Nataly Lee is an Cambodian–Australian multidisciplinary artist working across photography, painting, installation, and moving image. 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. This early experience of displacement continues to inform her work.

Through field-based research and image-making, Lee explores memory, migration, and cultural inheritance, focusing on how histories of movement and survival are carried through landscapes, materials, and everyday life. Living between cultures and geographies continues to shape her perspective, drawing her practice toward questions of belonging, inheritance, and the ways history persists within place and lived experience.

Her work often develops through long-term engagement with place, combining observation, research, and fieldwork. Spending extended periods in specific environments allows her to work slowly and attentively, observing the subtle ways histories remain embedded within landscapes, people, and daily life.

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Shifting landscapes, Treeline Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia

2025 The 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

2026 When 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

RESIDENCIES

2025, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops Residency, Siem Reap, Cambodia

PRESS

2025 Art & Market

EDUCATION

2024 Graduate Certificate of Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art, Australia