Yen-Hua Lee was born in Taiwan. In 2002 she graduated from the National Art University of Taiwan. She received a Master of Arts from the University of Dallas in 2004 and she earned the MFA in 2007 from Northern Illinois University.

In her artworks Yen-Hua Lee explores how relationships among human body, mind and spirit within the space of home shape the memory of human life. Her work has been shown in Taiwan, China, Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom, Argentina, Canada, Mexico and U.S.A.