Lauren Iida

Memory Net (2017), Temporary installation Fremont Foundry with Atlas Obscura, hand-cut paper, 40 x 4 feet

Memory Net (2017) Temporary Installation Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia, hand-cut paper, 10 x 4 feet

"Quarantinescape" (2021) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, ink, acrylic 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm)

"Quarantinescape II" (2021) Hand-cut paper, ink, acrylic 18 x 12 inches (45.5 x 30 cm)

"Making the Most of It: Rado" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, 38 x 50 inches (127 x 96 cm)

“Celestial Child” (2020) Hand-cut paper, acrylic, watercolor 14 x 16 inches (36 x 41 cm) SOLD

"A New Start" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, ink, acrylic 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm) SOLD

"Power" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, ink, acrylic 24 x 13.5 inches (61 x 34 cm) SOLD

"Afternoon in Battambang" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, acrylic, ink, 10 x 17 inches (25 x 43 cm) SOLD

"Seyha in the Sunken Forest" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, acrylic 5 x 7 inches (12 x 18 cm)

"Veasna in the Sunken Forest" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, acrylic 10 x 17 inches (25 x 43 cm)

"Season of Change" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper 50 x 34 inches (127 x 86 cm) SOLD

“Renovation” (2020) Lauren Iida Hand-cut paper, ink, acrylic 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)

"Solace" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor 16.5 x 13 inches (42 x 33 cm)

"Awaiting" (2019), Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, acrylic, watercolor - SOLD

"Broken Hearted Moon (Uncle Has Gone to Mars Already)" (2018), Lauren Iida, Hand-cut paper, ink, acrylic, 5 x 5 inches (13 x 13 cm)

"The Gloves Are Off" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, ink 13 x 22 inches (33 x 56 cm)

"Unspoken" (2017), Lauren Iida, Hand-cut paper, 26 x 17 inches (66 x 43 cm) (photographed on a black backdrop)

Lauren Iida was born in Seattle and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornish College of the Arts (2014). She shares her time between Seattle and Cambodia, exhibiting her work, creating public art installations, and mentoring and representing emerging contemporary Cambodian artists through Open Studio Cambodia. 

Her main medium is intricately hand-cut paper, often incorporating layers of ink washed paper and focusing on negative space and shadow play. Her reoccurring 30-foot-long hand-cut paper temporary installation/performance piece, the "Memory Net" has traveled the world, taking on new meaning and engaging communities in each new context.

In the USA, Iida has exhibited her work at ArtXchange Gallery, King Street Station, the Mayor’s Gallery at Seattle City Hall, Shoreline City Hall, Virago Gallery, Tacoma Spaceworks, Sculpture Northwest, and Columbia City Gallery among others. Iida is an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient and received an Art Matters fellowship in 2017. She was also awarded a Densho Artist-in-Residence Award in 2021. 

Her work has been collected by the City of Seattle Portable Works Collection (2016), King County Public Art Collection (2019) and the Washington State Arts Commission (2020).  Iida has been commissioned to create temporary and permanent public art by The City of Seattle, The City of Shoreline, Washington State Convention Center Addition, The Office of Arts and Culture/Seattle Department of Transportation, The City of Bellevue, Plymouth Housing, and Sound Transit. 

Iida is the founder of Open Studio Cambodia, an arts collective based in Siem Reap, Cambodia which supports eight emerging Cambodian contemporary artists and organizes exhibitions, art workshops, and contemporary art tours throughout the country.

​Much of Iida's artwork is influenced by Cambodia where she has been active for many years working on projects to support and mentor artists and other social entrepreneurship projects beginning in 2008. Other major influences include her family's Japanese American heritage and incarceration during WWII and celebrating her Pacific Northwest home.

www.laureniida.com

PRESS 

"Divination" (2020), Lauren iida, hand-cut paper, ink, 13.5 x 20.5 inches (34 x 52 cm)

"Red Horizon" (2020), Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, 15 x 20 inches (38 x 50 cm)

"The Boy in the Tree" (2018), Lauren Iida, Hand-cut paper, watercolor, 8.5 x 11 inches ( 22 x 28 cm)

"Girl With Palm Fruit" (2019), Lauren Iida, Hand-cut paper, acrylic, watercolor, 5 x 6 inches (13 x 15 cm) - SOLD

"Golden Horizon" (2019), Lauren Iida, Hand-cut paper, acrylic, watercolor, 5 x 5 inches (13 x 13 cm) - SOLD

“Fly Away”(2020), Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, tea, 11 x 7.5 inches (28 x 19 cm)

“Sifting Rice” (2020) Lauren Iida Hand-cut paper, watercolor, acrylic 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm)

"Mango Rain" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, ink, watercolor 16 x 23.5 inches (41 x 60 cm)

"Into the Distance" (2019), Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, watercolor, acrylic, 3.5 x 5 inches (9 x 13 cm) SOLD

"Mountain Moon After Rain" (2018), Lauren Iida, Hand-cut paper, ink, acrylic, 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) SOLD

"Moonlight at Angkor Wat" (2020) Lauren Iida, hand-cut paper, ink, acrylic, watercolor 12 x 17 inches (30 x 36 cm)