Artist Statement

Lisa Chang Lee is an artist, researcher and educator living and working between London and Beijing. Her interdisciplinary practice moves across sound, moving image, installation, performance, print and artists’ books. Through these forms, she examines the relationships between ecology, language, memory and technology, approaching landscape as a living record shaped by human and more-than-human histories.

Her recent projects explore disappearance, acts of listening, and the tensions between modernity and inherited forms of knowledge. Drawing on field research, archival materials and site-responsive processes, Lee considers how voices, myths and environmental sounds carry cultural memory. Her research in Hainan engages with local sonic traditions and the effects of social and ecological change, asking how attentive listening might reveal relationships between place, identity and collective experience.

Lee studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and received her MA from the Royal College of Art in London. She is a Lecturer in MA Photography at the Royal College of Art and a Visiting Lecturer in MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in collections including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum.

Biography

Lisa Chang Lee 李昶 is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator living and working between London and Beijing. Her practice spans moving image, installation, performance, print, and artists’ books, exploring how image-making mediates memory, absence, ecology, and the unstable relationship between human experience and technological systems.

Lee studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London. She is a Lecturer in MA Photography at the Royal College of Art and a Visiting Lecturer in MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Her recent and forthcoming exhibitions include the Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennale, Shenzhen International Museum of Art (2026/27); Guangdong Image Triennale, Guangzhou Museum of Contemporary Art(2025/26); Where the Sea Reaches, Suzhou Art Museum(2025) and Art and the Book, Warburg Institute, London(2025). Her work has also been presented at the Power Station of Art, Chengdu Biennale, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, amongst others.

Lee’s work is held in collections including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum. She received the Printmaking Today Prize in 2022 and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Prize in 2016.