Christina A. Lee
Biography
Christina Lee is a Korean-American illustrator and designer based in Brooklyn, NY by way of San Jose, CA and Pittsburgh, PA. She is a co-founder of Pullproof Studio, a community screenprinting studio, and Alright Editions, a small press. Energetic mark making, concise compositions, and colorful subjects define her prints, zines, animations, and comics.
Lee's work has been featured by Hyperallergic, i-D Magazine, The Fader, Public Books, The Comics Journal, and Solrad, and recognized by the Society of Illustrators and American Illustration. She has exhibited at LUSTR Festival, Comic Arts Brooklyn, Small Press Expo, and Short Run Comix Festival. Recently, she was a designer at Vice, producing editorial creative for Refinery29.
Lee earned a BFA in Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA in Illustration from FIT.
Selected Publications
“The Complicated Feminist Legacy of Underground Comix,” The Comics Journal. July 2, 2025.
“Margaret Cho on Asians Behaving Badly,” Refinery29. June 1, 2021.
“Oskar Fischinger, The Father Of Visual Music,” Vice. June 25, 2012.
Conferences and Presentations
OFFSET, Adobe Live, New York, NY, 2024
Panelist, Get Out The Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote, ICA Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2020
Panelist, Art in Context: Women’s Work, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2020
Exhibitions
Small Press Expo, Bethesda, MD, 2025
Lustr 11 Illustration and Comic Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, 2024
Press Play, Pioneer Works, New York, NY, 2024
Short Run Comix Festival, Seattle, WA, 2024
Comic Arts Brooklyn, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Awards
MoCCA Award of Excellence, 2025
Booooooom Illustration Awards, 2024
American Illustration
Society of Illustrators
Artist-in-Residence, 2016, Printed Matter / Ace Hotel
Selected Clients
Penguin Books, Starface, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, American Greetings, Converse, Aerie, The Carnegie Museum of Art, L’Oreal
Courses
- IL 162 Illustration Process II
- IL 262 Pictorial Problem Solving