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Mylee Etuale, Residency and Exhibition
Pilele Projects
August 21 - October 17, 2026
Open Studios, Fridays and Saturdays 2-4pm throughout September
Exhibition Opening, October 3
We are thrilled to announce the next artist residency at Pilele Projects featuring Mylee Etuale! Mylee has converted Pilele Projects’ exhibition space into her studio and will be working on her current series of paintings throughout the month of September. She will offer open studio hours on Fridays and Saturdays from 2-4pm, so you can stop in and learn about her process and practice. She will complete her residency by transforming the space back into a gallery for an exhibition opening October 3. Save the date!
Mylee Etuale is a Sāmoan and Mexican-American painter from Carson, California. Her work explores memory, domestic landscapes, and the native foliage of Sāmoa, her ancestral homeland. She uses drawing and acrylic paint to weave fragments of memory with elements of domesticity to tell personal narratives, combine spaces, and capture moments in time. As a lifetime resident of the South Bay of Los Angeles, she draws inspiration from architectural patterns, botany, and the suburban landscape around her. They inform compositional elements of her work as she observes her Indigenous heritage through an American lens.
She is interested in continuing the tradition of creation as it relates to her ancestry.
Etuale received her BA in Studio Art from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2024.
Email hafa@pileleprojects.org