About
Karen Lee is a Sydney-based Australian-Singaporean visual and installation artist working across contemporary and cultural concepts through print, motion, digital and installation.
Her practice is grounded in colour, drawing on Masters research into Josef Albers and simultaneous contrast to create a subjective, sensory experience she calls "Colour Resonance," from video works to large-scale paper installations where twisted, hand-painted strips shift with the viewer's movement through space.
Her Peranakan heritage — a Chinese-Malay lineage passed through her mother and grandmother — runs through several bodies of work, including a 2023 Lunar New Year Festival installation of laser-cut forms built from family objects and photographs, and a recent silhouette series that layers those photographs with patterns drawn from shophouse facades, exploring how identity can be visible yet never fully readable.
Most recently, this interest in unseen dynamics has extended into space and orbital environments, with gestural drawings that trace invisible forces — gravity, flowfields, magnetic fields — where abstraction meets engineering precision.
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