Chelsee Harris, a third-generation San Diegan, is a mixed media painter whose works echo the words her mother often said, encapsulating a childhood where the warm glow of the television became her companion, "The T.V. was her babysitter". That indoctrination resonates in her work to this day as she compares her paintings to dream sequences, memory, fantasy, and movie montages. Similar to a montage, the effect of simultaneity is constructed through the use of layering in oil, acrylic, colored pencil, and other drawing materials on a milky, semi-transparent paper where the front and back can be worked on in tandem. She employs collage-like techniques, but instead of cutting and pasting images, she hand-paints and draws her reference materials pulled from personal mementos, movies, television, music, pornography, and magazines. The painting and drawing techniques range from fast and loose to tightly rendered, which allows the paintings to tread the line of reality.

She attended Grossmont Community College and Humboldt State University, receiving a double Bachelor of Arts in studio art and art history with a certificate in museum and gallery practices. She is a recipient of the Martin Wong scholarship and the Ingrid Nickerson award for outstanding woman artist. Chelsee has worked periodically as a studio assistant for several artists in Humboldt and San Diego County. Chelsee returned home to San Diego late 2019 where she has maintained a studio either at home, a friend's garage, or even in the basement of a dying mall (pictured above).