Yeni Mao, born in 1971 in Canada, is a Chinese-American sculptor based in Mexico City. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later trained in foundry work in California as well as in the architectural industries of New York. Mao’s sculptural practice engages with fragmentation through assemblages and architectonic configurations, suggesting abstracted, unraveled bodies and cyborg-like constructions made from found, fabricated, or sculpted components. Working primarily with steel, ceramic, and leather, he emphasizes hands-on making and material transformation as integral to both form and content. His works evoke sensations of otherness, restraint, and domination, and are coded with references to subcultures, countercultures, and marginalized identities shaped by social, racial, sexual, and transnational conditions. Mao has exhibited widely at major institutions and is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.