Joanne Lee is an artist based in San Francisco. With her dyed Hanji (Korean paper), she has exhibited at a large number of exhibitions and art fairs in many different countries such as Korea, Japan, China, Hongkong, Singapore, Germany, Italy, and the US.

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She was captivated by Korean paper, Hanji, and its dying techniques with natural pigments when she studied art in high school. Because of its soft and warm texture, Hanji has its own unique and special visuality. Since then, she has been only using hand-made Hanji even though Hanji is so sensitive that it requires many times of preparatory work before main coloring. For each of her pieces, she dyes the paper multiple times with a mixture of natural pigment with animal glue. Through this repeated coloring, she can express the inherent color of the pigments effectively.

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The main theme of her art is about memory and time lapse. Empty chairs used to be her main objects in her works in her early career. Empty space on the chairs is where we can find our memories of the past. Each trace on her works is a piece of memory, and the collection of those memories forms certain objects such as chairs. In her later works, she represents the collection of memories itself rather than certain objects. With her coloring technique on Hanji, she represents the accumulation of memories in certain feelings with corresponding color combinations of her own.