Li Hei Di (b. 1996, Shenyang, China), lives and works in London. They received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a BA (Hons) from Chelsea College of Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2022, LINSEED Projects, Shanghai presented the artist’s first solo exhibition, Tits at Dawn. In 2023, projects include Uncanny Valley, a group exhibition at Gagosian, Hong Kong, followed later in the year by their US solo debut at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. The artist’s first solo exhibition in London will take place at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, in early 2024. Li has been included in group shows at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2023), Downs & Ross, New York (2022), Public Gallery, London (2022) and LINSEED Projects, Shanghai (2022), amongst others. Painting forms the backbone of Li’s practice, although sculpture and performance play a key role. Their work explores ideas of sensuality and infatuation, and the eroticism of Chinese literature and cinema is of crucial significance. Li eschews rigid sexual codes and gender categories in favour of a liberated approach to fantasy and beauty, which exists apart from hierarchical and dominant social structures.
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