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
The Transcendence Labyrinth of Idols, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
The Generation Of The Hyperreal, Pah Homestead, Auckland, New Zealand
2021
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
'In Touch', Asia New Zealand Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand
'Inhuman Transaction', George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
'Art in the City - Urban Walls', Te Waihorotiu Station (Aotea), Auckland, New Zealand
'Transcending Bodies', PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery, Griffith ACT, Australia
2021
'Cruel Optimism: New Artists Show 2021', Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand
'Spirit Ether', Window Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2020
'Ratatouille' by Fluid Borders, Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand
'Free Of Charge', Meanwhile Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2019
'TERMINAL', Sosâge Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
'Eden Arts Awards', Webb’s, Auckland, New Zealand
'The Last Meninas', Pearce Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Activity ANd Awards
2021
Simon Devitt Prize for Photography 2021 finalist
2019
Whitecliffe College Of Arts And Design-Photo Media Prize 2019
Eden Arts Trust Art Awards 2019 finalist