BIO
Meeson Jessica Pae was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her fine art degree from University of California Los Angeles. Her solo exhibitions and group exhibitions have been shown internationally throughout Asia and Europe as well as nationally:
K11 Musea (Hong Kong, China)
Carl Kostyal (London, UK)
Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, US)
Nexx Asia (Taipei, Taiwan)
Woaw Gallery + Sow & Tailor (Hong Kong, China)
Chimea Museum (Tainan, Taiwan)
Peter Millard & Partners (London, UK)
Harvard University’s Carpenter Center (Cambridge, US)
Exploratorium Museum (San Francisco, US)
Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, US)
Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, US)
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, US)
She is a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation’s California New Visions Award, the Durfee Foundation’s ARC award, the Hans G. and Lordis W. Burkhardt Foundation Award, AHL Foundation Award, and the Beverly Alpay Award.
Her public art projects include Le Meridien Hotel (Zhengzhou, China), Royal Caribbean International Ltd (Papenburg, Germany), Internet Brands (El Segundo, CA), WebMD (Newark, NJ), Phoenix Biomedical University Campus (Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture), M&D Properties (Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission), LAX International Airport (Department of Cultural Affairs), Ontario Airport (Department of Cultural Affairs), and Mobile Exhibits (Arts Council for Long Beach. She has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Art Ltd Magazine, Theme Magazine, New Scientist, the Korea Times, Los Angeles Times, Vice:The Creators Project, and Hypebeast HypeArt.
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Meeson Jessica Pae
contact: studiomeeson@gmail.com
lives and works in Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2024 TBA, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA
2023 Secretions and Formations, Carl Kostyal, London, UK
2023 Embodied Depths, duo with Keunmin Lee, Nexx Asia, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Fluid Machines, Rusha & Co, Los Angeles, USA (forthcoming)
2022 Converge, Mono Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
2017 New Work, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 Permeate, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, USA
2016 Entwined, La Brea Tar Pits Tarfest, Los Angeles, USA
2013 Art Stage Singapore, solo project, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
2011 Contemporary Istanbul, solo project, Turkey, Istanbul
2011 Installations, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rolling Hills Estates, USA
2011 Moment, Windward Held and Bordy Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2011 Liminal, The Collaborative, ACLB & Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA
2011 Coalesce, Pulse, Los Angeles, USA
2011 Permeate, Blythe Projects, Culver City, USA
2010 Ephemeral Phenomena, Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich, Switzerland *catalog
2010 Accumulations, LAUNCH LA, Los Angeles, USA
2010 Art HK, solo project, Wanchai, Hong Kong
2010 ARCO, solo project, Madrid, Spain
2010 Art LA, solo project, Los Angeles, USA
2009 Refractions, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles,USA
2009 Stratum, JK Gallery, Culver City, USA
2007 Propagation, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, USA
2006 Transitory, The Loft, San Pedro, USA
2006 Systems, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ART FAIRS
2024 Descendents, K11 Musea, Hong Kong, China
2023 Variations on a Theme, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA
2023 Horizons, Sow & Tailor, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 Solidarity, Nexx Asia, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 The Last Notice, Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, USA
2022 Beautiful Not Pretty, Wonzimer, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Digital Time Square, New York City Time Square activation, New York, USA
2021 Digital Time Square, New York City Time Square activation, New York, USA
2020 Containment, Paul Williams Gallery, Ontario, USA
2018 Meditations, The Collaborative, Long Beach, USA
2014 Abstracting from Nature, Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, USA
2014 Three Projects, Cerritos College Gallery, Cerritos, USA (*3 person show & catalog)
2013 Reverberation, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, USA
2013 An Anatomical Poem: from cellular to visceral, El Camino College Gallery, Torrance, USA
2012 Investigating Systems, Kearny Street Projects, San Francisco, USA
2012 Visions from the New California, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, USA
2012 In the Dark, Durden & Ray, LA Mart, Los Angeles, USA
2011 Measure for Measure, Carpenter Center Harvard University Gallery, Cambridge, USA
2011 Measure for Measure, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Gallery, Orange, USA *catalog
2010 Signs of the Forest, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2010 EKFA Winter Show, Eli Klein Fine Arts, New York, USA
2008 Systems Theory, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2008 Scatter, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, USA *three person show
2008 Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Asian New Media, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2007 All In, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2007 Go Native: Installed, Phantom Galleries, Pasadena,USA
2007 Intersection of Past and Present, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, USA *catalog
2006 Contemplating Apocalypse, Brewery Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2005 Index, El Camino College Sculpture Garden, Torrance, USA
2003 See Between the Lines, Bohemia, Los Angeles, USA
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2021 LABA Artist of the Year Icon Award, LABA, Beverly Hills, CA
2019 Damyang International Artist Residency, Damyang, South Korea
2013 AHL Foundation Award, New York, USA
2011 Elizabeth Vyse Memorial Award, Long Beach, USA
2010 James Irvine Foundation Visions from the New California Award, Exploratorium Museum Residency, San Francisco, USA
2007 Artists Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
2007 Beverly G. Alpay Award, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, USA
2002 Hans G. and Lordis W. Burkhardt Foundation Award, Los Angeles, USA
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
HH Princess Fahdah bink Khaled Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia
Internet Brands Corporation, El Segundo, USA
Le Meridien, Zhengzhou, China
M&D Properties, Los Angeles, USA
Royal Caribbean International Ltd, Papenburg, GermanyWindsor Property Management Firm, USA
Wolfgang Puck, Beverly Hills, USA
World Trade Center, Dallas, USA
Private, Zurich, Switzerland
Private, Sao Paul, Brazil
Private, Manhattan Beach, USA
Private, Malibu, USA
Private, Texas, USA
PUBLIC ART & SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023 Public Commission, WebMD Corporate Lobby, Newark, USA
2022 Finalist, Matthews Street Park Public Art Project, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Finalist, Little Tokyo Public Art Project, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, USA
2021 Public Commission, Array, Kilroy Realty Corporation, El Segundo, USA
2020 Public Commission, Gaze, Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission, Terraces at Paseo Colorado, Pasadena, USA
2020 Private Commission, Units, Internet Brands Headquarters, El Segundo, USA
2019 Public Art Commission, Net, Dambit Art Center Damyang Forest, South Korea
2019 Private Commission, Transmit, The Seychelle Penthouse, Santa Monica, USA
2019 Public Commission, Emit, Internet Brands Headquarters, El Segundo, USA
2016 Public Commission, Garden, Royal Caribbean International Ltd, Rostock, Germany
2014 National Aids Monument, Reflections, West Hollywood Park, (Finalist) USA
2013 Public Commission, Traverse, Le Meridien, Zhengzhou, China
2013 Public Commission, Encoding, Department of Cultural Affairs Tom Bradley International Terminal, LA,USA
2011 Public Commission, Urban Oasis, Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission, M&D Properties, Pasadena, USA
2010 Public Commission, Immersion, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Biomedical Campus, Phoenix, USA
2011 Public Commission, Traverse, Department of Cultural Affairs, Ontario Airport, Ontario, USA
2010 Public Commission, Dispersion, Department of Cultural Affairs, Tom Bradley International Airport, LA, USA
2009 Public Commission, Traverse, Mobile Exhibits, Arts Council for Long Beach, Long Beach, USA
2006 Special Project: Los Angeles Arts Association, Sweater, Directed by Tim Hawkinson, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, USA
LECTURES
2022 Visiting Artist Instructor - CD Next Computational Design 9.0, Parametric Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 Guest Artist Lecturer - California State University Fullerton, Art Department, Fullerton, CA
2018 Biola University, La Mirada,CA, Artist Lecture
2016 California State University of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, Artist Lecture2014 Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA, Artist Lecture
2013 El Camino College Gallery, Torrance, CA, Artist Lecture
2012 Windward School, Los Angeles, CA, Artist Lecture & Residency
2011 Los Angeles County Arts Commission & Arts Council for Long Beach, Artist Lecture
2010 Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, Artist Lecture
2005 El Camino College, Beginning Sculpture, Torrance, CA, Artist Lecture
SELECTED REVIEWS
Visual Atelier 8, Interview, Meeson Pae, April 2022
BryteHall, Interview, Meeson Pae, April 2022
Daily Serving, Fan Mail: Meeson Pae Yang, Mailee Hung, October 27, 2016
Vice: The Creators Project, Colors and Shadow Augment an Artistic Investigation into Polarity, Francesca Capossela, July 27, 2016
Art LTD, On View:Meeson Pae Yang, Staff, July 2016Sculpture Magazine, Myths of Fantastical Life: A Conversation with Meeson Pae Yang, Michael Amy, issue June 2013, pg. 24-31(*Cover)
LAWeekly, Art Platform, Pulse and Other Art Fairs Take Over the City. What Did L.A. Think, Shana Nys Dambrot, October 6, 2011
Artweek.LA, Meeson Pae Yang: Liminal, Bill Bush, August 15, 2011, Volume 39
Gazette.com, Collaborative’s Liminal Mixes Nature and Science, Ashleigh Oldland, August 11, 2011
Gazette.com, Eye on Art: Collaborative Hosts Liminal Environment, by Julian Bermudez, Aug. 10, 2011
Artillery, Critic’s Pick, July/August 2011 Issue, pg. 26 -27
Artweek.LA, Meeson Pae Yang: Permeate, Bill Bush, May 13, 2011, Volume 26
Art LTD, Meeson Pae Yang: Accumulations at LAUNCH, Scarlet Cheng, Sept./Oct. Issue, pg. 14
New Scientist, Art Scaled Up and Down, Amanda Gefter, September 29 ,2010, Issue 2780
Korea Times, Meeson Pae Yang, Sookee Chung, June 11, 2010, A-23
Los Angeles Times, Critic’s Notebook: The L.A Art Show, Christopher Knight, January 22, 2010
944, Growing from Concrete, Janine Rayford, December 2009, 944.com
FlavorPill, Let There Be Light, Shana Nys Dambrot, December 5, 2009
The District, Twinkle Town, Vy Pham, December 16, 2009
DailyServing.com, Meeson Pae Yang, Seth Curcio, October 26, 2009
Flavorpill, More Flavor: Discussion, Meeson Pae Yang & Steven Burtch, Shana Nys Dambrot, March 10, 2009
THEME Magazine, Interview with the Artist, March 2009, pg. 22-23
Larchmont Chronicle, Natural vs. the Artificial in Painted World in ‘Vermis,’ March 2009, Section 1pg. 26
THE Magazine, In the Studio, December 2008, pg. 26
Daily Breeze, 1 Exhibit is a real snore, the other is cyborg friendly, Jim Farber, February 1, 2008, ENT-ART pg. 14-15
Art & Living Magazine, Propagation, summer ’07, pg. 110
Artifacts, Alpay Awards, summer 2007, cover pg.
Los Angeles Times, Close-Knit ‘Sweater’ Teamwork, Holly Myers, July 14, 2006, Calendar E-20