Susie Lee is a visual artist and the CEO of Siren. Her work explores human connections through technology and has been commissioned and collected by numerous institutions including the Denver Art Museum, Mitchell Center for the Arts, Frye Art Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art. She has been recognized for a number of awards including Emerging Artist of the Year, Artist to Watch, and The Stranger Genius Award. A graduate of Yale, Columbia and UW with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, science education, and sculpture, Lee has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, CNN, The Stranger, GeekWire, ThinkProgress, Frieze, Engadget and will be presenting at TedX Rainier this fall.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking to connect with interesting people and stay in affordable and clean places while I'm running a start up and having all those start up-like meetings.

Interests

Contemporary art, literature, food, bourbon, urban density, strategic systems analyses.

• arts
• literature
• contemporary art
• education
• dining
• running
• technology
• teaching
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Bookforum, Marilynne Robinson, Jose Saramago...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Launched Siren, a social discovery app, as an artist jumping into the tech / start up world.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea