Yi Hsuan Lai is a Taiwanese-born, New York–based visual artist whose practice merges photography, sculpture, found objects, and her own body. She creates staged, surreal assemblages that blur the boundaries between object and image, body and environment, surface and depth.
Through this oscillation between two and three dimensions, Lai explores the intersection of objecthood, bodily projection, and psychological states. Her work engages themes of adaptation, uncertainty, and femininity, bridging the material and corporeal realms.
ABOUT YI HSUAN LAI
Yi Hsuan Lai (b. 1988, Taiwan) is a lens-based artist who incorporates handmade sculptures, found materials, and her body for staged photography in two and three dimensions, exploring themes of adaptation, uncertainty, and femininity. She has received residency fellowships from Light Work (2024) and Vermont Studio Center (2023), and participated in the NYFA immigration program in 2023. Her solo exhibitions include NARS Foundation (2024), Gallery 456 (2024), and Spring Break Art Show (2020), with group exhibitions at Photo London (2023), Floor_Gallery (2023), Wassaic Project (2022), and Well Well Project (2022). Lai's work was recognized among LensCulture's Critics' “Top 10 Choices” in 2022.
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