Lily Martina Lee (b. 1985 Pullman, Washington) is an artist exploring how unsolved crimes shape our cultural imagination and regional identity through analytical research, materiality and visual abstraction. Working in handweaving, hand-dyeing, metal fabrication and mixed media Lee conceptually positions her work as an intervention to retroactively create structures of evidence and protection.

Lee has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at venues that include AIR Gallery in Altrincham, United Kingdom; Platforma das Artes e da Criatividade in Guimarães, Portugal; Textile Arts Factory in Thessaloniki, Greece; Tacoma Art Museum; Boise Art Museum; Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea, New York; Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle and ARC Gallery in Chicago. She completed residencies at Fountainhead Residency in Miami and TwispWorks in Twisp, Washington.

Her work has been written about in the Reno Gazette Journal, Oly Arts, Elko Daily Free Press, Boise Weekly, Idaho Press Tribune and discussed in podcasts including Fresh Art International and The Deck.

Lily received her BFA in Fibers with a BA in American Indian Studies and an Anthropology minor from the University of Washington, and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Oregon. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. She is a member of the Handweaver’s Guild of Boise Valley and serves as the Idaho and Oregon Area Director for Doe Network, a nonprofit organization that assists law enforcement in cold cases of missing persons and unidentified human remains.