about Warren Lee [art]

Warren Lee’s work explores the complexity and contradictions of our era. He investigates these polarisations to reveal irony, sometimes humour and hope, through painting, installation and video. This work presents concepts that convey cooperation, that highlight mutuality, and that show humanity as a part of the world, not apart from it.

After qualifying as an Architect and running Warren Lee Urban Design, he received the Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts and is completing the Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne). Warren has exhibited as finalist in competitions including Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize 2025, Aesthetica Art Prize long list (2024, 2025), Graduate Students Art Prize (2024, 2025), National Maritime Art Prize (2018), Glover Prize (2016), Sculpture by the Sea Bondi (2024, in collaboration with Lois Basham), as well as VCA exhibitions including Impetus (2025) and Apparatus (2024). His work received the Prime Minister’s Award for Urban Design (1995), for work undertaken by Brisbane City Council.

Warren Lee lives and works in Melbourne/Naarm and Byron Bay/Cavanbah. Peoples of the East Kulin and the Bundgelong Nations are acknowledged as the traditional custodians of this land, which has never been ceded.