Maile Lani | hello@maile-lani.com
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Oil Paintings
Fairies
These paintings are part of an ongoing original series of fairies and their guardians. Each painting is 18 x 24 inches and was painted with matte acrylic and real 24k gold leaf.
Digital Illustration
An assortment of digitally rendered minimal style illustrations inspired by 20th century Japanese woodblock prints.
Relics
An ongoing series of alien and bird-like creatures rendered in colored pencil.
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hello@maile-lani.com
Maile Lani is a Nashville, Tennessee (USA) based artist working in oils, acrylic with 24k gold leaf, colored pencil, and digital illustration. Her work explores the liminal spaces between memory and the present, creating quiet symbolic works that feel like visual maps of places one may have forgotten to remember.
Drawing primarily from partially forgotten childhood memories of unexplained experiences, Maile creates atmospheric scenes populated by partially rendered creatures and lost figures. Each piece functions as an invitation to step into an imagined world where dreams and the subconscious intertwine.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Group Exhibition: "Year of the Horse" Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco CA, February 2026
Group Exhibition: "Gold Embrace: Tribute to Klimt" Poetic Tiger Gallery, March 2026
Group Exhibition: "Restless Garden" Modern Eden Gallery April 2026
Solo Exhibition: "The Moon and Other Tales" Fiddlehead Gallery, Clarksville TN, Fall 2026
Past Exhibitions
Group Exhibition: "Moonlit Whiskers" Curio Gallery, January 2026
Group Exhibition: "Waking Wonder" Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco CA, December 2025
Group Exhibition: "Hauntings" Strathmore, Rockville MD, 2025
Juried Exhibition: IX Arts Main Show, Reading PA, 2025
Group Exhibition: "Tarot Esoterica" Sideshow Gallery, Chicago IL, 2025
Juried Group Exhibition: "Gods and Monsters" Otherworldly Arts Collective, Minneapolis MN, 2024
Juried Group Exhibition: "DROP IN Skate Deck Art Show" Otherworldly Arts Collective, Minneapolis MN, 2024
Solo Exhibition: "Portals: Places Unseen," The Center for the Arts, Murfreesboro, TN, 2023
Group Exhibition: "Art of Resilience," Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville TN, 2023
Group Exhibition: Tomato Art Show, Nashville, TN, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
Juried Art Fair: Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022
Juried Art Fair: Columbus Arts Festival, Columbus, OH, 2025, 2024, 2023
Juried Art Fair: St. James Court, Louisville, KY, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022
Juried Art Fair: Atlanta Dogwood Festival, Atlanta, GA, 2024, 2022
Group Exhibition: Tennessee Craft, Hendersonville, TN, 2021
Collections
Public Collections
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Community Art Initiative, 2023
Private Collections
Works held in numerous private collections in the USA and abroad
Awards and Recognitions
Best in Show, Dogwood Arts Festival, 2024
Tennessee Craft Summer Study Scholarship, 2021
First Place, Textile Fabrics Annual Sewing Competition, 2019
Publications
Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine, 2024
Nashville Scene, 2021