Li Hui

Li Hui, born in Shaanxi in 1991, currently lives and works in Xi'an. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in 2014, and with a master's degree in 2017 and now she is studying for her PhD there.  In 2021, she won the Shaanxi Provincial Youth Art Talent Funding project; from September 2018 to June 2019, she stayed in Huxi Commune in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts for a one-year art residency program. In October 2017, she had a one-month art residency at the "Art Future" institution in Erdos in Inner Mongolia. Her artworks have been selected for several youth art exhibition projects, and her graduation creation has won the first prize of the academy.

Artist Statement

The pop culture that surrounds me in various fields brings me some fleeting sensory pleasures and visual experiences, especially those images that sometimes seem meaningless. They are narrated in the same diverse context, but will become history  in an instant, which makes it difficult for me to have a certain clear thinking and rigorous logic. On the contrary, countless fragments surround me, from logic to feeling, from narrative to experience, from figurative to abstract... For me, the expressive purpose of painting is replaced by the pleasure of the act itself, and the fragments of the images I faced had already seeped into my self-consciousness, and the seemingly inflated personalities are simultaneously submerged in the torrent of the virtual world , as these inexplicable trivial moments narrated, they show me a complex, contradictory and uncertain world.

Exhibitions