Tidawhitney Lek: Something Familiar at Night Gallery, Los Angeles — 21 Nov 2026–30 Jan 2027
Night Gallery presents “Something Familiar”, the first solo exhibition with the gallery of the Los Angeles painter Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach). Her crowded, brightly coloured new canvases draw on daily life — her Cambodian-American family and its customs, her home, and the streets and storefronts of Long Beach and Anaheim — and use ordinary routine as a doorway into history and inherited memory. In Wat (2026), worshippers at her family’s Buddhist temple form a chain of touching hands towards the altar; Auto Corner, her largest painting to date, turns an Anaheim auto shop into a meditation on public and private space; another work responds to the 2025 immigration raid in the LA Flower District, where she once had a studio. According to the press release, Lek came to see the series as an unintended self-portrait, often placing her own figure in the scenes turned away or half hidden. Doorways, fences and windows recur throughout as thresholds that can be crossed or closed.
| Exhibition | Tidawhitney Lek: Something Familiar |
|---|---|
| Artist(s) | Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach, California; BFA, California State University, Long Beach; lives and works in Los Angeles) |
| Gallery | Night Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Exhibition type | Solo exhibition — new paintings (acrylic, oil and glitter on canvas) |
| Dates | 21 November 2026 – 30 January 2027. Opening: Saturday 21 November 2026 (time not stated — check with the gallery) |
| Address | 2050 Imperial Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021, United States |
| Opening hours | Tuesday–Saturday 11:00–18:00 |
| Phone | +1 323 763 2115 |
| [email protected] | |
| Gallery website | nightgallery.ca |
| Official exhibition page | Tidawhitney Lek: Something Familiar — Night Gallery |
| Artist page | tidawhitneylek.com |
| Social media | Artist: Instagram @tidawhitney. Gallery: no social accounts linked from the official website — check with the gallery |
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Read the Art Fair analysis
Our in-depth article on this exhibition looks at how Lek turns temples, auto shops and flower markets into a family history told in glitter and oil. For more openings in Istanbul, Ankara, London, Paris, Spain, Dubai and the United States, see Upcoming Art Exhibitions in Leading Galleries.
Cover image: Tidawhitney Lek, To Little Me (Ronnie), 2024, glitter, pastel, acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 × 48 in. © Tidawhitney Lek. Photo: Ed Mumford. Courtesy the artist and Night Gallery — earlier work shown for reference, not part of this exhibition. Please confirm details with the gallery before visiting.