KAI-LI MA visual artist

Kai-li Ma (b. 1985, Hamburg, Germany) is a German-Chinese visual artist based in Montréal, Canada. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications Design and a Master’s in Fashion Business from IFA Paris and Polimoda, Italy.

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​A multidisciplinary artist, Ma works across painting, sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice gives form to feelings that resist words, using acrylic, ink, textile dye and thread to create layered, tactile works.​

 

In her ongoing series Perfectly Imperfect, created in the wake of her father’s passing, she investigates grief and the tension between what is displayed and what is concealed, exploring the emotional space in between. She traces the invisible architecture of feeling and the nonlinear process of healing, holding sorrow and transformation simultaneously, and emphasizing the quiet strength found in imperfection, memory, and emotional connection.