Weiyi Li

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• MPhil

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  Innovation Design Engineering, 2016–2017

• Contact

• [email protected]
  +44 (0)7783 134028
  http://weiyi.li/

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• Weiyi Li is an artist weiyi.li, designer weiyiandfriends.com, curator bigbadgallery.com, publisher re-publication.com and retailor currently-available.com who lives and works between these five URLs.
  

• Degrees

• MFA Graphic Design, Yale University, 2012; BFA Visual Communication Design, Tongji University, 2009

• Exhibitions

• Group show ‘To Gaze & To Detach', THE DOOR ART, Beijing, 2017; Group show 'Over The Sea', J:Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; Group show 'The Amoy Meat Factory', Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016; Group show 'Sino-German Moving Image Exhibition and Forum', B3+Shanghai, Shanghai, 2016; Group show 'VPN/Very Productive Nation', Ying Space, Beijing, 2016; Group show ‘LIGHT SHOW’，No.126 Caochangdi, Beijing, 2016; Group show ‘Factually Real Illusions’, The Cook House Gallery, London, 2016; Group show ‘Total war or Nothing at all’, J:Gallery, Shanghai, 2016; Group show ‘Art Book in China’, 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016; Group show ‘Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan’, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2016; Group show ‘Extravagant Imagination, the wonder of idleness’, Made in gallery, Shanghai, 2016; 456 Forum Screening Series, No.1 In the name of the media, Chinese American Arts Council, New york, 2016; Group show ‘Re-’, Flux Factory, New york, 2016; Group show 'Apartment Show', Open Art, Shanghai, 2015; The Second Beijing Photo Biennial Photobook Exhibition, Beijing, 2015; Lecture & Group show, DREAMER art book fair 2015, IMPACT9 International Printmaking Conference, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2015; Solo show 'Input', Art Data Lab, 2015; Group show 'The possibility of an island', Zhou Art Team, Xiamen, 2015; Group show 'The Adventures of Image and Paper: Contemporary Chinese Photobooks', Gucang Contemporary Photo Gallery, Lanzhou, 2015; Group show 'CHINA 8 – CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CHINA AT RHINE & RUHR', Museum Folkwang (as group member of Ma Daha), Essen, 2015; XII International Art Biennale Pintor Laxeiro, Lalin, 2015; Group show 'Middle Ground', C-space, Beijing,; Group show 'Go East: 50 Contemporary Photobooks from China 2009 – 2014', FORMAT International Photography Festival 15, Derby, 2015; Lecture & Group show, ZHAIXIANGWUYU creative lab, Dalian, 2015; Group show 'Tomorrow's party', UCCA (Collaborated with Boo York), Beijing, 2014; Group show 'Teach us to care and not to care, Teach us to sit still', BANK, MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, 2014; Media Projects, L'Officiel Art magazine (Collaborated with Boo York), Beijing, 2014; BI-CITY Biennial of Urbanism/Architecture (Collaborated with Max Harvey), Shenzhen, 2013; 1st Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing, 2013; China Design Exhibition, Shenzhen, 2012; Solo show 'Family Album Project II', Fach & Asendorf Gallery, http://fa-g.org/ 2012; MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, 2012; Chinese Independent Photobook Exhibition, Beijing, 2012; Death of Print Independent Book and Magazine Show, New york, 2011; KIC Little World Open Art Exhibition, Shanghai, 2011; Yale School of Art First-Year Student Show, New Haven, 2011; International Students Exhibition of Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, 2008; Creative M50 Innovative Young Designer & Artists Exhibition, Shanghai, 2007

• Awards

• Sanyu Scholarship grantee, 2010 – 2012; Rebecca Taylor Porter Award, 2012; Outstanding Graduates of Colleges and Universities in Shanghai, 2009; Honorable Mention, International Students Exhibition of Shanghai Biennale, 2008; FIRST-CLASS, SieMatic Scholarship of Tongji University, 2008; FIRST-CLASS, Scholarship of Tongji University, 2008; the Silver Medal, Creative M50 Innovative Young Designer & Artists, 2007; Chinese National Scholarship, 2007; the Bronze Medal, GREENCHAIN Logo Design Competition, 2007; the Second Prize, Academy Award of Merit Students Exhibition, Tongji University, 2007; FIRST-CLASS, Scholarship of Tongji University, 2007; the First Prize, Academy Award of Merit Students Exhibition, Tongji University, 2006; FIRST-CLASS, Scholarship of Tongji University, 2006