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Jolene Lai is a Los Angeles-based artist and illustrator born and raised in Singapore. After studying painting at Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore, Jolene studied graphic design at UCLA and spent a year working at movie-poster design house, The Refinery Creative, before returning to focus on fine art.

She works primarily with oil on canvas or mixed media on water color paper. With bold use of color, shape and intricate detail, she creates images with a seductive aesthetic and subject matter that weaves in emotions of whimsy, melancholy, irony and absurdity.

Lai seeks to engage her audience in works that are approachable, newly imagined spaces that the viewer is invited to explore on their own terms. Read Less

2012
· Affordable Art Fair Singapore
· Allegory, Galerie Sogan & Art
· Wild at Heart: Keep Wildlife in the Wild, Thinkspace Art Gallery
· Synergy, Spoke Art Gallery
· Picks of the Harvest 2012, Thinkspace Art Gallery

2011
· Affordable Art Fair Singapore
· From Raffles till now, Raffles Town Club
· Boys who like boys who like Girls who like Girls, Utterly Art
· Cannibal Flower Group Show & Performance, Think Tank
· Moving Still, Vue Privee
· Noise Festival Showcase, Noise Singapore

2010
· Process, J+K Gallery

2009
· The Hive Gallery and Studios Group Art show and Performances, The Hive Gallery
· The Rabbit Hole, Daydream Republic

2008
· UCLAx Design/DCA Student Show, UCLA Extension Visual Arts

2007
· ASUCLA Art in the Union

2006
· The Hive Gallery and Studios Group Art show and Performances, The Hive Gallery

2005
· Singapore Art Show, Singapore Management University

2004
· New Finds, Art Galleries Association Singapore
· Choco the lion does not live in Night Safari, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts
· Travelogue - The Winston Oh Travel Award Drawing Exhibition. LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Read Less