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