Her research focuses on late modernism and contemporary art, particularly the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
[1] She graduated from Yale College and from Harvard University.
Within this period, such artists as Bridget Riley, Carolee Schneemann, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol, and On Kawara pique her interest.
She “identifies an experience of time common to both [art and technology], and she calls this experience 'chronophobia'.” After studying Michael Fried's essay 'Art and Objecthood', she discovers that as time goes by, art starts to reflect the quickness of time.
Within her work, Lee references Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock.