Li Hanwei
CV
Li Hanwei(b. 1994, Xuzhou, China) graduated from Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts with a degree in Photography in 2018. His practice spans video, installation, painting, performance, and curatorial projects. Li’s work engages with the shifting emotions and structures within the Chinese internet environment. Drawing on advertising narratives, aesthetic packaging, and platform culture, he transforms these charged social mechanisms into concrete visual and spatial experiences. Most recently, he has advanced a body of painting experiments through the use of artificial intelligence and 3D printing, where efficiency, repetition, and erasure are translated into the material traces of images, reflecting the collective psychology of the digital age.
In addition, Li Hanwei is a co-founder of Slime Engine(www.slimeengine.com), an online contemporary art platform established in 2017 with Liu Shuzhen and Fang Yang. The collective develops experimental exhibitions in virtual space and hybrid projects in physical sites, building a network of emerging artists and reimagining digital public space as a participatory arena.
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Awards & Nominations
- 2025: Recipient of the inaugural K11 Curator Prize
- 2023: Winner of the Porsche "Chinese Young Artist" Award
- 2020: Nominated for the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Emerging Artists
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2025: Bipolar Disorder, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami
- 2025: Liquid Health, Centre For Experimental Film, Online Cinema
- 2024: Just Drill It, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
- 2022: New Painting, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai
- 2022: New Communication, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
- 2019: Liquid Health, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai
Selected Group Exhibitions
Works have been exhibited at international institutions including:
chi K11 Art Museum (Shanghai/Guangzhou), Gravity Art Museum (Beijing), Times Museum (Beijing/Guangzhou), Xie Zilong Photography Museum (Changsha), Fosun Foundation (Shanghai), Chronus Art Center (CAC, Shanghai), HEK (House of Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland), MadeIn Art Museum (Shanghai), Powerlong Museum (Shanghai), K11 MUSEA (Hong Kong), 69 Art Campus (Beijing), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai), Power Station of Art (PSA, Shanghai), Qiao Space (Shanghai), Tank Shanghai (Shanghai), OCAT (Shenzhen), White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney), and Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure d’Art (Nice).