Pae White

Pae White lives and works in Los Angeles. White received her BA from Scripps College in Claremont, California, in 1985 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1991. Individual exhibitions of White’s work include Pae White: “Lisa, Bright & Dark” (2008) at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona; Directions: Virgil Marti and Pae White (2007) at the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; and Hammer Projects: Pae White (2004) at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. White’s work also has been included in many group exhibitions, including New Materials as New Media (2007) at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; Sculpture Projects Münster 07 (2007) in Münster, Germany; Extreme Abstraction (2005) at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; and Abstract Painting, Once Removed (1998) at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. White’s public commissions include MetaFoil (2008) for the National Opera House in Oslo, Norway; Briquettes and Support (2003), a series of fauna-shaped barbecues commissioned by Minetta Brook for Bear Mountain State Park and Franklin D. roosevelt State Park in upstate New York; and MultipliCity (2003) with Tom Marble, AIA, for the Metro Rapid Line of Los Angeles County.