Assistant Professor, Painting + Drawing + Printmaking
Fields of Interest
Biography
Amanda Lee is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in printmaking, book arts, and photography. Her images and installations evoke a sense of poetic minimalism, inspired by sacred texts, transcendentalist paintings, and manuscripts. She creates art that investigates the intersection of Indigenous knowledge systems with print media and book art theory. Lee earned an MFA at Indiana University, Bloomington, and was the recipient of the inaugural Virginia A. Myers Visiting Assistant Professorship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa. Lee was an artist in residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Willapa Bay AIR. She has presented work internationally with several solo exhibitions at SG Gallery in Venice, Italy. An avid teacher, Lee previously held faculty positions at University of Minnesota, Utah State University, the University of Georgia, and University of Arkansas. She has been a visiting artist and taught workshops at Kent State University, Loyola Marymount University, the University of Alberta, and Penland School of Crafts. Lee has received several awards, including an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant. Lee is currently working on a public art commission for Seattle Public Utilities in partnership with the Office of Arts & Culture and is the curator of the 2025 Cimarron National Works on Paper at Oklahoma State University Museum of Art.