Lea Embeli (b.1994. Pančevo, Serbia) is a painter, illustrator and concept artist. She graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade in the Department of Applied Painting, where she also completed her MA studies. During her studies, she was awarded multiple scholarships such as the scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, as well as the Dositej scholarship from the Foundation for Young Talents.  She is the winner of the Aleksandar Tomašević Award for academic success, the ULUPUDS award in the field of applied painting, and the Vučković award for young artists from her hometown, Pančevo. In 2021, she received the MEXT Japanese government scholarship for research at the University of Art in Tokyo in oil painting, where she continued to be a regular student working on her second MA since April 2023.

Apart from painting, in 2016 she began to illustrate books for ”Zavod”, “Bigz”, and “Kreativni centar” as well as the French publisher “Fleurus” . She has also worked in animation as a character designer and concept artist for studios such as ToBlink Studios and Bunker from Serbia and Animoon Studios from Poland. She has also worked at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, as a teaching assistant in the subject of painting techniques.