AUTUMN ASIA WEEK NEW YORK EXHIBITION
Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision
September 10 – October 24, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 6-8pm
Opening September 10, 2026, we are pleased to present Double Vision, Maia Ruth Lee’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Bringing together a new body of paintings from the artist’s Bondage Baggage series, Lee debuts new sculptural and video works interrogating migration as simultaneous perception, conditioning identity within multiple histories, temporalities, and systems of knowledge.
Lee’s exhibition takes its title from the writings of Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture. In Lee’s hands, the migrant’s double vision is the experience of simultaneously inhabiting both the place left behind and the place occupied as the condition for a complete understanding of the migrant’s life. For Lee, double vision is both a metaphor and a new way of working memory as material. Across both gallery spaces, Lee’s work expands and contracts image and sculpture, memory and record. Forms stack, unfold, mirror, and reassemble, building identity as a continuous accumulation complicating the narrative of one fixed point of origin.
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About the Gallery
Tina Kim Gallery is internationally recognized for its critically rigorous program that foregrounds Asian and Asian diasporic artists across generations and mediums. Founded in 2001 and located in Chelsea, the gallery works closely with artists, estates, and institutional partners to produce exhibitions, publications, and public programs of scholarly depth and critical resonance.
Spanning leading postwar figures to contemporary visionaries, the gallery’s program has been instrumental in advancing artists whose work engages transcultural perspectives. It has championed diasporic figures such as Pacita Abad, Kim Tschang-Yeul, and Kim Lim, alongside seminal Korean artists including Ha Chong-Hyun, Lee ShinJa, and Suki Seokyeong Kang. The gallery’s growing roster of international contemporary artists includes Mire Lee, Maia Ruth Lee, and Tania Pérez Córdova, among others. Over the course of the last 25 years, the gallery has played a formative role in elevating Korean Dansaekhwa on the global stage, building institutional and public awareness of the post-war movement’s significance and influence.
Across generations and geographies, the gallery’s program engages questions of migration, diasporic identity, history, and material culture—reflecting a sustained commitment to expanding the canons of art history, pushing the conversation beyond national frameworks, and bringing underrecognized practices to international audiences.