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Kina Lee is a Los Angeles based artist and freelance illustrator whose work explores the emotional terrain we often leave unspoken. The terrain of grief, tension, resilience, and the quiet hope of repair. Drawing from both Western and Japanese visual influences, she creates illustrations, comics, and conceptual pieces that sit at the intersection of narrative design and surrealist atmosphere.

After working within the game industry for years, Kina returned to her original artistic path, one that challenges the boundaries of what’s considered “contemporary art.” Through a fusion of manga influenced aesthetics, visual development, and storytelling, she pushes back against long standing stigma and genre gatekeeping, creating hybrid works that feel both intimate and expansive.

Her work invites contradiction and she believes vulnerability is not weakness but material.