about me

Litthisouk Nyx Keomounmany (they/them) is from Salt Lake City. They work with paint, graphic design, and photography. Originally an artist as a hobby, but now considers a career in the arts and design industry. Much of Keomounmany’s work addresses the model minority myth while navigating the intersections of their identity as a queer, gender-diverse, first-generation Asian American; and how all these revolve around the model minority stereotype.


Keomounmany is inspired by the de Stijl/Neoplasticism movement and its basic palette of primary colors, black and white, and its ability to convey solid concepts and ideas with such a limited, basic palette.


Featured in Out Loud* for two consecutive years at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Keomounmany finds the intersection of their identity and style, leaving questions about what can be done with their work and what can be created.


*Out Loud is a 12-week workshop exhibit program held by the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art which allows queer high school students to have an artistic platform to express themselves in a safe space while also helping them gain experience and teach them new methods and techniques.

Why do you make art/design?

I make things to cope, as generic as that sounds. Being able to let out how I feel and what I’m thinking on a canvas or artboard allows me to navigate and understand my experiences better.


Growing up, I was a little lonely; other than family, I never really talked to anyone at school. But, there was never a moment where colored pencils and a crappy little set of watercolors weren’t there for me.


I’ve always had such a fascination with colors and how colors worked– red and blue make purple, blule and yellow make green; red, with a little bit of white? Now you have pink at your hands. I still don’t know what it is, but something about this whole concept of mixing colors together together to make new colors was such an amazing thing to me.


Other than making art to cope, I also enjoy seeing the final product that I have at the end of the process. It makes me remember that I am human, and that this thing that I have made is… my own. The warm, complete feeling that I get when I finish something is irreplicable, and I love it.


I’m not proud of everything I make; sometimes I make something and it’s kind of ugly. But that’s okay! Through revision and experiementation, I learn as I go and make it work for me. I can reflect and always come back to it another day, and make it better, or start something completely new!

What led you to do what you do today?

Throughout my life, I have always enjoyed making art as an outlet. The endless things I could make, and the endless colors I could make– it has always fascinated me.


I only really thought of pursuing a career in arts and media in high school. I needed an elective credit, so I decided to take this Digital Media class. It taught me how design works, and how to use various design software, and the rest is history. I learned how to use art in a more industrial manner, and in a way I can use it to help others, and possibly even turn this into a job for me, instead of a hobby.


It goes without saying that, I loved that class. Here I stand, three-ish years later at the time of writing, thousands of dollars deep into supplies and a nice computer, I’m still here, hunched over said computer, still making things like this.