Mimi Bai was born in Xi’an, China and is based in Brooklyn, New York. Using the imagery of camouflage and ghosts, she engages with ideas of labor, assimilation, invisibility and hyper-visibility, and survival as both a lived reality and individualist fantasy.
Bai has presented work at Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at organizations including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, BRICworkspace, Sculpture Space, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Bai was recently a SIP Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop as well as a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Interdisciplinary Work and a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Bai attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2017-2018 and is a graduate of Alfred University (MFA, Sculpture) and Wesleyan University (BA, Sociology).