About

 

Chai Lee is a Singapore-based visual artist working with textiles, ceramics, and found materials. Through these mediums, she creates installations that explore memory, family, womanhood, and inherited expectations. She has received awards, including the Silver Prize in the Emerging Artist category at the 42nd UOB Painting of the Year and a Consolation Prize in the Eye of the Naturalist Illustration Contest. She has undertaken residencies at JurongHealth Campus and Studio Plesungan (Indonesia), and has exhibited at institutions such as NAFA galleries, University of the Arts London, National Gallery Singapore, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, and the Singapore Science Centre. Prior to her artistic practice, Chai Lee was trained in graphic design.