b. 1992, United States
Tidawhitney Lek is a Cambodian-American painter. Her work plays with narrative and the Asian experiences of first-generation Americans. These bright and sombre paintings present nuances of domesticity, figures and hands interacting in composition as culture and Southeast-Asian elements echo through mundane objects found from places like the home. She reinvents the traditional and conventional mediums like pastel, acrylic and oil paints on canvas, interchanging textures as pictorial spaces recede and soften.