Yili Liu is a artist and art director. Her practice specialises in developing visual solutions for clients within (but not limited to) the fields of art, design, fashion, culture and commerce, services extend across all formats with a focus on photography and visual design.
Her work presents the uncanny ordinary through blurring boundaries and creating illusions. Minimalist yet surreal, the paradoxical visuals are often an exploration of human behaviours under the vast environment of nature and technology. Liu often questions the relationship between mankind and its tools, the coexistence of functionality and consumption. She studied BA Fine Art at Chelsea Colleges of Arts and graduated at Central Saint Martins with an MA of Contemporary Photography.
Yili’s work has been recognized by publications and organizations including the Wallpaper and Autor Magazine. Exhibitied including ‘Tiao Shui’ (Diving), Shanghai; ‘The Age of New Babylon’, Lethaby Gallery, London; ‘TATE EXCHANGE’, Tate Modern, London; REMARQUABLE, Anaglifos Art Factory Gallery, Barcelona; ‘Spring’, The St.Petersburg Union of Artists, Saint-Petersburg; ’Line of Edge’, Art in Gallery,Tokyo.
Exhibitions
2015.5.12-14. ‘Means of Escape’ The Old Bath London UK
2016.2.22-27 ‘Intimate Projection’ Menier Gallery London UK
2016.3.17-18 ‘Art Wot We Made’ 21 Grosvenor Way London UK
2016.5.25-30 ‘Moment’ Coningsby Gallery London UK W1T 4RJ
2016.6.27-7.2 “Line of Edge” Art in Gallery 4 Chom -25-3 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo Japan
2017.4.2-9 ‘Spring’ The St.Petersburg Union of artists, Bolshaya Morskaya street 38 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2017.3.27-31 Aktivität bin Espacio Creativo, Carrer Topazi, 21 08012, Barcelona, Spain
2017.6.5-10 ‘Parallel Existence’ Bloomsbury Gallery, 34 Bloomsbury St, London, UK
2018.1.15-19 SU Gallery, LCC, London, UK
2018.1.15-21 ‘TATE EXCHANGE’, Blavatnik Building, Level 5, Bankside, London, UK
2018.3.9-11 ‘Appetite’, Apiary Studios,458 Hackney Rd, London, UK
2018.4.16-20 ‘Dang Xia’, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Lslip St, Westminster, London, UK
2018.10.15-18 ‘HABITAT’, The Street, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2018.11.8-15 Postgraduate Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2018.11.23 - 12.12 ‘The Age of New Babylon’, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2019.5.22- 26 Central Saint Martins Degree Shows 2019: Show One: Art, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2019.6.25-7.9 ‘NCL LDN’, Long Gallery and Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
2019.10.19 - 11.3 ‘Tiao Shui’(Diving) No. 73, 1285 Nong, HuaiHai Road, Shanghai, China.
2020.2.18 - 3.1 ‘Squeeze’, Karen Tronel, 18 Lillie Road, London, UK
2020.2.26 - 28 Big Space Exhibition, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA, London, UK
2021.8.28 - 10.13 ‘Vain’, Diving Art Space, 2nd Floor, No.3, Lane 185, Xinhua Road, Changning, Shanghai, China
2015.5.12-14. ‘Means of Escape’ The Old Bath London UK
2016.2.22-27 ‘Intimate Projection’ Menier Gallery London UK
2016.3.17-18 ‘Art Wot We Made’ 21 Grosvenor Way London UK
2016.5.25-30 ‘Moment’ Coningsby Gallery London UK W1T 4RJ
2016.6.27-7.2 “Line of Edge” Art in Gallery 4 Chom -25-3 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo Japan
2017.4.2-9 ‘Spring’ The St.Petersburg Union of artists, Bolshaya Morskaya street 38 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2017.3.27-31 Aktivität bin Espacio Creativo, Carrer Topazi, 21 08012, Barcelona, Spain
2017.6.5-10 ‘Parallel Existence’ Bloomsbury Gallery, 34 Bloomsbury St, London, UK
2018.1.15-19 SU Gallery, LCC, London, UK
2018.1.15-21 ‘TATE EXCHANGE’, Blavatnik Building, Level 5, Bankside, London, UK
2018.3.9-11 ‘Appetite’, Apiary Studios,458 Hackney Rd, London, UK
2018.4.16-20 ‘Dang Xia’, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Lslip St, Westminster, London, UK
2018.10.15-18 ‘HABITAT’, The Street, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2018.11.8-15 Postgraduate Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2018.11.23 - 12.12 ‘The Age of New Babylon’, Lethaby Gallery, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2019.5.22- 26 Central Saint Martins Degree Shows 2019: Show One: Art, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2019.6.25-7.9 ‘NCL LDN’, Long Gallery and Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
2019.10.19 - 11.3 ‘Tiao Shui’(Diving) No. 73, 1285 Nong, HuaiHai Road, Shanghai, China.
2020.2.18 - 3.1 ‘Squeeze’, Karen Tronel, 18 Lillie Road, London, UK
2020.2.26 - 28 Big Space Exhibition, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA, London, UK
2021.8.28 - 10.13 ‘Vain’, Diving Art Space, 2nd Floor, No.3, Lane 185, Xinhua Road, Changning, Shanghai, China
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