Artist Statement

Alexis Lee is an American artist whose practice explores the intersections of mythology, folklore, superstition, and the collective and personal unconscious. Drawing upon archetypal narratives, ritual traditions, and symbolic imagery, her work examines the ways inherited beliefs and intimate memories shape individual and cultural identity.

Lee studied at Cornell University before completing her postgraduate education at the Royal College of Art in London. Her multidisciplinary practice navigates the space between the familiar and the uncanny, weaving together historical mythologies with contemporary psychological inquiry. Through layered visual languages, she investigates the enduring power of stories, symbols, and superstitions to reveal hidden structures of desire, fear, transformation, and belonging.

By blurring the boundaries between the ancient and the personal, Lee creates works that invite contemplation of the unconscious forces that continue to inform our perceptions of reality. Her practice is rooted in an ongoing dialogue between collective myth and lived experience, offering spaces where memory, imagination, and cultural inheritance converge.