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, sound-based performances, and moving images, 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 marginalised 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 the Winner of the 2nd Female Photographers Support Program awarded by The Female Photography Foundation (UK & CN), Winner of the Best Project Award at the AI International Film Festival (US), and Artist Fellow of the National Arts Club (US, 2026). She is also the Silver Award recipient of the 4th Light Year Award (CN), a Finalist for the Lumen Prize – Performance & Music Award (US), a Finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize – Photographic Art Category (20th Edition, IT), a Finalist for The Next Thing Moving Image Award at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre (UK), and a Finalist for the Asia Emerging Artists List at the Asian Academy of Arts (CN). These distinctions reflect her expanding presence as a leading voice in new media art, feminist image-making, and digital storytelling.
Yichu’s works have been exhibited and performed internationally at a range of art institutions and contemporary culture festivals. Notable venues include V&A’s Digital Design Weekend (UK), Peckham Digital (UK), Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre (UK), Galleria Objets (UK), Paris Photo Fair (FR), AI Film Awards Cannes (FR), IEEE ICME AIART Gallery (FR), The Wrong Biennale (DE), Berlin Music Video Awards (DE), Piksel Festival (NO), Kunstsilo (NO), The Telephone Project (US), A Space Gallery (US), AI International Film Festival (US), Onassis ONX (US), Yeoju International Photo Festival (KR), UCCA AI Artist (CN), TANK Shanghai (CN), and Asian Emerging Artist List Exhibition Hong Kong (CN). Her audiovisual performances have also been featured in Burning Man (US), 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 KLAT Magazine (UK), Cista Arts (UK), Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art (US), The Liminal Review (US), AP News (US), Surface Magazine (US), Artnet (US), Der Greif (DE), Arton (CN), and Barbagelata Foundation (ES), etc.
