• EDUCATION

    M.F.A., Painting, University of California, Los Angeles, expected June 2025

    B.A., Art Studio, University of California, Davis, 2011

    EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS

    2024 All Things Equal, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    2024 MFA Preview Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    2024 Sweaty Armpits, 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA

    2023 MFAs of LA, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    2023 The de Young Open 2023, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

    2023 Slant Rhyme, Kniznick Gallery, Boston, MA

    2022 Flowering Text, Edo Salon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    2022 Patterns of Transformation, Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    2022 Radical Regeneration, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA

    2022 Grow Our Souls, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    2021 Harvest, Chalk Hill Gallery, Healdsburg, CA

    2021 SF Open Studios Showcase, ArtSpan + SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    2021 No Word for Art: Contemporary Hmong American Art, Museum of Northern California, Chico, CA

    2021 Art-in-Neighborhoods, ArtSpan + Ritual Coffee, San Francisco, CA

    2021 SoFA Pocket Park Murals public art commission, Crossroads with Coins, Cucumber Seeds, Me Too, 12x13’ mural, San Jose, CA

    GRANTS & AWARDS

    2024 Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship

    2022 UCLA Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship

    2021 Sankofa Fund for Cultural Preservation Grant

    2021 Surface Design Association Personal Development Grant

    2021 ArtSpan San Francisco Open Studios Equity Grant

  • Sheng Lor is an artist working in sculpture, drawing and painting. Born as a refugee, her work explores fugitive memory as sites of knowledge. Sheng was raised in California among three generations of Hmong women textile makers, and her practice is a continuation of that legacy which centers on cloth and cloth-making. Using fiber as ground, dye as paint, and needle as brush, Sheng aims to reimagine cloth as a medium for discourse, giving context as well as visibility to complex narratives among Hmong and Southeast Asian diasporic people. She is currently a graduate student and is expected to receive an MFA from UCLA in Spring 2025.

    Contact: shenglorstudio@gmail.com

    Instagram: sheng_weaves