[4] As an adolescent and young adult, Lee-Nova had several hero figures, both writers: the American William S. Burroughs, and the Canadian Marshall McLuhan.
[1] In 1968, he showed at the Vancouver Art Gallery with Michael Morris Prisma: an environment, described by reviewer Marguerite Pinney as a strange and curious summer house with programmed light, music and colour.
[6] In Vancouver, he was a co-founder of the Image Bank (with Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov) and active in the Sound Gallery (circa 1965) and Intermedia (1967–1972).
[8] Lee-Nova continued to be a key figure on the West Coast Scene in the early 1970s, working with electronic media and film as well as painting and printmaking.
[8] In 2021 the Burnaby Art Gallery held a survey exhibition titled Gary Lee-Nova: Oblique Trajectories of his work, accompanied by a publication.