Artist Profile: Khoi Le

Khoi Le is a multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates memory, identity, power, and digital culture through a visual language grounded in text, iconography, and transformation. Incorporating both sacred and popular symbols—like Jesus, Reagan, and Bella Hadid—Le reimagines their significance in contemporary contexts, using them to critique systems of belief, emotional expression, and collective memory. His practice often merges digital aesthetics with physical material, exploring how meme culture and internet iconography function as emotional truths and cultural artifacts.

Working across drawing, installation, and sculpture, Le engages time as a conceptual anchor—appearing in cycles of decay, repetition, and historical layering. Whether staging a garden as metaphor for unstable memory or embedding meme language into material forms, his work invites viewers to reflect on the ways we process grief, humor, and identity in a hyper-mediated world. Influenced by artists like Danh Vo and Doris Salcedo, Le brings raw materiality and nuanced symbolism into conversation, creating work that is both conceptually sharp and emotionally resonant.