Yiwen Li (b.1995, China) is an artist based in London. Her work navigates alternative world and psychology of religion, addressing the relationship between science and mysticism, technology and mythology, instrumental and value rationality. Using a variety mediums ranging from sculpture, painting to film and performance, she is interested in bridging the gap between eastern and western culture frameworks and the reconfiguration of reality.
Selected Exhibitions
Nexart at XYZ Gallery, 2024, London
The Universe Within at Copeland Gallery, 2024, London
Emotion Does Not Say I at Aimer Art, 2024, Beijing
Swimming Between Worlds at The Bakery Gallery, 2024, London
Time Has Burned at Willesden Gallery, 2024, London
Sonic Flows at Pushkin House, 2024, London
Welcome To The UK at Ugly Duck, 2024, London
Time Has Burned at The Take Courage Gallery, 2024, London
Pretty Doomed at Ugly Duck, 2023, London Jewel, Pearl at BUoY Arts Center, 2023,Tokyo
BEYOND at The Crypt Gallery, 2023, London
Slade Degree Show 2023 at Slade school of Fine Art, UCL, 2023, London
Air, and the Absent at Resource for London, 2023, London
Colour & Poetry A Symposium V, online exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, 2023, London
Squeeze at Barbican AGT, 2023, London Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, 2023, London
Pocket Trap Contemporary at Slade School of Fine Art, 2023, London
Liminal Cracks at SET Kensington, 2023, London
Objects of the Misanthropocene at UCL Octagon Gallery, 2023, London
Slade Interim show 2022 at UCL Slade School of Fine Art, 2022, London
Prelude to Space at Stokey Popup, 2022, London
Lambing Season Group show at Worlding Project , 2022, London
At the Edge of Safehouse at Safehouse1&2, 2022, London
Synthesis at The Tub Gallery, 2022, London,UK
Rhyme of Memory Degree show at CAFA Art Museum, 2020, Beijing
The Summer of Steel at China Taiyuan international metal sculpture camp, Taiyuan
Curating
NEXART Supermarket: Christmas market at XYZ Gallery, December 2024, London
NEXART Supermarket at Indra Studio, April 2024, London
BEYOND at The Crypt Gallery, July 2023, London
Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, March 2023, London
Liminal Cracks at SET Kensington, January 2023, London
Prelude To Space at Stokey Popup, September 2022, London
NEXART Supermarket at Indra Studio, April 2024, London
BEYOND at The Crypt Gallery, July 2023, London
Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, March 2023, London
Liminal Cracks at SET Kensington, January 2023, London
Prelude To Space at Stokey Popup, September 2022, London
Education
UCL Slade School of Fine Art, MFA, 2023
China Central Academy of Fine Arts, BFA, 2020
École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole, exchange program, 2019