Lindy Lee AO (b. 1954) is one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists. Lee draws on her Australian and Chinese heritage to investigate selfhood and explore the experiences of loss and transition from China to Australia in her innovative and unique works. Born in Brisbane, she completed a diploma at the Kelvin Grove School of Art Education before going to London to study at the Chelsea School of Art in 1979. Having gained further qualifications at the Sydney College of the Arts, she held her first solo exhibition in 1985 and since then has been exhibiting regularly. Her work, encompassing painting, multimedia and installation, has also featured in significant group shows in Australia and overseas and is represented in major Australian public and corporate collections. Lee gained a doctorate in art theory from the University of New South Wales in 2001, and was a senior lecturer in painting at the Sydney College of the Arts for over twenty years. A founding member of Gallery 4A in Sydney's Chinatown, she is a former trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, a former board member of Artspace and Australian Centre of Photography, as well as a former president of the Asian Australian Artists Association and former deputy chair of the Australia Council's Visual Arts and Craft Fund. In 2021 she held a major survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop.
