Zenobia Lee


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Zenobia (b. 1996, New York, NY) is a Los Angeles based artist whose sculpture-based practice seeks for clarity and meaning residing within a particular object or material. Rooted in the enduring colonial histories of the Caribbean and its diaspora, her work traces the ways queerness, the homoerotic, and desire take shape-how they persist, shift, flatten. Drawing from personal narratives and symbolic archetypes, she considers what becomes of chaos when it reverberates and recycles across time. Sculpting is veiling, while veiling becomes sculpting. Clarity is made more visible by its relation to other objects.

Zenobia has previously held a two person exhibition at Deli Gallery, New York, NY as well as group exhibitions at Chozick Family Art Gallery, New York, NY; Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA; and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY. Zenobia is in the public collection of North Carolina State Historic Sites and Properties.

Education
2025    MFA University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 
2018    BFA Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2026    (forthcoming) Solo exhibition, Sea View, Los Angeles, CA
2024    Sanctuary: Zenobia and Jarvis Boyland, Deli Gallery, New York, NY 

Group Exhibitions
2025    Between the Written and the Worn, Open Area, London, UK
2025    FAMILY / TREE, Chozick Family Art Gallery, New York, NY 
2024    Ballast: Recent Aesthetic Practices in Response to Anti-Blackness curated by E. Chris Brady, Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA 
2022    Extra Terrestrial, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY 
2020    A Gathering, HOUSING, New York, NY 

Public Collections
The Collection of North Carolina State Historic Sites and Properties 

Lectures
2022    Caribbean Architecture, What is it? Caribbean GSD, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA 

Curation
2024    Modeling Ecologies: Take Care, Entrance Gallery, New York, NY 
2022    Thick Like Dumpling, HOUSING, New York, NY 

Press
2022    “Archives Beyond Authorship, An Interview with Sucking Salt”, Ella Ray, Cult Classic Magazine 
2021    “Video, Caribbean Architecture Explored Through Its Own Material History”, Pin-Up Magazine