iris yirei hu- May-June 2025

Photo by Leah Rom

iris yirei hu is a multidisciplinary journey-based artist from Los Angeles who works across paintings, installations, intercultural collaborations, writing, and public art.

She roots her art practice in processes of material and spiritual transformation, as evidenced in labor intensive pieces and installations that explore the subterranean realms of grief and loss, cycles of life and death, the earthly and the otherworldly, and the infinitely evolving self. Central to her practice is learning from and working across territories and peoples, through which she investigates how geography, kinship, and the sacred are reflected in cultural technologies and ecological practices. Her work intimately probes the sentience in the natural world and the vulnerability in human connection across cultural, geographic, and generational differences, through which she creates imaginative ways to understand oneself and proposes relational and open-ended pathways towards solidarity.

Visit iris’s website here.

Detail from The transmission of the heart wisdom (universe), 2024.

Photo by Angel Xotlanihua