Xi Li (b. 1995 Suzhou, China) is an artist working in photography, video, and installation to examine the process of image-making and the construction of alternative narratives in contemporary media culture. She is drawn to how images shape, circulate, migrate, reproduce, and decay through media, culture, and history. To investigate and reflect on how images influence our perception of the world and ourselves, Li restores images from institutional archives, collective memories, and personal collections. She then reconstructs these images three-dimensionally in the studio, creating works that blur the boundaries between actual and fictive.
Xi Li has exhibited internationally at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, AMANITA, SARA’s, and Latitude Gallery in New York City, MadeIn Gallery in Shanghai, among others. She is a recipient of the Aperture 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund. Li earned an MFA in Photography from Yale School of Art, and now lives and works in New York.
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