CV
Education
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ), current PhD
Pratt Institute MFA Digital Art
/Interactive Art
Silver Braids and Pratt Circle Awards
School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, BFA
SAIC Merit
Scholarship Awarded
Film/Video/Animation/New media
University of
Edinburgh, BFA Illustration (transferred)
Solo Exhibition
2025
Contactless Contact, Redbase Gallery, Sydney
2024
I Tell the Moon My Secret and the Moon Tells Me Yours, See+ Gallery, Shenzhen
2023
Me or Agency? Horschamps Art Space, Wuhan
2022
(Dual)
Artificial Enlightenment, EDA
Space, Shenzhen
2020
Only My Hair Has Been Able to Get Free, Latitude Gallery, NYC, NY
Group Exhibition
2026
Symbiotic Signals, Entangled Perceptions and Algorithms, Qingsheng Pilot Zone Exhibition Center, Guangzhou
2025
Care in the Code, Bankstown Arts Center, Sydney, Australia
The Spinning Prism:
Multiple Spectra of Female Identity, Zhi Art Museum, Shenzhen
AI, as Seen at the End
of Ownership, Times Museum, Guangzhou
2024
Jinan International Biennale: the Age of Human Wisdom, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China
The Theater of Mimicry, Central Art Museum, Hangzhou
SIGGRAPH 2024 Art Gallery, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
16th ACM Conference on Creativity &
Cognition, Brideport Art Center, Chicago, IL
18th International
Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Cork, Ireland
2023
Nomads in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Dampness and Constellations, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen
1st seeD Pilot Project Exhibition, Creative Innovation Center, Shenzhen
Art Shenzhen, Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition
Center, Shenzhen
Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2023, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
Resilience, Wuhan K11,Wuhan
JingArt, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing
Multi Universes, BMW Experience Shanghai, Shanghai
2022
Earth Heat Flow: the Visitor Who Returns To Solar Time, 2022
Beijing Biennial “Symbiosis”, Friendship Art Community, Beijing
Communication Through Art- Wuhan
Biennale 2022, Wuhan Art Museum(Qintai), Wuhan
Soft Feelers, Song Art Museum, Beijing
A Movable Feast, By Art Matters Contemporary Art
Museum, Hangzhou
Simulacra, Venice
Arsenale Capannone
Peekskill Film Festival, Peekskill, NY
2021
Art Nova 100
Annual Exhibition, Guardian Art Center, Beijing
The World Beyond the World, Rongyi Art Museum, Shanghai
NFT Space Refactoring, Shanghai World Financial Center Yunjian Art Museum, Shanghai
Do Not Black Out, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Yellow Box Open Exhibition, Yellowbox Art Museum, Qingdao
New Youth 16th Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
Chuanliu –
Greater Bay Area Art Exchange Activities, New-Who Art Museum, Shenzhen
Shanghai Fosun Foundation Art Residency 2021, Annex Space, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
Reconstruction of Space, Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen
Postwave Art
Festival, GuoFeng Art Museum, Shenzhen
International Kansa Video Festival, Kansa, Russia
Der Digitale Schwarm, NFT show, CryptoVoxel/ Chijin
Wish We Were Here, Pratt Manhattan gallery, Manhattan, NY
The Key of Wasteland, V.C Gallery, Shenzhen, China
Simulacra, XIME Space, Shanghai, China
Regardless the West or the East, Shenzhen Oriental Art Gallery, Shenzhen, China
No Theater
Screening, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China/Yell Space, Shanghai, China
2020
Hibernation, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
Uncertainty, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
No Theater × SO，Shenzhen,China
No Theater × 3SYZYGY，Shenzhen, China
No Theater × 白灼观影，Xiamen,China
Videos For Uncertain Times, Straight Through The Wall, NY
2019
Shenzhen City
Light Show, Shenzhen Citizen Center, Shenzhen, China
Straight Through
the Wall, New York City, NY
Cyfest-12, International Media Art Festival, St.Petersburg, Russia
Interactive Studio: New Works, DDA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
MoveMe, DDA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
CYFEST -12: ID –E.V.O.D.E.V.O.R.E.V.O. The Made in NY Media Center by IFP, Brooklyn, NY
Inhuman Art, Screen Saver
Gallery
Fake/Reality Daedalus Project
Multimedia Art Festival, Mykonos, Greece
ExFest 2018, Chicago, IL
I cant even, No One Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Algomotion, SAIC
Flex Space, Chicago, IL
Four, oh Four,
Columbus Site Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mutuality, HK-SZ Design Twin-Cities, Shenzhen UCCN Exchange Cnter, Shenzhen, China
2017
Blow the Wind, Ningbo, China
Room Seventeen: The
Beauty of the Baud, Panther Modern Gallery
Tiansheng
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Art, Shenzhen Fine Art
Institute, China
Simulacrum Living, Shenzhen Art
Museum, China
Awards/Residency
2022
YAV Nomination Award, YAV International Youth Arts Platform
2022
A Movable Feast Residency Program, By Art Matters Contemporary Art
Museum, Hangzhou
2021
CAC://DKU 2021 Research/Creation Fellowship, by Chronus Art Center (CAC)
& Duke Kunshan University
2021 Emerging Sci-Tech Artist Awards - Perfomance Based, Raiden INST
2021 Zhenro Foundation Fuzhou Artist Residency Program
2021 Pratt
Digital Arts Outstanding Merit, NYC
2021 Fosun Foundation Art Residency 2021 Season 1, Shanghai
2021 Digital Artist Residency (DAR)
2021 BCA & Kusama Network Awards longlisted, BCA, Beijing
2021 Emerging Sci-Tech Artist Awards, Raiden INST, Shanghai
2020 Silver Braids and Pratt Circle Awards, Pratt Insitute, NYC
2020 TOP 100 New Star Art Award,
MoCA STAR
2016 SAIC Merit Scholarship Award, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago
Teaching
2022-2023 full-time Lecturer at Art and Technology, School of Innovation and Design, Shenzhen Technology University
Publication
Deborah Turnbull Tillman and Zoe Qi-Jing Li. 2026. On Creative Research: The Lab as Gallery/the
Gallery as Lab. In Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices, B. J. Dunstan, J. T. K. V. Koh, and H.
Samani (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 16404. Springer, Cham, 153–167.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15501-6_9
Zoe Qi-Jing Li, Wenzong Ma, Yufan Li, and Varvara Guljajeva. 2025. Moon vs. Live-Streaming Moon:
Navigating the Challenges of Presenting Post-Anthropocentric Art in Museums. In Proceedings of the Conference
on Animation and Interactive Art (Expanded ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA,
50–55. https://doi.org/10.1145/3749893.3749958
Zoe Qi-Jing Li. 2024. I Tell the Moon My Secrets and the Moon Tells Me Yours. In ACM SIGGRAPH
2024 Art Gallery. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 05, 1–2.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3641523.3665171
Zoe Qi-Jing Li. 2024. Reimagining Anthropomorphism: Artistic Explorations in Humanizing Machines.
Artist Talk. In Proceedings of ISEA 2024: The 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art.
Zoe Qi-Jing Li, Yufan Li, and Varvara Guljajeva. 2024. A Synergistic Connection: I Tell the Moon My
Secret and the Moon Tells Me Yours. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition.
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 583–586. https://doi.org/10.1145/3635636.3660501
Zoe Qi-Jing Li and Varvara Guljajeva. 2024. Unwilling Author: Exploring Anthropomorphic Rebellion of
the Diary Writing Machine. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and
Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 103, 1–4.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3635329
Zoe Li. 2021. Comb Machine: The Regulation of Hair. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on
Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2021). Retrieved from https://2021.xcoax.org/zli/
Language
Chinese,
Cantonese, English