About

Karen Lee is a Sydney-based artist working at the intersection of digital and traditional media to create immersive 2D, 3D, and motion-based works. Her practice explores abstraction, sensory perception, and resonance—translating the invisible into visual form through the interplay of line, motion, photography, and animation. With a deep fascination for geometry and colour, Karen constructs visually compelling works.

Her work has been exhibited in both group exhibitions and public commissions. She has delivered projects for Woollahra, Willoughby, and Fairfield Councils, and has twice been named a finalist in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize (2023, 2024). In 2024, she exhibited at Sydney’s South by Southwest festival as part of a space-themed activation at NSW House and was recently featured in Woollahra Gallery’s 2025 Double Vision video program. She holds a Master’s degree from UNSW Art & Design (2019).

Her most recent work, One, is a three-minute video installation exploring the Earth-Moon relationship as a dynamic, rhythmic, and ancient system. Commissioned by Chatswood Artspace, the dual-screen installation layers live NASA footage from the ISS with drone and spacecraft imagery, animated vector lines, and custom Raspberry Pi hardware. One was selected for NSW House at SXSW Sydney 2024, featured in Double Vision, and named a finalist in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize 2024.

Karen’s practice is rooted in a desire to make the unseen felt—to capture the patterns, pulses, and connections that underlie both the natural and technological world.

She is also an art director. 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.

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