Bio

Ahree Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist working in video, new media, and textiles.

Lee received her B.A. from Yale University in English literature and a M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale School of Art, where she studied under Sheila de Bretteville.

Her many commissions include the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Irish Museum of Modern Art; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; the 01SJ Biennial; the International Short Film Festival in Leuven, Belgium; the International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca; and the Sundance Channel. Her Webby-nominated video Me was shown by Steve Jobs at the D5 tech conference, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York. Mecurrently has over 9 million views.

Lee’s awards include an artist residency at Santa Fe Art Institute; a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award nomination; an Artist Fellowship Grant in film and video from the state of Connecticut; and an artistic career development grant from Asian American Renaissance. Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Metropolis, and Fast Company.

Lee lives and works in Los Angeles with her daughter and husband, Nathan Melsted, an electronic musician, who composes musical scores for much of Lee’s work.