Lee Ann Paynter is an artist, activist and educator. She is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.F.A. in Studio Art. She holds an M.F.A. in Photography and Media from California Institute of the Arts. Serving over ten years at her alma matter the University of Kentucky, she is a Senior Lecturer of Photography, Video and Public Art in UK’s School of Art and Visual Studies. Her oeuvre consists of traditional and digital methods of photography, video, installation and art interventions. Lee Ann’s work takes on social and political issues investigating the ideas and agency around intolerance and acceptance, inequality, gender roles, and environmental issues, as well as the media’s role in those representations. Committed to social justice she has both an active socially engaged practice and an active exhibition schedule. Lee Ann’s work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally.
contact: lee.ann.paynter at uky.edu