PATRICK LEE was born in 1969 in Butte, Montana and attended the Minneapolis College of Art & Design from 1988 to 1989.

He has had numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include such venues as the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Western Project, Los Angeles, CA; and Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York, NY.

Recent group exhibitions include: Really? A group exhibition curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California; “ B-B-B-BAD…an exhibition with attitudes,” Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY; “Drawing for the New Century,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; “Male,” Maureen Paley Gallery, London, UK; “do I know you,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; “Lush Life,” Salon 94, New York, NY; and “In the Darkness,” Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

His work may be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, W.V. and the Pizutti Collection, Columbus, Ohio.

Lee is the recipient of the 2016 Walter Gropius Master Artist Fellowship, The 2006 Peter S. Reed Foundation Achievement Award and the Nikon 2000 Grand Prize in 2000.

The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA