
Xi Li 李曦 (b.1997)
Xi Li (李曦) is an interdisciplinary artist from Harbin, China, based in Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand. She received a Bachelor of Photo Media from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in 2019 and was awarded the 2019 Whitecliffe Photo Media Prize. In 2021 she received Master of Fine Arts (with first class honours) at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. In the same year, 2021, Li was awarded the Iris Fisher Scholarship.
Xi Li's creative practice includes film, digital image, photography, installation, performance, 3D animation, VR, game design, music, and multidisciplinary fields. She explores various experimental concepts through Eastern and Western philosophical frameworks, with topics covering identity, ideology, subjectivity, subculture, popular culture, globalization, and more. Li is dedicated to capturing visual imagery in macroscopic thinking and subjective perception, constituting the expression of and challenge to that links theoretical research to artistic practice.
solo Exhibitions
2022 Prosperity or Emptiness, Masons Screen, Wellington, New Zealand
2022 The Transcendence Labyrinth of Idols, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
2022 The Generation of The Hyperreal, Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand
2021 Spirit Ether by Xi Li 李曦, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 The Unreliable Landscapes project, Unreliable landscapes, Online
2022 In Touch, Asia New Zealand Foundation, Online
2022 Inhuman Transaction, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2022 Art in the City - Urban Walls, Te Waihorotiu Station (Aotea), Auckland, New Zealand
2022 Transcending Bodies, PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery, Griffith ACT, Australia
2021 Cruel Optimism: New Artists Show 2021, Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand
2021 Spirit Ether, Window Gallery, Online
2020 Ratatouille by Fluid Borders, Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand
2020 Free Of Charge, Meanwhile Gallery, Online
2019 Terminal, Sosâge Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2019 Eden Arts Awards, Webb’s, Auckland, New Zealand
2019 The Last Meninas, Pearce Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Activity ANd Awards
2021 Simon Devitt Prize for Photography 2021 finalist
2021 Iris Fisher Scholarship 2021
2019 Whitecliffe College Of Arts And Design-Photo Media Prize 2019
2019 Eden Arts Trust Art Awards 2019 finalist