"Artist Lauren Hana Chai is the first member of her family to be born in the US, and like many people with a cross-cultural background, she often feels that she lives in an “in-between world”—both Korean and American, and never fully one or the other.

Through her work she explores her heritage, as well as the trauma of losing her mother, who went missing when Chai was 11 years old. Her recent electric-hued, dynamic paintings are on view in Lauren Hana Chai: The Five Senses, her debut museum exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Aug. 10, 2023, to Jan. 14, 2024"