Mimi Biyao Bai was born in Xi’an, China, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, and film and her work uses camouflage to explore how the cultural fantasies we have inherited about assimilation, labor, and survival both confirm and contradict our lived realities.  

Bai has presented work at Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC, Cuchifritos Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Bai was a 2023/24 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Interdisciplinary Work, and a recipient of two Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at organizations including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Pioneer Works, Triangle, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her films have screened at Rooftop Films, the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances (CARA), the Rockaway Film Festival and the Maryland Film Festival. Bai attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and is a graduate of Alfred University (MFA Sculpture) and Wesleyan University (BA Sociology).

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