Yichu Li is an award-winning artist whose practice merges image-making, moving image art, audiovisual live performance, and sound art to examine the evolving relationship between identity, power, and digital culture. Grounded in a techno-feminist perspective, her work spans digital art, moving images and sound-based performances, often presented in immersive exhibition contexts. Drawing from digital culture, cyber theory, and embodied resistance, Yichu creates poetic visual environments that interrogate digital embodiment and reimagine authorship in the algorithmic age. Her artistic practice challenges dominant techno-aesthetics by reframing digital media as tools for emotional and political expression. Through live visual composition, remix, and layered image sequences, she empowers marginalized communities—especially women—to reclaim digital space as a site of agency and collective imagination. Her major works—including RAVE CINEMA series, YICHU 1.0 series—craft alternative narrative rituals that blur the boundaries between sound, image, memory, and mechanic rhythm.
Yichu is an Artist Fellow of National Arts Club (US), the winner of the Best AI Film - Asian Art Film Festival, winner of the Best Experimental Film - Arklink AI Film Festival Awards, winner of the 2nd Female Photographers Support Program awarded by The Female Photography Foundation, winner of the Best Project Award - AI International Film Festival (US), and winner of the Aion Digital Art Prize. She is also the Silver Award recipient of 4th Light Year Award (CN), a Finalist for Lumen Prize – Performance & Music Award (US), Reply AI Music Contest (IT), Arte Laguna Prize – Photographic Art Category (20th Edition, IT), The Next Thing Moving Image Award (UK), and the Asia Emerging Artists List at Asian Academy of Arts (CN).
Yichu’s works have been exhibited and performed internationally at a range of art institutions and contemporary culture festivals. Notable venues include Paris Photo Fair (FR), AI Film Awards Cannes (FR), The National Arts Club (US), Peckham Digital (UK), Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre (UK), Shoreditch Arts Club (UK), Galleria Objets (UK), IEEE ICME AIART Gallery (FR), The Wrong Biennale (ES), Video Art Miden(GR), Artspring Berlin Festival (DE), Berlin Music Video Awards (DE), Piksel Festival (NO), Kunstsilo (NO), Speculum Artium Festival (SI) The Telephone Project (US), A Space Gallery (US), AI International Film Festival (US), Yeoju International Photo Festival (KR), AI Artist Festival (CN), and Asian Emerging Artist List Hong Kong (CN). Her audiovisual performances have also been featured in Sónar+D Music Festival (ES), Kappa FuturFestival (IT), Burning Man (US), King’s College of London (UK), Fabric London (UK), Riposte Art Rave (UK), 44KW (CN), etc, contributing to a wider discourse on ritual, embodiment, and new media. Yichu’s works have been featured by Der Greif (DE), University of Arts London (UK), National Arts Club (US), COLD Magazine (UK), KLAT Magazine (UK), Cista Arts (UK), Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art (US), The Liminal Review (US), AP News (US), Surface Magazine (US), Artnet (US), Arton (CN), and Barbagelata Foundation (ES), etc.
