In the project, I combine the medium of photography and sculptures to create both photographic and sculptural assemblage. I use fleshy Sculpey clay to build up altered and fragmented bodies as my subjects, aiming to create a dialogue between the ambiguous nature of the objects and the space depicted in photographs- photography is the pictorial representation of mental states.
In the project, I combine the medium of photography and sculptures to create both photographic and sculptural assemblage. I use fleshy Sculpey clay to build up altered and fragmented bodies as my subjects, aiming to create a dialogue between the ambiguous nature of the objects and the space depicted in photographs- photography is the pictorial representation of mental states.
A cactus
in the Chimney
Project Description
Yi Hsuan Lai
Originally from Taiwan, Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2020 School of Visual Arts New York, NYC, NY
MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media
2014 National Yunlin University of Science & Technology Yunlin, Taiwan
MFA in Visual Communication Design
2010 Shih Hsin University Taipei, Taiwan
BFA in English
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Anonymous Town, SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC, NY
2020 Body Language, Deer Studio NYC, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Floor Gallery, A Body: Figure and Flesh, Seoul, South Korea
2021 VAE RALEIGH, "Kitsch, Camp" , Raleigh, NC
2021 un/mute exhibition in Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, NY
2021 Wassaic Project: "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now" Wassaic, NY
2021 J&M group show: "We Become Present" NYC, NY
2021 Lydia Stater NFT exhibition (online)
2020 Field Projects, "Seasonal Repression", NYC, NY
2020 NARS Foundation, "The Things in Itself", NYC, NY
2020 Carrie Able gallery group show, "LUCID", NYC, NY
2020 Here Art, "In Visible Spaces", NYC, NY
2020 SHIM Art Network, Cold Heels: Covid-19 Edition,
2019 Sugar gallery, "Break A Leg", Fayetteville, AR
2019 WONDER FOTO Day Taipei, Taiwan
2019 SVA Chelsea gallery, "Escape from, Escape to", NYC, NY
RESIDENCIES
2022 The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency North Adams, MA
2021 UN/MUTE - 10002 A Collaborative Online Residency
2020 International Residency Program, NARS Foundation Brooklyn, NY
2020 Artists In Residence, Carrie Able Gallery Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GRANTS / AWARDS
2020 Alumni Scholarship Award, SVA Alumni Society
2020 SVA Scheimpflug Award, School of Visual Arts
2018-2020 Alice Beck-Odette Scholarship, School of Visual Arts