Lee Anne Schmitt (Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1971) is a Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker interested in political thought and personal experience. Much of her work involves 16mm filmmaking of landscape, objects, and the traces of political systems left upon them. Her projects have addressed American exceptionalism, the logic of utility and labor, gestures of kindness and refusal, racial violence, cowboyism, trauma and narrative, and the efficacy of solitude. She has a strong track record of showing at venues including MoMA NY, the Getty Museum, RedCat Theatre, Northwest Film Society, Centre Pompidou, and festivals such as Viennale, CPH/DOX, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, BAFICI, and FID Marseille. Schmitt was recently awarded the Graham Foundation Grant and the Creative Capital Award.