Yeni Mao

The sculptural practice of Yeni Mao engages in issues of fragmentation through a series of assemblages and architectonic arrangements. In a manner of material fetishization, the works imply abstracted, unraveled bodies; cyborg constructions of found, fabricated, or sculpted components. Predominately using steel, ceramic, and leather as raw materials, Mao constructs the works himself, citing the act of making and the transformation of materials as a vehicle to both content and form.

Yeni is a Chinese-American sculptor based in Mexico City. He received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and subsequently trained in foundry work in California, and the architectural industries of New York. His work is included in the collection of the Kadist Foundation, the CC Foundation, and he was recently commissioned by Soho House Mexico City for an installation. Mao is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and his work has been written about in Art in America, Frieze, and The New York Times.