Cheryl HJ Lee is a Korean-born Canadian artist whose multidisciplinary practice blends painting, textiles, and storytelling to explore the shifting nature of memory, belonging, and everyday environments. Now based in Vancouver, Cheryl moved to Canada at the age of 16 and holds a Visual Arts degree from Emily Carr University, earned in 2016.
Her work is rooted in quiet, often overlooked moments—urban alleyways, domestic interiors, suburban shrubs—filtered through a visual language shaped by memory and subtle distortion. Through layered textures and interruptions of form, she creates compositions that feel both familiar and abstracted, inviting viewers to slow down, reorient, and reimagine their surroundings.
By combining flatness with dimensionality, gesture with control, her work reflects an ongoing interest in how environments shape emotional experience. Her visual language is marked by contrasts: softness and structure, light and shadow, clarity and ambiguity. The result is a body of work that occupies the in-between—evoking presence while leaving space for interpretation.