Raina Lee is a second generation Taiwanese-American artist working in sculpture and ceramic installation. She is known for her experimental glazes and painterly applications of glaze. In her current practice, she combines sculpture and ceramic glaze as a new language of painting. She revisits significant moments in art history through the lens of her personal encounters with art works, memory, and place. Her work explores ways non-Western cultures and art practices have influenced the Western art canon. She is interested in tracing Asian diaspora, displacement, and the erosion of time through a material practice.

Raina began in clay making functional ceramics at a pottery studio in Brooklyn, and has gone on to master glaze chemistry as well as studying material processes, from weaving, basketry, glass casting, raku, and 3-D clay printing. For most of her career she has worked as a writer, author of Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Ultimate Guide To Karaoke Domination (Chronicle Books) and feminist video game critic and print zine publisher of 1-Up MegaZine in the mid 2000s, which was sold worldwide and established a cult following.

Raina grew up between Taiwan and her parent’s pizzaria in Torrance, California. Her work is in the collections of the Harvard Art Museum and will be part of an exhibition in 2026 about Chinese art and material culture. She has been featured in publications worldwide, including The New York Times: T Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Surface Magazine, Hyperallergic, and MilK Decoration. She graduated with a Bachelor’s from the University of California, Davis and a Master’s in Film and Media Studies from the New School, New York. She lives in Mount Washington, Los Angeles with a treehouse full of ceramics in her backyard.

Email: rainaleeshop at gmail.com
Instagram: @rainajlee