Li Hong (b. 1967, Jinhua, Zhejiang) is a Chinese-born artist currently based between Hawaii, Beijing, and Florence. A graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Oil Painting Advanced Studies Program (2025), she previously built a career in fashion...
Read MoreLi Hong (b. 1967, Jinhua, Zhejiang) is a Chinese-born artist currently based between Hawaii, Beijing, and Florence. A graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Oil Painting Advanced Studies Program (2025), she previously built a career in fashion design and brand management in Shenzhen before committing fully to fine art.
Her practice operates across painting and installation, driven by an inquiry into light as both material and metaphor. Drawing upon Eastern philosophical frameworks—qi (flow), jing (mental space), hua (transformation), and kong (void)—alongside Western phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty) and philosophies of time (Bergson), her work dissolves the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. Color becomes corporeal; surface becomes environment. Her canvases, ranging from intimate to monumental, generate immersive fields where light, memory, and physicality converge.
Recent solo exhibitions include Let There Be Light at the Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing (2026). She has been the subject of critical essays by Professor Yuan Yuan (Head of Oil Painting Department, CAFA) and Giandomenico Semeraro (Florence). She continues her artistic research at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.
Her biography is marked by an unusual trajectory: her commitment to painting began as a promise to her daughter—to mount an exhibition before attempting to summit Everest—a testament to the intensity and purpose that define her practice.
