About

Originally from Hong Kong, Mei Lam So is an artist who focuses on printmaking, textile printing, and ceramics. She received her BFA degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA degree in Printmaking and Ceramics from the University of Iowa.

So’s work focuses on the integration and disintegration of identity within the context of cultural and familial relationships. She explores topics surrounding the acculturation process of bicultural Asian immigrants; particularly, how others navigate and integrate their own conflicting values and beliefs. Using printmaking, So creates narratives that share her experiences of being a bicultural individual and its perennial condition of balancing various identities.