Mimi Doyo

Mimi Doyo (b. 1999) is a Filipino-American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her interdisciplinary practice combines painting, poetry, and journaling to explore memory, family, and the layered spaces of home. Working primarily in acrylic, Doyo creates paintings that preserve fleeting moments of everyday life, transforming ordinary scenes into quiet reflections on love, belonging, and the passage of time.

Drawing from her personal archive of photographs, family albums, and journals, Doyo paints domestic interiors, backyard gardens, shared meals, and familiar objects—including houseplants, cans of SPAM, mahjong games, and well-worn shoes by the door. These intimate details become symbols of care, migration, and the quiet rituals that shape family life across generations.

Color plays a central role in her practice. Through transparent glazes, layered washes, and textured surfaces built with palette knives, she shifts the emotional atmosphere of each painting, allowing memory to feel fluid rather than fixed. Fragments of handwritten poetry and journal entries are often embedded beneath the paint or scratched into the surface, creating traces of personal history that invite viewers to slow down and look more closely.