PROFILE
Xue Li is a Chinese artist, art historian, and educator whose work spans artistic practice, art historical research, and critical inquiry into visibility, gender, cultural memory, and institutional narratives. She investigates how artists, histories, and forms of knowledge become recognised, recorded, or excluded within cultural and institutional frameworks. Her research pays particular attention to the historical and contemporary visibility of women artists in China.
Her artistic practice explores these concerns through installation, video, and immersivemultisensory environments. Drawing on materials that carry specific cultural histories, including silk, red satin, xuan paper, tuan shan (traditional Chinese round fan), and organza, Li creates immersive environments that invite viewers to move through spaces of concealment, recognition, and uncertainty. Her works often transform familiar materials into large-scale installations where boundaries between presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, become unstable and open to negotiation.
Her work has been exhibited and presented internationally across China, Australia, Europe, and the United Kingdom through exhibitions, conferences, and research forums. Recent exhibitions and presentations include Hujiang Art Museum, MSPACE, Spectrum Project Space, the CIHA World Congress, and the Association for Art History Annual Conferences.