Twenty years of telling stories through art
Illustrator and muralist Xee Reiter has spent the past two decades in Minnesota, drawing on her Hmong heritage and the neighborhoods around her. Murals, park signage, and published illustration make up the public-facing side of the work; a running sketchbook of nature studies and recipes makes up the rest.
Draft copy — Xee can refine the wording.
“visual record keeping”— how Xee describes her sketchbook practice
Drawing has always doubled as a personal archive — sketches that later resurface as murals, labels, and editorial work out in the world.
A working history
Hmong heritage, early sketchbooks
Drawing as a way of keeping a visual record — a habit that carries through every project since.
Twenty years and counting in Minnesota
Minneapolis–Saint Paul becomes home, and the starting point for most of the work that follows.
Wonderland, her first solo exterior mural
Painted for Creative Enterprise Zone at 809 Carleton Street in Saint Paul — dedicated to her child.
Museum, broadcast & publishing partnerships
The Saint Paul Mural Project with the Minnesota Museum of American Art, illustration for MPR and TPT’s Relish, and art for the picture book The Shared Room by Kao Kalia Yang.
The Grieving Wall
One of her largest solo murals to date, painted in the Northend neighborhood of Saint Paul.