Li Xiaofei (b.1973) is a Chinese visual artist who lives and works in New York and Shanghai. He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Li has been the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including Grant of the Asian Cultural Council (New York), the IASPIS (Stockholm), and the Asia New Zealand Foundation (Wellington). the FIPRESCI Award and an honorable mention by the International Jury at the 66th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany). the VIDEOFORMES Award of the Conseil Départemental du Puy de Dôme (France).

In 2010, Li initiated the Assembly Line Project—a practice that is intertwined with the social progress and social transformations of our time. Li has travelled around the world, investigating and taking footage of over 280 different factories to date. His work challenges the inherent sense of perception and production contained in more traditional narrative modes of expression, replacing these with his own visual language of continuous and repeating images. His works seek to explore the relationship between industrial production and social development.

Li Xiaofei works have been featured nationally and internationally in the 4th ,6th and 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, (2013, 2017 and 2019), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014), Barents Spektakel (2015), and the 3rd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (2012), the Kunstraum München, the Guangdong Times Museum, OCAT Xi’an (solo exhibition), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seoul Museum of Art, FSRR (Turin), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), and KW Berlin in group exhibitions. His works have been collected both by institutions and private collectors, including the Kadist Art Foundation (USA), FCAF (UK), and the White Rabbit Gallery (Australia).