Yiwen Li (b.1995, China) is an artist and curator based in London. Her work navigates alternative world and psychology of religion, addressing the relationship between science and mysticism, technology and magic, instrumental and value rationality. Using a variety mediums ranging from sculpture and painting to video, film and performance, she is interested in bridging the gap between eastern and western culture frameworks and the reconfiguration of reality.
Selected Exhibitions
BEYOND at The Crypt Gallery, July 2023, London UK
Slade Degree Show 2023 at Slade school of Fine Art, UCL, June 2023, London UK
Air, and the Absent at Resource for London, May 2023, London UK
Colour & Poetry A Symposium V, online exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, March 2023, London UK
Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, March 2023, London UK
Pretty Doomed at Ugly Duck, 13-15 October 2023, Tokyo
Jewel, Pearl at BUoY Arts Center, 18th August-20th August 2023,Tokyo
BEYOND at The Crypt Gallery, July 2023, London UK
Slade Degree Show 2023 at Slade school of Fine Art, UCL, June 2023, London UK
Air, and the Absent at Resource for London, May 2023, London UK
Colour & Poetry A Symposium V, online exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, March 2023, London UK
Squeeze at Barbican AGT, March 2023, London UK
Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, March 2023, London UK
Pocket Trap Contemporary at Slade School of Fine Art, Feb 2023, London UK
Liminal Cracks at SET Kensington, Jan 2023, London UK
Objects of the Misanthropocene at UCL Octagon Gallery, September 2022 – February 2023, London UK
Slade Interim show 2022 at UCL Slade School of Fine Art, October 2022, London,UK
Prelude to Space at Stokey Popup, September 2022, London,UK
Lambing Season Group show at Worlding Project , May 2022, London,UK
At the Edge of Safehouse at Safehouse1&2, May 2022, London,UK
Synthesis at The Tub Gallery, April 2022, London,UK
Rhyme of Memory Degree show at CAFA Art Museum, June 2020, Beijing,China
The Summer of Steel at China Taiyuan international metal sculpture camp , August 2018, Taiyuan,China
Gift Group Performanceat at Qihao Xingye Beijing, June 2017, Beijing,China
Group exhibition at China central academy of fine arts sculpture department exhibition space, March 2016, Beijing,China
Curating
BEYOND at The Crypt Gallery, July 2023, London UK
Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, March 2023, London UK
Liminal Cracks at SET Kensington, Jan 2023, London UK
Prelude To Space at Stokey Popup, September 2022, London,UK
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