Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, lives and works in Los Angeles) is a Cambodian-American painter from Long Beach, California. Her work plays with narrative and the Asian experiences of first-generation Americans born to immigrant parents. These bright and somber paintings present nuances of domesticity, figures and hands interacting in composition as culture and Southeast-Asian elements echo through mundane objects found from places like the home. She reinvents the traditional and conventional mediums like pastel, acrylic and oil paints on canvas, interchanging textures as pictorial spaces recede and soften. Lek graduated with her BFA from Cal State University of Long Beach. Her work has been exhibited at Sow & Tailor, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, the Armory, and most recently at K11 Musea in Hong Kong.