Li Wanting is a visual artist primarily working in painting. Her practice draws from the subconscious, symbolic forms, and ancient civilizations, exploring how time, memory, and interior landscapes intertwine. Treating the canvas as a living field, her work evolves through...
Read MoreLi Wanting is a visual artist primarily working in painting. Her practice draws from the subconscious, symbolic forms, and ancient civilizations, exploring how time, memory, and interior landscapes intertwine. Treating the canvas as a living field, her work evolves through intuitive layering, erasure, and tension—often guided more by presence than by control. She regards herself not as a creator, but as a medium through which the work unfolds.
Li’s perspective is deeply shaped by personal experience. In 2015, she was invited to participate in a traditional Chinese painting project at the Daming Palace National Heritage Museum. In 2022, she immersed herself for half a year in Tibet, where spiritual life and daily practice blurred into one. This journey continues to inform her exploration of painting as a vessel for consciousness, ritual, and the invisible structures of perception.
She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York, and is currently pursuing her postgraduate studies in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.
//As a multidisciplinary artist working between Eastern ink traditions and contemporary painting, I find deep resonance with the international vision of Arte Laguna Prize. While the Venice Arsenale exhibition is of particular significance, I would also be honored to present my work in the Shanghai context, where cultural intersections offer new grounds for dialogue.
