Courtesy Night Gallery

Tidawhitney Lek: Something Familiar

Night Gallery Los Angeles · Downtown LA

Exhibition on view: Nov 21, 2026 - Jan 30, 2027

Something Familiar is Los Angeles-based artist Tidawhitney Lek’s first solo exhibition with Night Gallery. Her bright, densely populated new paintings draw from her Cambodian-American family and cultural traditions, her household, and the streets and shopfronts of Long Beach and Anaheim.

Tidawhitney Lek

Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach, California) is a Cambodian American painter. Her work plays with narrative and the everyday experience of a first-generation American born to immigrant parents, and her bright and somber paintings present nuances of domesticity, with figures and hands interacting in compositions where cultural Southeast Asian elements echo through mundane objects. Lek reinvents the conventional mediums of pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas, interchanging textures as pictorial spaces recede and soften. Her work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch in New York and Los Angeles, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, the Armory Show and "Made in L.A. 2023" at the Hammer Museum. It has been acquired by the Columbus Museum of Art, the East West Bank Collection, the Hammer Museum, K11 Foundation, ICA Miami, the Pérez Art Museum Miami and LACMA.