Artist Bio
Tidawhitney Lek
Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, lives and works in Long Beach) is a Cambodian-American painter. Her work plays with narrative and the Asian experiences of first-generation Americans. She received a BFA from Cal State University of Long Beach (2017). Her narratives are relative to their own experiences growing up as a female Cambodian- American in Southern California.
Lek plays with traditional and conventional mediums like pastel, acrylic, and oil paints on canvas. Her textures interchange as pictorial spaces recede and soften, and narratives take shape in composition to light, landscape, and figures. Her art is a mix of past nostalgia by mundane objects and history juxtaposed against the architectural space of a home.
Exhibitions: “The View We Seek“