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RAINA LEE
Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
BA Sociology - University of California, Davis, California
MA Media and Film Studies - The New School for Social Research, New York
2017-20 Ceramics, Glendale Community College, California
EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 Cartes Postales - solo exhibition, Stroll Garden, Los Angeles, California
2022 Haptic Memory - two-person exhibition, Stroll Garden at Maison Kitsune Brooklyn
2022 Homeworld - solo exhibition, Stroll Garden, Los Angeles, California
2022 Blow Up - solo exhibition, Niche Gallery, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dia De Los Muertos, Arvia Projects and DDLA, Los Angeles, California
2024 Heads We’re Dancing, Alto Beta, Altadena, California
2024 Laisun Keane, “Calibration,” Boston
2024 Pulped Residency: Experimental Paper Sculpture, Los Angeles
2024 Rhett Baruch Gallery, “Smokey Trails”, Los Angeles
2023 Cup Show II, Space XYZ, Hawthorne, California
2023 Object & Thing, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, New. York
2023 Verso, Bridgehampton, New York
2023 Imaginary Places, Nucleus Gallery, Portland, Oregan
2023 Tea Ahorita - Studio Ima x Casa Ahorita, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Cure, Art Salon Chinatown, Los Angeles, California
2022 Vessel, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles California
RESIDENCIES
2023 Akeno Clay Residency, Yamanashi, Japan
2023 Experimental Clay Residency, Expressive Computation Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara
2022 Salmon Creek Farm, Albion, California
2022 Watershed Ceramics, Newcastle, Maine
SELECTED PRESS
2024 Los Angeles Times - “From her tree-house studio to high-end galleries, this L.A. potter’s work is turning heads”
2022 Surface Magazine - “Designer of the Day: Raina Lee”
2022 Artforum - Homeworld at Stroll Garden “Must See”
2021 Faculty Department - “Raina Lee, Artist & Writer”
2021 Luxe Magazine - “Enter The World Of This Ceramicist Who Loves A Good Experiment”
2020 The Modern House - “Studio Visits: ceramicist Raina Lee talks through her creative process from her treehouse studio in Los Angeles”
2020 Spectrum News 1 - “Ceramist Turns Backyard Treehouse Into Art Gallery”
2019 T Magazine, New York Times - “ How A Ceramist Transformed a Los Angeles Treehouse”