Lihong Bai (白莉鸿) Lihong Bai is a London-based, Chinese-born artist working across painting, performance, and filmmaking. Trained in traditional Chinese painting since the age of six, she honed her skills at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts before earning an MA in Painting from...
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Lihong Bai (白莉鸿)
Lihong Bai is a London-based, Chinese-born artist working across painting, performance, and filmmaking.
Trained in traditional Chinese painting since the age of six, she honed her skills at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts before earning an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Influenced by Chinese painting, Oriental philosophy, and Foucault’s spatial theory, she merges traditional techniques with contemporary approaches, expanding painting’s boundaries through performance and multimedia. Her work explores heterotopias—liminal spaces where time and space intersect, examining the fluid interplay between desire and selfhood.
Lihong’s recent work investigates self and desire, inspired by Zen philosophy’s belief that we are born whole but become entangled in identity, expectation, and longing. Through repetitive circular forms, she visualizes the tension between inner purity and external constructs, seeking a balance between struggle and surrender, loss and rediscovery. Rather than rejecting desire, she embraces its role in shaping the self.
Her work has been exhibited at the Malta Biennale, Milan International Film Festival, Shanghai International Art Festival, Aisan and in galleries across London, Japan, and Paris. Her RCA graduate project, highly recommended by the principal, was showcased at the British Consulate in San Francisco. Recently, she received the Hong Kong Best Contemporary Artist Newcomer Award and has been featured in Art-Net, ArtPlugged, Trebuchet Magazine, FAD Magazine, Artron Art, and China Contemporary Art Network.
