Born in Ohio to first generation Chinese American parents in 1998, Ba spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Her recent paintings—in which monumental nude figures, often after the artist’s own image, inhabit uncanny interiors and evocative urban environments—combine realism and fantasy to explore issues of desire and sexuality, capitalism and nationalism, and diasporic memory through lenses of queer and post-colonial thinking. With a keen interest in curation and artist communities, Ba previously curated a group show at James Fuentes in which her fellow friends and painters (notably Oscar Hou, Dominique Fung and Sasha Gordon) were participants. Following group shows at Gladstone and Gagosian, and her recent solo at Jeffrey Deitch, Ba plans on undertaking her next solo with Micki Meng in 2025.