Chen Li

Chen Li, born in Ningbo, China in 1996, graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2018, and she earned her Master’s in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martin UAL. Now she lives and works in Shanghai.

Chen Li’s recent artworks are exploring the aesthetic of contradictions through Asian lacquer craft, ceramic art and mineral pigment painting as mediums. She interested in female narrative of modern context, Eastern mysterious aesthetic and the ‘irrational’ dimensions of social life under the modernization process. She wants to explore the clash or coexistence between mysticism and modernity, superstition and elite culture, intuition and reason in the current society to understand how it leads to a kind of aesthetic of contradictions as a continuous androgynous status.

Chen Li’s recent exhibitions include: Spring, Sprang, Sprung, Hunsand Space, Beijing,2024; De wereld Wat Met Handvat getemni Ik?, 798CUBE, Beijing, 2023; Motive and Narratiive Group, HdM Gallery, Beijing, 2023; Eight Precepts, Entrance Space, Zhengzhou, 2023; Escape of Light, Object Momento Gallery, Shanghai, 2023; “Art Nova 100”, Guardian Art Centre, Beijing, 2021; “Redirecting”, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, 2021; “Moving Past, Moving Closer”, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2020; Becomings, A.P.T Gallery, London, 2020; “Humming Out of Time”, Lux Gallery, London, 2019; “We Are Here We Are”, Apiary Studio, London, 2019.