Lisa McKenna

Lisa McKenna is a digital collage artist, graphic designer, instructor and founder of Rebel Art Lab, a thriving online community for artists ready to ditch the rules and make unforgettable art.

With 35 years in graphic design and two decades leading a Boston agency, she knows how to tell a visual story. In 2020, during the pandemic, she picked up her "digital scissors" on a dusty iPad and found her real voice, turning a survival tool into an artistic rebirth and gaining international exposure within two years.

Her work is unmistakably hers: surreal digital collages that flip the script on mid-century women in advertising, sourced from vintage imagery and rebuilt into something that makes you look twice. That work has been displayed in Times Square, London's Tube, and in Paris, Belgium, and Art Basel Miami. She was named one of 100 Artists to Watch in 2024 by jurors from Christie's and MoMA, and featured in actress Justine Bateman's Smarty Pants Women blog for reinventing her career midlife.

Today, Lisa teaches digital collage through Rebel Art Lab, using Adobe Express to make digital art approachable and genuinely fun. She's helped over 2,000 artists find their creative voice using free, accessible tools, and writes the Rebel Art Lab newsletter, weekly fuel for creatives ready to blow up the rulebook.

Lisa lives on Boston's North Shore with her husband, a mini-adult son, and Banjo, her scruffy Bichon office mate.