Catherine Lee

Catherine Lee (born 1950 in Pampa, Texas) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. Her works, featuring repetitive forms in various materials, from stone to canvas, has been described as minimalist and structuralist.

Lee grew up in Pampa, Texas. She studied at San Jose State University in San Jose, California, where she earned a bachelor's degree in studio art in 1974.She lived in New York City for almost thirty years and returned to Texas in late 1990s, settling in the Hill Country near Austin.

Lee held her first solo exhibition in 1977 at the Duffy-Gibbs Gallery in New York City, and her work has been subsequently displayed in several public and private collections. A Los Angeles Times review of her 1988 solo exhibition at Michael Maloney Gallery describes her work as small, quirky wall pieces consisting of oddly shaped, individually colored or bronze elements that nestle closely together, often in a jigsaw fashion. In 2012, she was the featured artist of the West Texas Triangle, group of five art museums in western Texas. Her work Unica 39 (1987), an "abstract monotype in color", is a part of the permanent exhibition in the Tate Gallery.

Lee has taught at Princeton University (1980), Rochester Institute of Technology (1982), the University of Texas at San Antonio (1983) and (2000), and Columbia University (1986-1987).

• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Tate Gallery, London
• The Metropolitan Opera,
• Museum of Modern Art.

A list of Catherine Lee's exhibitions taken from the book Catherine Lee, the Alphabet Series and Other Works by the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery.