Chloé Lee is an award-winning artist and researcher whose work bridges installation, narrative research, and sensory experience to reflect lived histories and spatial memory. Using sound, video, haptic, and extended reality technologies, she creates place-based interactive works that explore personal and collective memories, realities, and futures. Her work integrates sensorial-based explorations, social practice, writing, and interviewing, often investigating where digital and analog worlds meet.
By September 2021, she had moved from New York City—a place she called home for ten years—and arrived in Berlin on a 10-month Fulbright Scholarship. Berlin is a place where its tumultuous history is transparently designed into its urban landscape, a context that deeply informed her work. As a 2021–2022 Germany Creative Arts Fulbright Scholar, she created the virtual reality exhibition, Temporal World which premiered internationally at SXSW in 2023, and has shown in festivals & exhibitions around the world, including the Art*VR Festival at DOX Contemporary in Prague & the 2023 European XR Awards in Brussels, where it was nominated for Best XR Experience.
Following her Fulbright, she continued her research as a member of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she explored the intersection of haptics, memory & virtual space.
In 2025, her interactive archive Reflections of Little Red Dot—exploring the lived experiences of people in Singapore’s rapidly changing urban landscape—earned the SXSW Jury Prize, GIFF Reflect d’Or for Best Immersive Experience & the independent film critics’ Bisato d’Oro Award for Best Immersive Experience at the Venice International Film Festival.
She is the co-founder & Artistic Director of Present Futures, a Berlin-based immersive media & software studio, which she co-leads with developer & creative technologist Lucas Martinic. Their latest project, Inter(mediate) Spaces, combines technological exploration & social practice, co-creating with others from the start to build new rules, visions & possibilities.
She received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College (CUNY), New York, & studied Film & Digital Media & Business Management & Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.