Kristin Witbeck Lee (Ganä:gah:is)

Seneca (Onödowá'ga) artist · Beaver Clan · Seneca (Onödowá'ga) descendant artist Lancaster, PA · kristin@splashingwaters.com · @kristin.w.lee

Awards & Honors

  • 2026 · Honorable Mention, Fine Art 2D, for Mother of Peace · Hodinöhsö:ni' Art Show, Ganondagan State Historic Site, Seneca Art & Culture Center, Victor, NY
  • 2025 · Fourth Place / Honorable Mention · Chambersburg Plein Air, Chambersburg, PA · Juror: Brienne Browne
  • 2025 · Honorable Mention · All'Aperto Quick Draw, Mt. Gretna School of Art, Lititz, PA · Juror: Dorothy Frey
  • 1992 · Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for the most outstanding senior honors thesis, Connecticut College (Something Impossible, poems)

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2026 · Orenda: Seneca Art & Magic · U Gallery, Lancaster Art Vault, Lancaster, PA (Oct 2 – Nov 28)
  • 2026 · Solo exhibition · Willow Valley Cultural Center, Lancaster, PA (Oct – Nov)
  • 2025 · Ascension · Lancaster Art Vault, Lancaster, PA

Selected Juried & Group Exhibitions

  • 2026 · 11th Annual Plein Air Plus · Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ · one of 50 painters selected by Peter Trippi, Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur
  • 2026 · Hodinöhsö:ni' Art Show (juried) · Ganondagan, Seneca Art & Culture Center, Victor, NY · Honorable Mention
  • 2026 · Lancaster Art Vault at the Pennsylvania State Capitol · Lower Rotunda, Harrisburg, PA
  • 2026 · Philadelphia Watercolor Society Members' Exhibition (online)
  • 2025 · Hodinöhsö:ni' Art Show (juried) · Ganondagan, Victor, NY
  • 2024 · All Art+: Earth to Sky and The Human Condition · Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2024 · River Towns Plein Air Festival (juried) · Marietta, PA
  • 2023 · Hodinöhsö:ni' Art Show (juried) · Ganondagan, Victor, NY

Press

  • 2026 · George Cassidy Payne, "Making Haudenosaunee Peace Through Art," Life in the Finger Lakes, April 2, 2026
  • 2026 · George Payne, essay on Hodinöhsö:ni' art as a living practice of peace, Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art publication (June)

Education

  • BA, English and Studio Art, Connecticut College
  • MFA, Creative Writing, Bennington College
  • Ongoing advanced study in drawing and painting (classical Russian tradition), Bridgeview School of Fine Arts, New York, NY

Writing

  • 1991 · Connecticut Student Poet, Connecticut Poetry Circuit (reading tour of Connecticut colleges)
  • Poems published in Western Humanities Review and the Columbia University Journal of Arts and Literature

Collections

  • Private collections in New York City, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Massachusetts and New Zealand