I am a Chinese-American artist based in Southern California. My work emerges through intimate conversations with Earth, working across mediums to weave stories of our entanglement and interconnectedness. My process is rooted in devotion, relying on principles of ritual repetition and returning to embed more deeply within ecosystems and attune to natural rhythms. As a descendant of diaspora, this practice of devotion has been a means of healing — rerooting and reweaving back into the story of Earth.
Through painting, I explore how meditative pattern-making can connect us to ancient rhythms and lead us towards more expansive somatic dimensions. My paintings synthesize forms from natural phenomena and intuitive systems to uncover universal languages that bind the singular to the infinite. As a whole, my practice is a generative and reparative response to the widespread fragmentation of the collective imagination, creating space for myself and others to reconnect with Earth and each other as a unified and interconnected body.
connect — lucy@lucymuli.studio
Through painting, I explore how meditative pattern-making can connect us to ancient rhythms and lead us towards more expansive somatic dimensions. My paintings synthesize forms from natural phenomena and intuitive systems to uncover universal languages that bind the singular to the infinite. As a whole, my practice is a generative and reparative response to the widespread fragmentation of the collective imagination, creating space for myself and others to reconnect with Earth and each other as a unified and interconnected body.
connect — lucy@lucymuli.studio
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education
2019 Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NHexhibitions
2024 Solo — She Went for a Swim, Crescent Tree Gallery, Claremont, CA2024 Somewhere on Earth, we are..., Somewhere on Earth x Jackrabbit Studios, Landers, CA
2023 Somos Art House Collective, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Points for Clouds, Dreams Aroused, presented by Projekt______, AI LA, Future Factory, and SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA
2023 HEATWAVES, Bobblehaus Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Instinctive Patterns, Visionary Projects x The Yard: Flatiron North, New York, NY
2022 The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Superfine! Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2022 Pattern and Repetition, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 The Other Art Fair, Saatchi Art, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Solo — The Construction of a Dream, Barrows Rotunda, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH
2019 Senior Majors Exhibition, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hanover, NH
residencies
2025 Upcoming — Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA2025 Upcoming — High Desert Test Sites, A-Z Works, Joshua Tree, CA
2024 Upcoming — Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2024 Somewhere on Earth x Jackrabbit Studios, Landers, CA
2023 Jackrabbit Studios, Landers, CA
2022 Mana Retreat Center, Vega Alta, Puerto Rico
2021 Art House Holland, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
2019 Studio Art Internship, Dartmouth College Studio Art Department, Hanover, NH
press & publications
HEATWAVES Exhibition: Celebrating AAPI Artists From Our Community, Bobblehaus, July 2023Stone to Sand, The Primer, Issue 3: Liquefaction, May 2023
The Earth & Her Stories with Lucy Mu Li, Visionary Projects, February 2023
22 Artists to Collect in 2022, Saatchi Art, January 202