FRIENDS & FAMILY
Tidawhitney Lek
B. 1992 Live and works in Los Angeles
SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 Long Beach Museum of Art (upcoming)
- 2022 Household, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles Fences, The Armory Show, Sow & Tailor, New York, NY My Walk, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
- 2021 Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK Luna Anais Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019 Pow Wow Long Beach, Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, CA
- 2017 South Gallery Art Expo, Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, CA Doodles in Space (two-person collaborative), Marilyn Werby Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, CA Far Bazarr (two-person collaborative), Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA Solo Show with Tidawhitney Lek, Midnight Gallery, Long Beach
- 2016 Disposable Thoughts (two- person collaborative), Marilyn Werby Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, CA, Phenomenon of the Double, Marilyn Werby Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 Friends & Family ‘23, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA Felix Art Fair Los Angeles, Sow & Tailor (upcoming)
- 2022 Sow & Tailor Presents Hot Concrete: LA to HK, K11 Musea, Hong Kong
- 2021 Hot Concrete, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA
- 2020 Home, Great Park Gallery, Palm Courts Arts Complex, Irvine, CA Emergence, Port City Creative Guild, Long Beach Community Hospital, Long Beach, CA Synthesis, Emerging Leaders in the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
- 2019 Paritita II Fundraiser, Durden and Ray, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA Layered Lenses, GP3 Institute, Irvine, CA Fence, Leiminspace, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA (1+2) = TAM Forum, Amax Gallery, Little Tokyo Art Complex, Los Angeles, CA PowWowLongBeach, Hi-Lo Gallery, Long Beach Post, Long Beach, CA Ganas De Existir, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA Other Place Art Fair, The Barker Hangrrr, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA We Choose Art: Feminisit Perspective, The Montalban Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA All Stars, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA
- 2018 Art For OUR Sake, Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA The Sewing Circle (Feminine Narratives), Seaver Gallery, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA Quince Night II: A Womxn’s Empowerment Benefit Event, Plaza De La Raza, Los Angeles, CA Exhibit LA, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA Open Studio-Pop Up, Los Angeles, CA Ganas, FA Collective, Angel City Brewery in partnership with Artshare, Los Angeles, CA Mindscape, Flatline Studio, Long Beach CA Painting the Night, Midnight Gallery, Long Beach, CA
- 2017 Midnight Gallery, Long Beach, CA Student Printmaking Exhibition, Dutzi Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, CA President’s Home: Miller House, Cal State University of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
- 2016 Midnight Gallery, Long Beach, CA Partners in Crime Complices, Long Beach, CA Senior Student Exhibition, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China Artful Healing, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA FA4 Collective VS Everybody 2.0, Iguana Kelly’s, Long Beach, CA
- 2015 (CALB) Cultural Alliance of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA All Media, Irvine Art Center, Irvine, CA Art Expo, Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, Ca Insight, CSULB University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Art Expo, Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, CA
- 2014 Insight, CSULB University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA The Grime, Max L. Gatov Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
- 2020 Finalist for Department of Cultural Affairs Public Arts Commission: LAX Airport Police Facility, Los Angeles, CA
- 2016 Richard and Johanna Baker Endowed Scholarship ASI Scholarship Yale Norfolk Nominee
- 2015 Fine Arts Affiliates Scholarship Yale Norfolk Nominee
- 2014 Dewitt Foundation Residency NYC Linda Day Scholarship
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS
- Columbus Museum of Art ICA Miami Perez Art Museum Miami
EDUCATION
- 2017 Undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cal State University of Long Beach, CA
- 2016 Study Abroad Program, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China