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BIOGRAPHY
May Leichi is an artist based in Queens, New York. Born in Taiwan and raised in New York City, she has lived in South Africa before immigrating to the United States as a child. She creates oil and acrylic paintings, portraitures, and mixed media collages that explore cultural identities, social realities, and spiritual meanings from the Bible. Inspired by her faith, love of color, and the beauty of natural forms, her subjects include human faces and bodies, still lifes, landscapes, animal portraits, and surrealist narratives. She devotes time to figurative drawing and painting at Spring Studio and the Art Students League of New York.
EDUCATION
2010 MA Columbia University
2005 BA Wellesley College |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Vision & Spirit, Undercroft Gallery/Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, NY
2020 Art Sale & 28th Anniversary Fundraiser, Minerva’s Drawing Studio, New York, NY
2019 Parables: Art with a Message, Dove Gallery, Milpitas, CA
2019 The Power of Small Things, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2019 Ex-Voto, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2019 Burn This, The Raw Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2019 When Black Swallows Red, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY
2019 Summer Exhibition 2019, LIC Arts Open Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2019 Student Show, Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
2020 Art Sale & 28th Anniversary Fundraiser, Minerva’s Drawing Studio, New York, NY
2019 Parables: Art with a Message, Dove Gallery, Milpitas, CA
2019 The Power of Small Things, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2019 Ex-Voto, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2019 Burn This, The Raw Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2019 When Black Swallows Red, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY
2019 Summer Exhibition 2019, LIC Arts Open Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2019 Student Show, Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
"Giving you my heart," 2011. Oil on canvas board, 6”x8”
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a means for worship, spiritual nourishment and social and cultural engagement. The creative process is where I work out personal and theological reflections in visual forms. I use a variety of mediums to explore faith and identity narratives, many of which are inspired by meditations on the Bible, theological concepts, and life experiences.
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