Sep 20th 2025

The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to present Ruyell Ho and Li Lin Lee: Language of Abstraction featuring select work by two artists of Chinese descent born in Asia, now living in Chicago, whose studio practice since the Seventies explore abstraction that re-envisions language visually.

In a city known for its own brand of Surrealist and Pop Art-influenced figurative painting, Ho and Lee forged separate but parallel paths, doggedly creating their own lexicon centered on the form, structure, and mechanics that originates from the “body” of the written as arguably ideogrammic and calligraphic over the past fifty years.

Curated by Larry Lee, this exhibition acknowledges and celebrates their long artistic careers as part of their contribution to the Chicago art world and Chinese American diasporic experience.

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