Nia Lee
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session II
Nia Lee is a Los Angeles–based artist and writer whose practice materializes Black Food Futurism through sculpture, installation, ritual, and communal performance. Their work explores Black memory, domestic labor, taste, and spirit as portals for ancestral connection and speculative possibility. Nia’s work moves fluidly between material experimentation and multisensory worldbuilding and creates artworks and experiences that merge archival histories with embodied, future-facing imagination.
Their approach has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, Thrillist, Vogue, and more. Nia appeared on Netflix’s James Beard–nominated docuseries High on the Hog and the James Beard Award–winning podcast Black Kitchen Series. They are the visionary behind Stormé Supper Club, a social sculpture and ritual dinner series centering queer Black women, femmes, and gender-expansive individuals.
Nia’s work attends to care, liberation, and the architectures that shape Black life. They collaborate with cultural institutions, organizers, scholars, and communities to create installations, performances, and shared rituals that serve as sites of reprieve, memory, imagination, and collective dreaming.