Artist:Li Yiwen


Li Yiwen (b. 1982, Luoyang, China) graduated from the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in 2006 and from the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree in 2011. He has won the 2006 Light of the Academy "Art Innovation" Award and Wang Jialian Oil Painting Scholarship.


Li Yiwen uses painting as his main medium. His paintings always travel through time, space, and reflect the artist's thoughts on the relationship between them. Experiences from the past and the present permeate each other, and its continuous accumulation becomes the source of inspiration and the origin of Li's expression. Li often adopts Postmodern methodology—he blends illogical, fictional, ectopic, and intuitive elements into the artwork by filtering, selecting, and elevating the image, subverting the traditional narrative of painting practices while generating new meanings.


Solo exhibitions: "Votex·Sediment: Messlanic Time" (Shekou Gallery, Shenzhen, 2025); "World Island" (Mocube, Beijing, 2025); "The Moment" (Leo Gallery, Hong Kong, 2024); "Synchronic Field" (Mocube, Beijing, 2023); "Turbulence" (Mocube, Beijing, 2021); "durée" (Leo Gallery, Shanghai, 2018); "Integrative Structure" (Leo Gallery, Hong Kong, 2016); "LI YIWEN" (Irene Laub Gallery, Brussels, 2015); "LI YIWEN" (Yang Gallery, Beijing, 2014); "Twinkling" (Times Art Museum, Beijing, 2013).


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