Lee Tal is an artist based in Jersey City and New York, working across sculpture, installation, and painting. Much of his recent work has been made for public space.
Recent commissions include Blooming Reflection at Stuyvesant Square Park, Manhattan (2024–25); Blooming Reflection — Iris Triptych at Exchange Place, Jersey City (2025); Self-Reflect Memory in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE (2025); Human Geometry at the Kayma Hotel, Dead Sea (2025); Swamp Rose on West 19th Street, Chelsea (2026); and Contemporary Hieroglyph at the W Hotel plaza, Hoboken, made with Eyal Assulin (2026).
Tal has exhibited at the Morris Museum, Susquehanna Art Museum, The Hole, PS122, and the CICA Museum, and took part in the Debtfair project at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. His work is held in private collections in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and in the collection of the Hyatt Union Square, New York.
Statement:
My work positions sculpture as a mediating structure between object, landscape, and perception. I approach sculpture not as an isolated form, but as a spatial condition shaped by constructed environments, natural systems, and the shifting presence of the viewer.
Early in my practice, I became interested in the threshold between disciplines, especially the moment when a surface begins to assert spatial presence and an object begins to function as an image. Over time, this inquiry expanded toward questions of environment: how sculptural forms occupy space, negotiate their surroundings, and shift perception through movement.
Across my work, industrial materials, geometric structure, and organic conditions remain in deliberate tension. In the Blooming Reflection series, polished stainless steel forms reflect architecture, sky, vegetation, and viewers, dissolving the boundary between object and environment. Repetition, geometry, and spatial restraint create situations in which perception becomes an active part of the work.
My sculptures do not resolve these systems into a single language, but hold them in relation, allowing sculpture to function as a site of mediation.