Li Xiaofei, b.1973 in Hunan, China. Works and lives in New Jersey and Shanghai
Education & Co-Founded
1994-1998 The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
2004–2007 Co-Founded Shanghai Creek Art Center and served as Executive Director
2007-2015 Founded Fei Contemporary Art Center Shanghai and serves as Art Director
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Li Xiaofei: Assembly line, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
2019 Li Xiaofei: I Am the People (In Chongqing)，Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2018 Ponytails — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, Times Museum, Gunagzhou, China
2017 The Silent Chant, Bonacon Gallery, Gunagzhou, China
Outside the Outer Ring Road — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, XinQiao Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Assembly Line Projects in 1891 Space — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, ART100, New York, USA
Seven Necessities — An Assembly Line Project by Li Xiaofei, OCAT Xi’An, China
2014 Crabs and Chocolate — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
Crabs and Chocolate — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, Pretty Land Gallery, Krefeld, Germany
2013 Assembly Line — A Packet of Salt, Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, Toi Poneke art Center \ WARE, Wellington, New Zealand
Assembly Line — Entrance, Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition，Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Assembly line — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, Super Tokonoma, Kassel, Germany
2012 Assembly line — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, Mandarins Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium \ Ictus Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A \ OV Gallery, Shanghai, China \ Pretty Land Gallery, Krefeld, Germany
2010 After 2000 — Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition, Pretty Land Gallery, Krefeld, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Art + Tech: An Asian American Experience, City University of New York, NY, USA
Mother Nature vs Human Nature: The Inequity of Climate Resilience,
The Noyes museum of Art Stockton University, NJ, USA
2022 10TH REEL CHINA BIENNIAL AT NYU, NY, USA
Sanderhaus Screening, Kassel, Germany
1º Kaaffilm International Short Film Festival, Milan, Italy
the 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence, New Jersey State Museum, NJ, USA
the 20th GwangHwaMun International Short Film Festival. Seoul, Korea
“Man-Made Landscpe_Hotel Asia Project” Time Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2021 Man-Made Landscpe_Hotel Asia Project, Time Art Museum, Chengdu, China
The 67th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
A Stitch in time, The 4th Today’s Documents, Chongqing Contemporart Art Museum,
Chongqing, China
2020 The 66th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Precipitation, Chinese Contemporary Art Museum(CCA), Chongqing, China
Post-human consciousness, KVL, KADIST (SF) and the A4 Art Museum in Chengdu
Shanghai International Photography Festival 2020, Shanghai, China
The KINO DER KUNST-festival, München, Germany
2019 A Stitch in time, The 4th Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Goordinates Theater, UABB (2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture), Shenzhen, China
Tongfuyu workstation, Sally Project, Shenzhen (Symbiosis, On the Road)
Mengzi: Place and workld Art workshop, Mengzi, China
Here lead to all roads, Chongqing, China
Factories, Machines and the Poet’s Words: Echoes of the Realities in Art, 798 Space. Beijing
I am here, MeiCheng Art, Shenzhen, China
PRESENT TENSE: TASK OF REMEMBRANCE, CCC, SF, USA
Nonglin Open Stage, Fei Arts, Guangzhou, China
Cross-Cultural Practiee, Recent works by Chinese Artists in New York, New Academic Complex, NY, USA
The D –Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany
2018 Tell Me a Story, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Field Recordings, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
A Packet of Salt, Videokunst, Bern, Schweiz
A Packet of Salt, Juraplatz, Biel, Schweiz
34th Hamburg International Short Film Festival
International, Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Arts Festival, Hangzhou, China
2017 Detourin, Times Museum, Gunagzhou, China
Cities, Grow in Difference, UABB (2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture), Shenzhen, China
Precariat’s Meeting, McaM, Shanghai, China
Becoming, No.8\No.N2 Cattle Depor Art Village, Hong Kong.
Vallastaden 2017, Linköping University, Sweden
Proverbes Chinois, Geneva, Switzerland
Chinafrika. under construction, Leipzig at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Germany
Partial Archive, Yell Space, Shanghai, China
The Dark Matters, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney Australia
New Notes of Guangdong, bonacon gallery, Guangzhou, China
Residents: Recruitment, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China
2016 FUNDAMENTAL, 5. Mediations Biennale Poznań, Poland
Urban Touch, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
Sexing the City, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands
“error: X” ‘Ostrale‘ O16, Dresden, Germany
Tell Me A Story: Locality and Narrative, The Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), Shanghai
Place Remaking — Dreen Power for the future, DAK\ART 2016-China Pavilion
CROSSING BORDERS, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
2015 Prototypes, Duplicates and Cast-offs — Assembly Line Project_2, 1288 Boxue Lu and V ART CENTER, Shanghai, China
Babel Me, The Shanghai Museum of Glass Shanghai, China
Between Knowing and Unknowing: Research in-and-through Art, Times Museum, Guang Zhou, China
City Vision — Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yun Art Center, Shanghai, China
Video Art Exhibition Beyond Frozen Point Coming up in Shanghai, 1933 Art, Shanghai, China
Modern Sky Festival Helsinki, Finland
5 Nakanojo Biennale, Old School in Nakanojo, Japan
BOONDOCKS 2, The Art Association Kunsthalle Hannover e.V. Germany
Assured Stability — an Assembly Line Projects_1, V ART CENTER, Shanghai, China
Essential Matters-Moving Images from China, Borusan Contemporary Perili Kosk, Istanbul, Turkey
The System of Objects, Min sheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
More Methods of Art, Connecting Space Hong Kong, Hong Kong
And the Story Goes Screening program, MIACA, Hong Kong
Overtime: The Art of Work, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A
ARCTIC TAKE AWAY, Barents Spektakel 2015, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes, Norway
2014 Social factory,The 10th Shanghai Biennale, PSA, Shanghai, China
COSMOS : Opening Exhibition of Shanghai 21st Century Min sheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
China time 2014 (KurzFilm im Metropolis-Kino Hamburg), Hamburg, Germany
SHANGHAI GESTURE, GDM, galerie de multiples, Paris, France
The 1st China Xinjiang International Arts Biennale, Xinjiang International Exhibition Center, Urumqi, China
{ }, The 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
AVIFF Art Film Festival Cannes 2014, Film Festival Cannes, France
The 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Change & Exchange — Contemporary Art Exhibition, HALLE 50, Munich, Germany
Electronic Pacific — Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
Organism, iD TOWN International Artists Workshop, Shenzhen, China
2013 Urban Border, UABB (2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture) Old Warehouse at Shekou Ferry Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Follies of a Species, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
FILTER THE PUBLIC, Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
3th Edition N-Minutes Video Art Festival, K11, Shanghai, China
Learning from the Literati 4, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
Portraits, Galerie C, Neuchatel, Switzerlan
ELECTRONIC PACIFIC OPENING FEATURES LIVE TATTOOS, PERFORMANCE & FILM SCREENING, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, U.S.A
Pavillion 0 – transnational pavilion of a country which does not exist of common future of utopia, Palazzo Donà, Venezia, Italy
Individual Growth Momentum of contemporary Art, Tian Jin Art Museum, Tian Jin, China
Trans Media Fashion and Art Exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Contemporary Art And Of The Society — Chinese Contemporary Art Documenta, Circle Art Center, Shen Zhen, China
Rotating Shanghai, Photo Biennale 2012,Thessaloniki, Greece
Beton Box, Duesseldorf, Germany
2012 Melancholy in Progress, 2012 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition,
Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Time Within Time, Zhujiajiao Contemporary Art Exhibition, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai
2nd Edition N-Minutes Video Art Festival, CITIC Square, Shanghai, China
Learning from the Literati 3, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
Think Again, Rockbund Museum, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai , China
2012 Trans Media Fashion and Art Exhibition, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai , China
JETLAG — Multimedia contemporary art in China, Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover, Germany
Descriptive Acts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A
Reliquie als Fetisch in Kirche, Kunst & Konsum, Trier Contemporary Art Center, Trier, Germany
2011 Forgotten Places, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
N Minutes Video Art Festival, CITIC Square, Shanghai, China
Poster Exhibition, Top Events, Shanghai, China
Collective Consciousness Exhibition, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
Taiwanese Contemporary Art TCA Project, iscp, New York, U.S.A
Lines & Clusters, Bern, Grosse Halle Reitschule, Basel, Dreispitzhalle
Luzern, Südpol | Musik, Tanz Theater, Switzerland
2010 TRAFFIC ART HIGHWAY, Le Pave Dans La Mare, Shanghai, China
San Sheng Wan Wu, Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China
Sister City Video Art Screening, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, U.S.A
Invisible City, Art College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Inside / Outside: An Evening of Short Videos From China, Montclair State University, U.S.A
Go, OCAT Contemporary Art Center, Shen Zhen, China
Dreaming alike oceans apart, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A
2009 ART HIGHWAY, Le Pave Dans La Mare, Besancon, France
2008 Rumors — Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
Virtual City New Power — Contemporary Art Biennale 2008, Y&G Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2007 Self-taught Society — Exhibition in Deviation, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
FCA — 129 Guest Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
A Real Experience Contemporary Art Exhibition, Pretty Land Gallery, Germany
Creek Art 2.0 — Contemporary Art Exhibition, Creek Art, Shanghai, China
2006 Gaodanghuo — from Shanghai, Contemporary Art Exhibition, New Triumph Art, Paris, France
2005 MMAC Multimedia Art Festival, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
East Wind — West Wind, Hi-Shanghai, Creek Art, Shanghai, China
2004 Matchmaking at Suzhou Creek, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
VIPER International Film, Video, New Media Arts Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2003 City Net Asia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Cloudy & Sunny, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
2002 In Shanghai, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Happy Time — Born in 1973, Shanghai, China
City Light, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China
Mushroom Cloud, or Utopia, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
2001 Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2000 Six People Joint Exhibition, Huashan Art, Shanghai, China
1999 City Beautiful — 99 Oil Paintings: Shanghai Salon Invitational, Gallery of Shanghai Academy of Art, Shanghai, China
Awards and achievements
2022 Received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
2022 Honorable Mention by the 1º Kaaffilm International ShortFilm Festival (Italy)
2021 the VIDEOFORMES Award of the Conseil Départemental du Puy de Dôme (France)
2020 the FIPRESCI Award and an honorable mention by the International Jury at the 66th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany)
2013 Grant of Iaspis International Residency, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Grants of Asia New Zealand Foundation & Wellington City Council, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Grants of Asian Cultural Council, New York, U.S.A
Lecture
2021 San Francisco Art Institute, SF, USA
2020 Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
2019 OCAT Shenzhen, China
2017 Collectif Global, Pompidou Center, Paris, France
A special program of presentations and discussions organized within the framework of the first edition of a Biennale entitled Cosmopolis
Seven Necessities — An Assembly Line Project by Li Xiaofei, OCAT Xi’An
2015 Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2014 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Video Bureau, Beijing, China
2013 Toi Poneke Art Center, Wellington, New Zealand
Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Shanghai New York University, Shanghai, China
IASPIS, Stockholm, Swedish
Super Tokonoma, Kassel, Germany
2012 Weißensee School, Berlin, Germany
Linköpings Universitet,Linköping, Schweden
Candyland, Stockholm, Schweden
Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Shanghai, China
Art Department Anhui Normal University, Wuhu China
2011 School of Visual Arts, New York, U.S.A
Taibei Comtemporary Art Center (TCAC), Taibei, Taiwan
Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taibei, Taiwan
Taipei National University of the Arts, TNUA, Taibei, Taiwan
Rockbund Arts Museum, Shanghai, China
2009 Ecole des Beaux Arts de Besancon, Le Pave Dans La Mare, Besancon, France
Art Residency
2018 OCAT Shenzhen, China
2014 Das Artist-in-Residence Programm, Munich, Germany
2013 Contact for iD Town residency, Shen Zhen, China
Asia New Zealand Foundation, Wellington, New Zealand
IASPIS, Stockholm, Swedish
2011 Asia Culture Council, Point B, New York, U.S.A
The Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Le Pave Dans La Mare, Besancon, France