Megan Mi-Ai Lee’s work considers the nuances of persuasion and municipal intimacies through sculpture, video, drawing, photography, and text. Her work often examines the space around objects and the mechanisms built into experiences of the metropolis. The active spaces she creates form new narratives shaped by our experiences of objects and each other. By toying with isolated existing forms and their relationship in space, a row of lights in a corridor can have a second life as a string of pearls; the roadside sign for the New York, New York Hotel and Casino can be reproduced in its namesake city, revealing itself to be an amalgamation of New York symbols. Though the subjects range from moments of hyperlocal municipal intimacy to national transplantations of specific objects, her practice finds continuity in the desire to encourage a playful suspicion of familiar narratives of the everyday. 

Megan Mi-Ai Lee was a Public Art Curatorial Fellow and Assistant Educator at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City from 2018-2020, and has participated in residencies at the Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI and the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2018 where she was the recipient of the Michael S. Vivo Award for excellence in Drawing and the Rothenburg Travel Fellowship.