Karilee Fuglem's work takes the form of installations, drawings, photographs and artist books, through which she explores visual subtlety as a key to embodied perception. In recent years, her work has explored architectural space, light, and air movement as integral elements of sensory and ineffable works. She seeks to make visible aspects of an environment that are typically hidden or unnoticed.
Raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, Fuglem has lived in Montreal since 1989, and frequently travels back and forth between her two "homelands." She has presented solo across Canada, notably at the Darling Foundry (Montreal), the Koffler Gallery (Toronto), Oakville Galleries (Oakville, Ontario), Centre d'art Expression (Ste-Hyacinthe), Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George, BC) and in numerous group exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Canada (2007), the Musée des beaux-arts du Québec (2016), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1997) and the Biennale de Montréal (1998 and 2011).
Her work can be found in the collections of the Musée d'art contemporain, the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, the National Gallery of Canada, The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, BMO, Bennett Jones LLP among others.