b. 1998, Johannesburg, South Africa
based in London, UK

EDUCATION

2017-2020 BA Fine Art (Hons) (Distinction), University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
2023-2025 MFA Scenography (Distinction), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNS

Hamlet, Set and Costume Design (theatre), 24 January 2026
Director Marcos Barbosa, Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro (Portugal)

Hamlet, Set and Costume Design (theatre), 12-23 November, 2025
Director Marcos Barbosa, Escola do Largo, Lisbon (Portugal)

Strangewife, Set Design (theatre), 21-23 July 2025
Director Frazier Bailey, Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London (UK)

Hamlet, Set and Costume Design (theatre), 17 April 2025
Director Marcos Barbosa, Teatro Municipal de Vila Real, Vila Real (Portugal)

Artists, Set and Costume Design (theatre), 28 February - 1 March 2025
Director Conor O’Cuinn, Camden People's Theatre, London (UK)

Katzenmusik, Set and Costume Design (theatre), 27- 30 December 2024
Director Philip J. Morris, Webber Douglas Studio, London (UK)

ASSOCIATE AND ASSISTING SET DESIGNS

Season 11, Scenographer (live festival), November 2025
The Centre For The Less Good Idea, Johannesburg (SA)

E.W.USIE, LONDON FASHION WEEK (fashion show), 22 September 2025
Fishdream Productions, 180 The Strand, London (UK)

Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, Assistant Set and Costume Design to Dick Bird (ballet), 2025-2027
The National Ballet of Japan, Tokyo (JP)

Magic Flute, Assistant Set and Costume Design to Dick Bird (theatre), 2025-2026
Protein Dance, (UK)

Private Lives, Assistant Set and Costume Design to Dick Bird (theatre), 2025-2026
Royal Exchange, Manchester (UK)

Gathered Leaves, Assistant Set and Costume Design to Dick Bird (theatre), 2025
The Park Theatre, London (UK)

WOMEX 24 Club Summit, Set Design (concert), 25 October, 2024
Performer D[Nowhere]J, Club Summit, O2 Ritz, Manchester (UK)

EXHIBITIONS

2026 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Vela Projects
2025 Mount Analogue, Group Show, Vela Projects, Cape Town
2024 𝘈 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦, Under Projects, Stockholm
2023 I hear you, w/Mankebe Seakgoe, BKHZ, Johannesburg
2023 Oh so quiet, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town
2023 Arthouse, FEDE x 200CENT, Barcelona
2023 FEDE, Ibiza
2023 Centre for the less good idea, Johannesburg
2023 Greener Bar Activation, Heineken and Formula E, Cape Town
2023 Entangled Intimacies, Group Show, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg
2023 Index, RMB x Latitudes Art Fair, Johannesburg
2023 Nirox, Johannesburg
2022 LIA, Leipzig
2022 If not now, then when?, Group Show, BKHZ, Johannesburg
2022 The Broken Umbrella, AVA, Cape Town
2022 The Broken Umbrella, KZNSA, Durban
2022 Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg
2022 FNB Art Fair, Johannesburg
2022 Latitudes, Johannesburg
2021 BMW GROUP, Johannesburg
2021 FNB Art Fair, Johannesburg
2021 Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg
2021 Tongues, The Gallery, Johannesburg
2021 Forms Gallery, Johannesburg
2021 SculptX, Johannesburg
2021 En(In)vision, Latitudes, Johannesburg
2021 Paper, Johannesburg
2021 Emergence, Johannesburg
2020 Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg
2020 纸, The Point of Order, Johannesburg
2020 New Work 2020, Graduation show, Johannesburg

RESIDENCIES

2022 LIA x Centre for the less good idea, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Bubblegum Club, Johannesburg

AWARDS

2023 Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Scholarship
2022 London School of Economics LEGACY ARTIST INSTALLATION COMPETITION Shortlist
2021 BMW GROUP ART PRIZE Commission
2021 Arts Threads x Gucci Global Design Graduate show
2020 Wits Young Artist Award Shortlist
2020 Anya Millman Scholarship
2020 Postgraduate Merit Award Scholarship
2020 Golden Key Honours Society

PRESS

Arthrob FNB Art Joburg: An Editor’s Diary

Goethe Institute Entangled Intimacies: art, more-than-human embodiment, and the climate catastrophe

BMW GROUP BMW Group Midrand Campus lends itself as a canvas for Wits School of Arts students. 纸(ZHI) by Tzung Hui Lauren Lee

DAVID KRUT African Leipzig

Connect Everything Collective Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee’s artistic and sartorial consciousness takes flight

University of The Witwatersrand Fine artists channel their creativity with BMW

Leipziger Volkszeitung Arrived: What artists from South Africa are planning in the Leipzig Spinnerei

LIA (Leipzig International Art Programme) Tzung-Hui Lauren Lee

TZUNG-HUI LAUREN LEE

SET DESIGN

FINE ART