Vanguard Gallery

Joy Li was born in 1999 in Gansu, China. She currently lives and works in Shenzhen, China.

She obtained her BFA degree in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Theater minor at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021. She will be attending MFA Sculpture program at Yale School of Art in 2024.

Her works include sculpture, performance art, theater, video, and music, exploring the tension of interactions between objects, emotions, and relationships. In her works, she reinterprets objects and bodies to magnify the allure and danger inherent in everyday items, allowing the audience to re-experience and interact familiar things in unfamiliar ways.

Solo Exhibitions
2024 “Gas Station X”, Vanguard gallery, Shanghai, China

2024 “Icarus’ Wings”, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

2023 “Green Water”, LINSEED, Shanghai, China

2023 “Golden Lines and White Lightings”, Aranya, Chengde, China

2022 “Salomé”, 33ml OFFSPACE, Shanghai, China

2020 “Collective Dreaming”, BBOX, Baltimore, UK
Group Exhibitions
2024 “Open the Door”, Gallery func, Shanghai, China

2024 “At the beginning, you find nothing there”, Petitree, Shenzhen, China

2024 “Embodies Rituals”, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China

2024 “After Human: Marks of the Beasts”, Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong, China

2024 “The Nostalgic Collection”, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China

2023 “moments that home came into establishment”, Third Street Gallery, Shanghai, China

2023 “Tie Up”, Mugyewon, LINSEED, Seoul, South Korea