About

Karen Lee is a Sydney-based art director and designer and exhibiting artist. In her commercial work, she specialises in developing concepts for branding projects. She has designed for the technology, space, and science industries, as well as for fashion and the arts.

In her artworks, as an abstract installation artist, she blends traditional and digital media to produce concept-driven 2D, 3D, and motion works. With a keen interest in exploring materials, vector lines, and geometric shapes, she creates visually engaging pieces that push the capabilities of digital technology as a creative tool. Karen completed a Master's degree at UNSW Art & Design in 2019, which helped her to merge her design background and skills with her passion for abstract expressionism.

Her work draws inspiration from diverse themes, ranging from biophilia and technology, to her Peranakan heritage set against her childhood growing up in Sydney. Karen has exhibited in numerous group shows across Australia and has received commissions from several local councils, including Woollahra, Willoughby, and Fairfield. She has also been a part of five group exhibitions at Chatswood Artspace on The Concourse, including a series reflecting on cultural transformation and the Lunar New Year in 2022, 2023, and 2024. In addition, she is a two-time finalist in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize (2023 and 2024).

Karen’s most recent work, One, is a 9-minute video installation that explores the interconnectedness of the Earth and Moon as a dynamic, rhythmic and ancient system. Commissioned by Chatswood Artspace in February 2024, the two-screen, Raspberry Pi-powered work composites NASA’s livestream of the Earth from the International Space Station, with drone and spacecraft footage of the Earth and Moon, overlaid with vector lines animations. One was featured at NSW House for SXSW Sydney 2024 and is part of the Woollahra Council’s Double Vision Video Program for 2024-25. It was also a finalist in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize 2024.

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