The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to announce “View To A Burnt World”, an art exhibition featuring works by Richard Yu-Tang Lee in the Bernier Room at the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, beginning May 4, 2026.
Richard Yu-Tang Lee is an emerging Asian American artist. Lee uses pattern as a vehicle to describe time, articulating the excellence and fallibility of memory. His work is informed by observation of natural phenomena and an ever-present awareness of the self as “viewer.”
Lee has worked as an art director and a cook, professional backgrounds that inform his painting practice and have given way to multidisciplinary projects such as the collaborative 4-year-long design, cooking, and manufacturing performance piece, “Little Brother Chinese Food,” completed in 2025 (documented @littlebrotherchinesefood on Instagram).
“View To A Burnt World” marks Lee’s fifth solo exhibition and third time showing in New Hampshire. Lee is scheduled to exhibit in his hometown of Chicago at the Bulgarca Cultural Center in the summer of 2027.
“View To A Burnt World” will be on display until September 4, 2026, with a reception planned for from to . The public is encouraged to attend. The Bernier Room is located at James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit www.rochestermfa.org to learn more.
The museum gratefully acknowledges the generous support of its corporate sponsors, community partners, and collaborators, including the City of Rochester, Lilac Club Casino, Meredith Village Savings Bank, Back Hill Beer Co., Creative Guts Podcast, and the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce.
