VISITING ARTIST LECTURE – YING LI, PAINTER:
Mon, February 24, 11 a.m.
Visual & Performing Arts Center, room 144, WCSU, Westside campus
Free & Open to the Public, Limited Seating Available
RSVP required

Ying Li was born in Beijing, China, and studied traditional landscape painting at Anhui Normal University, where she received her BFA and then taught for six years. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1983 and received her M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design. She lives and works in NYC and Haverford, Pennsylvania, where she is the Phlyssa Koshland Professor in Fine Arts at Haverford College, where she has taught since 1997.

Li’s work is represented by Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York, Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, and Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland, Maine. It has been featured in international exhibitions in the U.S., Switzerland, Italy, Ireland and France. In NYC, she has shown with several galleries, including Lohin Geduld, Elizabeth Harris, Tibor de Nagy, and Lori Bookstein Fine Art. She has been in group shows at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy Museum, where she received the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for Painting and the Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award.

Li has received many residency awards, including Artist in Residence at Hollins University (in 2024), Dartmouth College, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, and various residency fellowships in Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, France, Canada, and the U.S. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic, among others.

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