Pae White

Pae White is a contemporary artist renowned for her diverse body of work encompassing installations, sculptures, and textiles. Her distinctive artistic signature involves employing yarn, cardboard, and mirror fragments to craft suspended mobiles.

Pae White's art found a place in the prestigious 2009 Venice Biennale and also featured prominently in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Biography of Pae White

Pae White was born in 1963 in Pasadena, CA, USA. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Scripps College in 1985. Later, in 1990, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, followed by completing her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1991.

Pae White drew inspiration primarily from artists such as Alexander Calder and Sister Corita. Her art has been featured in two notable books dedicated to women artists. In 2005, her work was included in "Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century," edited by Uta Grosenick. Additionally, in 2012, her contributions were recognized in the fifth edition of "Women, Art, and Society" by Whitney Chadwick.

Pae White recent solo exhibitions include "Friendship is Magic" at STPI, Singapore (2021), "~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~v2" at neugerriemschneider, Berlin (2021), "Noisy Blushes" at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (2020), "Beta Space: Pae White" at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (2019), "Presumptive Close" at greengrassi, London (2018), "Small World" at Galería Elvira González, Madrid (2018), and "Motherflocker" at neugerriemschneider, Berlin (2018), among others.

Her artworks have found their place in renowned public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Tate Modern in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Pae White's Art Style

Pae White is known for her penchant for material experimentation, often combining advanced technology with artisanal craftsmanship to create transient objects and explore everyday subjects. Her artistic subjects and imagery encompass a wide range, including elements such as smoke and color, popcorn, time, plants, moonlight, birdcalls, insects, and even elements of clip art.

Pae White skillfully blends historical, cultural, and regional imagery with cutting-edge technology to create expansive tapestries. Leveraging digital scanning techniques, the artist adeptly captures her subjects with photographic precision, as exemplified in "Smoke Knows" (2009), where she renders white smoke against a stark black backdrop in remarkable detail.

In "foreverago" (2017), Pae White crafts a 40-meter-long tapestry using an eclectic array of materials, including cotton, lurex, polyester, cashmere, silver, aluminum, and lead. Scattered across this expansive artwork are motifs and imagery drawn from diverse cultures, including those of the Byzantine Empire and Japan.