WAN LI is an artist based in Nanjing, China. This website will showcase her recent works.

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WAN LI, is an interdisciplinary artist based in China and an MFA graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). Her research-based practice moves across single- and multi-channel video, acoustic field recordings, speculative body prostheses, site-specific performance, and self-published artist books and zines. Her work examines spatial-temporal politics and geomorphic transformation, foregrounding feminine and marginal narratives that surface within rapidly modernizing landscapes. Deploying the body as a counter-decoder through performance and wearable prostheses, she transforms self-published media into mobile sites of social resistance.
Her site-specific research and installations have been commissioned by Qu Zhou Art Museum (KẺ GUĨ Project) and produced with the support of UFO Terminal (Loading... Project). Her works and self-published media have also been presented across institutions such as the CAFA Art Museum and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.
EDUCATION
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Video Art, 2022-2025
Nanjing University of the Arts, Bachelor of Digital Media Art, 2018-2022
EXHIBITION
2026, KẺ GUĨ, Qu Zhou Art Museum, Zhejiang, China
2026, Loading... Project, UFO Terminal, Tank 1, West Bund Tank Art Park, Shanghai, China
2025, Chasing the Light, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2024, Midpoint Plan, O2 Contemporary Youth Art Museum, Linyi, Shandong, China
2023, Vector Field, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2022, Internal and External Connection (Two-person show), Helan Mountain Tianlai Art Village, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
2022, Nanjing University of the Arts 520 Carnival, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2021, Suyuan Photography - Video Installation Art Exhibition, Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
PRINTED MEDIA & ZINES
2026
We Love Hong Kong, Does Hong Kong Love Us?, Self-published artist zine (Collaborative project with HX, MW, QW, YT). Distributed at postpost, Beijing, China.
Offcuts, Self-published zine. Produced in conjunction with the single-channel video project The Lute.
Score of Erasure, Self-published zine. Produced in conjunction with the two-channel video Score of Erasure.
2025
Broadside, Artist publication (newspaper format, edition of 100). Produced in conjunction with the four-channel video installation How Do We Loom and Be Seen.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT / PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS
2024
Xiaolong's 2-Yuan Shop, Participatory installation at Between Warm and Cold: Searching for the Color Temperature of Life (Curated Art Market), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China.
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