Sandee McGee was born in San Francisco, California in 1971. She received her BA in Studio Art from Mills College where she was the recipient of the Ralph DuCasse Award for Excellence in Art. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2010. McGee has exhibited across the US including shows at In Site Gallery in Vermont, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles and The California Center for the Arts in San Diego.

Her work has been published in an exhibition catalog which has been collected by the Brooklyn Museum Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library and the Aukland Museum Library in New Zealand. In 2016 and 2018, McGee received Ford Family Golden Spot Awards for Djerassi and Playa Artist residency programs. Sandee was accepted to the Vermont Studio Center’s Artist Residency Program. She was the Interim Executive Director and the Gallery Director at Umpqua Valley Arts in Roseburg, Oregon. She now resides near her family in Ventura County in Southern California.