Lisa Mee is a contemporary Irish-Korean-American artist who lives and works in New York City. Her artistic journey began in childhood with studies in drawing, painting, and printmaking, which continued throughout her college years at Fordham University. Shortly after entering the university, she met her husband, the artist Wayne Ensrud, who became her lifelong artistic mentor. Ensrud, a protégé of the renowned Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, whose artistic lineage is associated with Gustav Klimt, encouraged and guided Mee’s painting explorations and experimentation until his passing in 2024.

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Mee’s art practice explores the intersection of color, memory, nature, and emotional experience. Working across painting, mixed media, landscape, abstraction, and figurative imagery, she transforms observed reality through saturated color, layered surfaces, intricate textures, and material experimentation. Her paintings move fluidly between recognition and abstraction, transforming landscapes, organic forms, and the human figure into emotionally resonant visual experiences. Luminous color and mosaic-like patterns create a distinctive stained-glass effect, while her intuitive approach to composition and use of both traditional and nontraditional materials lend each work a unique depth and vitality.

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Mee’s work has been exhibited in New York, Vermont, California, Florida, and internationally in France, Italy, and Spain. She has participated in more than 20 solo and group exhibitions, with her paintings presented in galleries across New York, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, West Palm Beach, and California. In March 2020, she presented her first solo exhibition at the International Art Museum of America in San Francisco. Her work has also been featured in international art publications, televised art broadcasts, juried programs, and professional panel discussions, and is held in numerous private and corporate collections.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PRESENTATIONS

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2026

Original ceramic designs with Morandi Studios in Italy

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2025
The Fine Art Auction Channel — Live Televised Artist Appearance

Hand-painted series on luxury Coach handbags 

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2023
Harmony For Humanity Global Consciousness Art Prize — Award Recipient
Colorium, Gallerium — Group Exhibition

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2022
The Fine Art Auction Channel — Live Televised Artist Appearance

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2021
International Art Museum of America, San Francisco — Women Artists Panel
AVC Fine Art Auction — Live Televised Artist Appearance

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2020
International Art Museum of America, San Francisco — Solo Exhibition

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2019
The Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida — Group Exhibition

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2015
Hudson Valley Finds Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York — Exhibition

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2014
Transform Gallery, New Rochelle, New York — Exhibition

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2013
Transform Gallery, New Rochelle, New York — Exhibition

ArtinNewYorkCity.com — Featured Artist

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2012
Indiewalls / Café Angelique, New York City — Solo Exhibition
Kashan Gallery, Nyack, New York — Exhibition

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2011
Designlawn Inaugural Exhibition, New York City
Artabound, New York City
High Line Open Studios, New York City

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2010
Great Neck Arts Center, New York — Come to Your Senses

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2007
Art Gotham, New York City — Square Foot Show
Ovation TV, New York City — Art or Not, Juried Selection

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2006
JH Brown Fine Art, Vermont — Exhibition

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AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

Harmony For Humanity Global Consciousness Art Prize — Award Recipient, 2023

Ovation TV — Art or Not — Juried Selection, 2007

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SELECTED PRESS & MEDIA

Kooness, Colorful Windows That Open to Nature — Featured Artist, February 2023

Observica Magazine — Featured Artist, November 2021

WELOVART International Art Magazine — Artist Q&A, 2021
Lisa Mee: Artiste Peintre Irlandaise-Coréenne-Américaine

Art Dealer Street — Lisa Mee Integrates Recycled Materials Into Her Art, April 2021

ArtinNewYorkCity.com — Featured Artist, January 2013

The Fine Art Auction Channel — Live Broadcast Artist Appearances, 2022, 2025

AVC Fine Art Auction — Live Broadcast Artist Appearance, 2021

 

SELECTED ONLINE FEATURES

Kooness
Colorful Windows That Open to Nature — 2023

WELOVART
Artist Q&A — 2021

Art Dealer Street
Lisa Mee Integrates Recycled Materials Into Her Art — 2021

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

International Art Museum of America, San Francisco — 2020

Indiewalls / Café Angelique, New York City — 2012

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Gallerium, Colorium — 2023
The Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida — 2019
Hudson Valley Finds Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York — 2015
Transform Gallery, New Rochelle, New York — 2013, 2014
Kashan Gallery, Nyack, New York — 2012
Designlawn, New York City — 2011
Artabound, New York City — 2011
High Line Open Studios, New York City — 2011
Great Neck Arts Center, New York — 2010
Art Gotham, New York City — 2007
JH Brown Fine Art, Vermont — 2006