), at Prospect 6 in New Orleans.
Some artists discussed in this episode:
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This episode we are thrilled to welcome the inspiring artist Maia Ruth Lee.
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.
Born in Busan, South Korea, in 1983, Lee grew up in Kathmandu and Seoul, before arriving in New York City in 2011 where she spent over a decade. In 2020 she relocated to Salida, Colorado where she now lives and works.
Lee has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (CO), Tina Kim Gallery (NY), Francois Ghebaly Gallery (LA), and Jack Hanley Gallery (NY).
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Most recently, she unveiled her newly commissioned work, The Conveyor (2024), at Prospect 6 in New Orleans.
Some artists discussed in this episode:

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