Nataly Lee is a Cambodian multidisciplinary artist and emerging curator. Born in Battambang during the Cambodian civil war, her family fled the country when she was eleven months old and spent four years in refugee camps along the Thai–Cambodian border before resettling overseas. Returning to live and work in Cambodia as an adult has become an important part of both her life and practice, deepening her engagement with questions of memory, belonging, place and cultural inheritance.
Through research, fieldwork and image making, Lee explores memory, migration, spirituality and the ways histories continue to shape identity and everyday life. Her work often engages with landscape as a living archive, drawing together personal, cultural and collective narratives through painting, photography, installation and moving image.
Alongside her artistic practice, Lee’s curatorial work reflects a growing interest in exhibitions as spaces for storytelling, dialogue and cultural exchange. She is particularly interested in how exhibitions create relationships between artists, audiences, cultural heritage and contemporary practice, and how cultural narratives continue generating meaning across past, present and future contexts.
Nataly is currently based in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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In addition to her practice, Nataly is the founder and creative director of Saat Studio
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FORTHCOMING SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027 The Past is a Foreign Country, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Australia
2026 Snarm, The Condensary, Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Toogoolawah, Australia
FORTHCOMING GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Follow You Home, Grace Cossington Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2026 In Good Company, Online, curated by Harriet Links
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026Shifting landscapes, Treeline Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2025The Land is Never Still, the Water is Never Quiet, Grey Street Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2025 In Our Dreams We See the Sun, Treeline Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Gestures of Atmosphere, Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2026When I'm Gone, Bambu Stage, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2025 20th Angkor Photo Workshop Exhibition, International touring exhibition, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Surabaya, Bacolod, Makati, Bangkok, New York
2024 Second Rising, Grey Street Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2024 Untitled, Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane, Australia
2024 In Both Sides of Here, The Project Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
CURATED PROJECTS:
2026 Pithi: Objects of Ceremony, Co-curator, Koh Pich (Diamond Island City Hall), Phnom Penh, Cambodia
RESIDENCIES
2025, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops Residency, Siem Reap, Cambodia
PRESS
2025Art & Market
EDUCATION
2024 Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art, Australia
2011 Certificate IV in Graphic Design, Shillington College, Australia
2006 Bachelor of Arts, Griffith University, Australia