About
In the UK 2025
Hi, I'm Lee Bishop, and this is the website for some of my visual arts projects, new and previous. You can learn about me and my work by scrolling down this page. Visit the contact page to get in touch, find me on social, and sign up for the email list. And if you like things a bit less serious and formal, try The Vault. Thanks for visiting.
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News
The travel and location update is that I will be in Cambodia until at least September of this year (2026). I'm a United States citizen and officially based there, but I've been traveling abroad since the summer of 2024. I'm very happy with where I am for the short-term future. Thank you, Siem Reap and the Kingdom of Wonder.
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In shop and sales news, I am offering custom print on demand orders here on the website and have opened a Big Cartel shop, which is a great platform for artists and small sellers. I'm also working on setting up an Etsy shop. *I am in the early stages of creating and adding items to shops as my schedule allows.*
I am moving towards offering originals for sale as well and will post updates here and on Bluesky.
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If you are local to Siem Reap, I am interested in exhibiting and selling original works or arranging for prints to be made here in town. Please feel free to contact me about any of these or other ideas.
Bio
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Born Lee Bishop Jenkins in Monroe, NC in 1966, Lee was raised moving from town to town in the state and then spent her teen years in Winston-Salem. She is based in the Western US and currently traveling abroad.
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Trained in traditional figurative styles of painting, drawing, and photography, Lee's more recent and current work focuses more on the experimental, abstract, and expressive. Her work in drawing, photography, and video / short film has been exhibited in the US and Europe.
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As a young person, Lee's art and crafts were exhibited and won awards, and in her teens she illustrated zines and created punk rock t-shirts. She has written about art and film for blogs, taught elementary school kids about art history and drawing, and led Meetup group drawing and film viewing field trips and discussions. She has also created, curated, and organized online projects of other artists' works.
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Her arts background also includes music, acting, and modeling.
In Thailand 2025
Statements
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"My practice for work and life sometimes involves detaching from mental processes and even emotion in order to allow a freely flowing and more natural experience for whatever comes up.​ This can result in some different types of abstract, minimal, or surreal work. I sometimes call work I do experimental or just experiments because that's what they were for me at the time or that is how they were categorized by others. If I were to choose a specific term for my art, I would consider a lot of it to be informel and often at least partly automatism."
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"My work does not include the use of AI except occasionally in some editing features such as background remover, erase, or grab which I sometimes use for experimental videos, digital art, or preparing print files. My drawing, painting, photography, and writing is otherwise AI-free and human produced."
Selected Group Shows / Screenings
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2010 Strasbourg International Film Festival, Strasbourg, France​
The Berlin International Directors Lounge, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
EgoFest, Franklin Arts Center Auditorium, Brainerd, MN
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2009 Abstracta: International Abstract Cinema Exhibition, Isola Del Cinema, Rome, Italy
ARKUFF: Arkansas Underground Film Festival, The Malco Theatre, Hot Springs National Park, AR
FIFE: The International Experimental Film Fesitval Carbunari, Florean Museum, Baia Mare, Romania
2008 Zero Film Festival, Studio 1636 and Downtown Independent, Los Angeles
OCULI Experimental Film Showcase, Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, NC
Town of Chapel Hill Community Art Project, Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro, NC
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1983 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Elliot Center at University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC
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Selected Honors
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2025 Honorable Mention, arthouse category, Absurd Film Festival Monthly Jury, Italy​​​
2008 Purple Heart Award, Zero Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
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1983 Gold Key, Scholastic Art Awards, NC (regional)​​​​​​
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