
Yiwen Li
Yiwen’s work 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.
Yiwen Li CV
Education
2023 – UCL Slade School of Fine Art, MFA
2020 – China Central Academy of Fine Arts, BFA
2019 – École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole, Exchange Program
Exhibitions
2025
New Horizons with The Graduate Gallery at Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong
2024
Nexart at XYZ Gallery, London
The Universe Within at Copeland Gallery, London
Emotion Does Not Say I at Aimer Art, Beijing
Swimming Between Worlds at The Bakery Gallery, London
Time Has Burned at Willesden Gallery, London
Sonic Flows at Pushkin House, London
Welcome to The UK at Ugly Duck, London
Time Has Burned at The Take Courage Gallery, London
2023
Pretty Doomed at Ugly Duck, London
Jewel Pearl at BUoY Arts Center, Tokyo
Beyond at The Crypt Gallery, London
Air, and the Absent at Resource for London, London
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium V, online exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, London
Squeeze at Barbican Art Group Trust, London
Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, London
Liminal Cracks at SET Kensington, London
Objects of the Misanthropocene at UCL Octagon Gallery, London
2022
Prelude to Space at Stokey Popup, London
Lambing Season at Worlding Project, London
At the Edge of Safehouse at Safehouse1&2, London
Synthesis at The Tub Gallery, London
2020
Rhyme of Memory, Degree Show at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
Curating
December 2024
NEXART Supermarket: Christmas Market at XYZ Gallery, London
April 2024
NEXART Supermarket at Indra Studio, London
July 2023
BEYOND at The Crypt Gallery, London
March 2023
Frameless Contact at Old Brompton Gallery, London
January 2023
Liminal Cracks at SET Kensington, London
September 2022
Prelude To Space at Stokey Popup, London