EDUCATION
2004
MFA, Painting/Printmaking, Yale University
2001
BFA, Painting, Washington University in St. Louis
EXHIBITIONS
2023
After Hours, solo exhibition, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY
Escaping the Land, Frosch & Co, New York, NY
2022
A S K E W, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Year Without a Summer, solo exhibition, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Making [It] Work, curated by Karla Wozniak and Georgia Elrod, California College of the Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018
Here Today, solo exhibition, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2017
Baggage Claim, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Dense Mesh, curated by Joshua Citarella, Carroll/Fletcher, London, England
2015
Painting in Trees, curated by Benjamin La Rocco, The People’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Order of Things, curated by Jamillah James, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
2012
First Contact, Field Projects, New York, NY
Future Pieces, curated by Jon Lutz, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
Till Dust Gathers on Grass, curated by Amanda Schmitt, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
Two Sides of a 45, Des Lee Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Opulent Vision, FordPROJECT, New York, NY
2011
Rich-oo-uhl, Rich-oo-uhl, curated by Yevgeniya Baras, Jolie Laide, Philadelphia, PA
The Finishers, curated by Eric Gleason and Ethan Greenbaum, Wassaic Art Project, Wassaic, NY
Entanglement, Art Blog Art Blog, New York, NY
Entanglement, Regina Rex, Queens, NY
Heading for a fall: the art of entropy, fordPROJECT, New York, NY
re:vision, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Gravity, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Min., RegiIna Rex, Brooklyn, NY
Compose, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Krut Projects, New York, NY.
Two Degrees of Separation, Satori, New York, NY
2009
System: System, curated by Adam Henry and Christina Vassallo, St. Cecillia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY
timespacemattertime, Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA (Solo)
No Objective, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
Abstraction and Contractions, Lumen House, Brooklyn, NY
Pratt Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2008
183 Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy, New York, NY
Preternatural Selection, curated by Jessica Slaven, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2007
Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
Gone, curated by Steve Budington, Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VM
Muzzle of Bees, curated by Thomas Brauer, 33 Bond Gallery, New York, NY
U Can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art, curated by Eric Schiner, Zone Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY
Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2006
BAM Benefit Auction and Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Eye Candy, Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Saturday Morning, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Vermont Studio Center Benefit and Auction, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Breaking and Entering, Tyler Estate, New New York, NY
2004
Exposition / Portes-Ouvertes, Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Giverny, France
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2003
Yale M.F.A. Show, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT
2002
M.F.A. Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Lisha Bai ‘Here Today’,” office, October 13, 2017
Deborah Kuan, “Our Planet, Ourselves,” Culture Hall, September 22–October 5, 2010
Edith Newhall, “Re-Jenny-ation,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 23, 2009
Goings On About Town, “Goings On About Town: National Academy Museum,” The New Yorker, July 7, 2008
Daniel Kunitz, “The National Academy Museum’s Grab-Bag Anthology,” The New York Sun, June 5, 2008
Karen Rosenberg, “Where Have All the Paintings Gone? To the National Academy,” The New York Times, May 30, 2008
“The NY Arts Annual Guide to the Internet, Artists” New York Arts Magazine, Volume 12 No. 11/12 November/December 2007, p.162
B. Blagojevic, “A Muzzle of Bees at 33 Bond” ArtCal, October 4, 2007
Domino Magazine, March 2007
Natasha Boas, “Art That Goes With Everything,” Domino Magazine, November 2006
Anne Doran, “Saturday Morning,” Time Out New York, Issue No. 510 July 7-13, 2005
GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2008
S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award, National Academy, New York, NY
2005
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT.
2004
Terra Summer Residency Fellow, Giverny, France.
2003
Ruth Hindman Foundation Scholar.
2001
Jeffrey Frank Wacks Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis.
Hazel Huntsinger Memorial Prize in Painting, Washington University in St. Louis.
2000
Irving L. Sorger Award in CORE, Washington University in St. Louis.
TEACHING
2008–2016
Visiting Instructor, Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Instructor, Art and Design Education, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Adult Program Instructor, Drawing Through the Found, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
VISITING ARTIST
2010
Lehman College, Guest Critic, Bronx, NY
2009
Millersville University, Artist Talk, Millersville, PA
2008
Rhode Island School of Design Guest Critic, Providence, RI
Tyler School of Art, Guest Critic, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA
2007
Colburn Gallery, Artist Talk, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2006
Rubin Museum of Art, Artist on Art Lecture Series, New York, NY