︎Contact: kehanlai@gmail.com ︎ CV
Kehan Lai is a photo-based artist who lives between New York and Shanghai. Her work straddles between the simulacrum and the authentic, transforms the mundane into the symbolic, and explores the materiality of photo prints. Her practice comprises a laborious process of information-gathering, material-assembling, and scene-building.
She is pursing a MFA degree at Bard College and received a BFA degree from Parsons School of Design. Her recent solo exhibitions include “Undulation” (EDA, Shenzhen, 2023); group exhibitions include “Being Present” (Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, 2024), “Center Annual” (Houston Center for Photography, Texas, 2023), “Art Nova 100” (Guardian Art Center, Beijing, 2023), “Unbound 11” (Candela Gallery, Richmond, 2022), and “Rea Arte” (Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, 2022). She is the finalist for Athens Photo Festival (Athens, 2024) and has completed an artist residency at Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, 2021-2022).
Kehan is also the creator behind the photography podcast Iridescener.