MAY KYTONEN
Seattle, WA

PUBLIC ART & COMMISSIONS
2026    Sound Transit Art Program, Portal at Longfellow Creek, Seattle, WA (as LUMI)
2023    Mother Tongue: Deluge Stories, Bethany Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA
2022    Path of the Sky Dragon, Seattle Center Temporary Public Installation
2022    Anterior Periapt, Seattle Restored at 2+U, Seattle, WA (as LUMI)
2021    In the Fabric of Space & Time II, Maverick Building, Burien, WA
2021    Yuán Fèn: We Were Fated, Art on Main, Auburn, WA
2020    Yuán Fèn, Shunpike Storefronts, Seattle, WA
2019    In the Fabric of Space & Time, Spaceworks, Tacoma, WA 
2017    I've Been Keeping Things In, Forza Coffee Company, Spokane, WA

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2026    SDA Community Fund Award, Surface Design Association
2025    Artist Candidate Pool (as LUMI), Sound Transit Art Program
2025    ArtsWA Public Artist Roster, Washington State Arts Commission
2022    Artist-in-Residence, The Seattle Residency Project, Indianola, WA
2021    ArtsWA Public Artist Roster, Washington State Arts Commission
2021    Seattle Public Artist Roster, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
2019    Seattle Ethnic Artist Roster, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
2019    Artist-in-Residence, Brehm Cascadia, Seattle, WA
2017    Seattle Ethnic Artist Roster, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
2017    smART Ventures Mini Grant Recipient, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
2017    Grant for Artist Projects (GAP) Award, Artist Trust

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025    Field of Belonging, SPAC Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023    Affinity Occasion, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID
2020    Throughlines, Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019    Blended Traditions, ArtsWest, Seattle, WA 
2018    Close/Divide, Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026    ACES at Magnuson Park, Magnuson Park Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022    Liminal Hymns, Core Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022    40 Under 40, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2022    Tangents, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery at CWU, Ellensburg, WA 
2022    Meet Us in the Afterglow, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022    My Ancestors Taught Me, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA
2021    Interfacing With Missed Connections, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO
2021    Paths Intertwined, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA 
2019    Brighter Future, ARTS at King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2019    Artists Up, Cornish Playhouse, Seattle, WA
2019    In the Mix, Boise State University, Boise, ID

PRESS
2022    Jas Keimig, A Wave of Art Installations and Pop-Ups Make a Short Term Home in Downtown Seattle, The Stranger, Apr. 11
2021    Madeleine Boyson, Interfacing with Missed Connections, DARIA Magazine, Jul. 23
2021    Natalie Swaby, Seattle exhibit features works from artists of Taiwanese, Chinese diaspora, King 5, May 3
2021    Margo Vansynghel, Five art shows to see as Seattle-area museums reopen, Crosscut, Feb. 17
2018    Audrey Overstreet, Saturate: Spokane Artist May Kytonen Weaves Newsprint into the Story of Asian-American Lives, The Spokesman Review, Jan. 31
2017    Audrey Overstreet, Artist Trust Makes Grant Awards to Four Spokane-area Artists, The Spokesman Review, Oct. 26
2016    Brianna Van Dyke, And The Soul Felt Its Worth, Ruminate Magazine, Winter 2016. Pp. 56-60

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021-2023       Member, SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017-2018       Member, Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, WA
2017-2018       Member, Glittercouch, Spokane, WA
2017                 Guest Panelist, Kalos Visual Art Prize, Ruminate Magazine 

ARTIST TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
2024    Bethany Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA, Feb. 9
2023    Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID, Oct. 19
2021    Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA, Jul. 10
2020    Seattle Center Armory Lofts, Seattle, WA, Feb. 29
2019    Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, Apr 5

EDUCATION
2012    BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA