el n.k. lee works in expanded painting to instantiate the gendered and raced body as an uneasy conflation between form and subject. Both a provocation of her own identity as a mediated selfhood, and research into painting as a site of social change, el uses and deconstructs paintings and text via attention to declension: its suspension, accumulation, and effacement. Her practice asks: Am I subject, and the painting object; is the painting subject, and I the object; does the object complete me?

Based in Chicago, IL; Born 1996, Los Angeles
MFA, University of Chicago

Language is flesh because it is borne from flesh… the body is forever of it.
                                                                                                   - Pope.L