Pae White Untitled
installation view UTA Los Angeles, 2012

Pae White

Pae White was born in Pasadena, California. She graduated in 1985 from Scripps College, Claremont and received her MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena in 1991. Los Angeles-based Pae White merges art, design, craft and architecture through site-specific installations and individual works which defy expectations of a variety of techniques and media. Pae White's work is characterised by its diversity and the artist's ability to develop visually impressive responses to a range of contexts.

Gallery installations have included a shimmering sea of over-sized, gold-lined popcorn kernels suspended from fine threads to hover just above the floor, huge tapestries of photorealistic smoke plumes, and room-filling mobiles of mirrored geometric shapes. In 2009 she responded to Miami's architectural skyline with her own micro-development of temporary scaffolding structures, made magical through the interior illumination of their brightly coloured translucent walls, whilst in 2008 an outdoor exercise park for dogs proved to be a popular hit with dog owners at the Folkestone Triennial. For the 2009 Venice Biennale animals were again a preoccupation when White transformed a warehouse into an imagined haven for birds hanging beneath a ceiling of coloured acrylic thread, a series of extraordinary seed-encrusted chandeliers implied the presence of birds, periodically made audible by impersonators whistling live in the space.

White has exhibited extensively across the USA and internationally over the past twenty years, as well as undertaking high profile projects for the Venice Biennale in 2009 and Whitney Biennale in 2010, and numerous commissions including those for Transport for London, the New Opera House in Oslo and Berlin Brandenburg airport. Other solo shows include those at the Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (March-July 2013) and at MAK in Vienna, Austria (Autumn 2013).

Pae White is one of the most significant American female artists participating in the international dialog on design today.