Li Hongwei

Li Hongwei (b.1980, China) is a contemporary artist who works and lives in Beijing and New York. His works have been acquired by the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Israel Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Long Museum among others. His works have been exhibited in numerous international art institutions, including the National Art Museum of China, the Louvre, the U.S. Embassy, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Fox Art Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Long Museum, and the Dublin Castle in Ireland, etc. In 2013, he was awarded the Taylor Prize by the 2013 France International Salon.

Hongwei holds a bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and a master’s in ceramic art from the New York State College of Ceramics at the Alfred University at Alfred, NY. As a visiting artist, he has been invited to give lectures in different institutions, including Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.