Ding Li was born in 1979 in Shanghai, and graduated with a MA from the Oil Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, France (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris). The works of Ding Li are based on repeated experiments with the aim of defining a pure expression of his own in this media. His practice focuses on the exploration of painting developed from materials characteristics and presents a new visual language through the reconstruction of oil paints, spray paints, brushes and frames.
Read MoreHis recent exhibitions include: Robert Song, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2019; Wild Metrop-olis, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; Extreme Mix-Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; The Kind Stranger, UNArt Center, Shanghai, 2019; The Var-iable and The Generating, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; In the Name of December 12., Ima-gokinetics Lab, Hangzhou, China, 2018; The First Porsche 'Young Chinese Artist of the Year' Nominees’ Exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2017; Yellspace Programme Exhibi-tion—Partial Archive, Yell Space, Shanghai, China, 2019; Serendipitous Mission, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; Form Consumption Over Substance Reflection, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2017; Information Sculpture Superhighway, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2016; In-venting Ritual, Bentu, Chinese artists at a time of turbulence and transformation, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, 2016; Not Impulsive Enough Is the Devil, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2015.
Text courtesy MadeIn Gallery.