Bio
Zoe Li is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in new media art, kinetic installations and interactive installations. She investigates the abstract roles of human beings in a technological world, exploring the position of “self” within a system, which might be its cultural and historical heritage, a virtual space, or the physical world.She presents these investigations in various forms:performance, video, installation, web-based media and interactive media.Her goal is to shift perspectives away from normality as well as to raise questions to the public. The viewer is confronted with questions regarding preconceived ideas and the superficial aesthetic we take for granted.
Born in China, Zoe studied at University of Edinburgh, UK and got her BFA at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago with a concentration on new media art. She obtained an MFA from Pratt Institute digital art program in 2020. She exhibited her project in venues such as Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art museum, The Made in NY Media Center by IFP, NYC, Straight Through the Wall, NYC, Fake/Reality Daedalus Project Multimedia Art Festival, Mykonos, Greece, Latitude Gallery, NYC.
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Education
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
Solo Exhibition
2022
(Dual)
Artificial Enlightenment, EDA
Space, Shenzhen
2020
Only My Hair Has Been Able to Get Free, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibition
2022
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
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 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Austria
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
Language
Chinese,
Cantonese, English