Li Hongwei is a contemporary artist. He works and lives in Beijing and New York. His works have been acquired by The British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Israel Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Philadelphia Museum of Art, etc. His works have been exhibited in a number of international art institutions, including the National Art Museum of China, The US Embassy, The New Mexico Museum of Art, The Fox Art Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Dublin Castle in Ireland, etc.
Hongwei holds a bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing; a master’s in ceramic art from the New York State College of Ceramics at the Alfred University at Alfred, NY. As a visiting artist, he has been invited to give lectures in different institutions, including Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Major Museum Exhibitions
Becoming Harmonius: The Art of Li Hongwei
Long Museum, Shanghai 2022
Upwellling of Gravity #9
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021 - 2022
Brillliant Illusions: Crated Forms by Li Hongwei
University of Kentucky Art Museum, 2021 - 2022
Museum and Corporate Collection
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2023
The Hun School, Princeton, NJ, 2023
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, 2022
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2022
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2022
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2022
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2021 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 2021
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 2021
Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Spring, NY, 2021
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 2020
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2020
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2020
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY, 2019
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, NY, 2019
Vassar College Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2018
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2018
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
The British Museum, London, UK, 2017
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 2017
MGM COTAI, Macao, China, 2017
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2016
He Art Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2016
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2015
China APEC International Conference Center, Beijing, 2014
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, 2012
Herrick Memorial Library, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 2008 Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY, 2007
Essay
Brilliant Illusions: Crafted Forms by Li Hongwei
by Stuart Horodner, Director of University of Kentucky Art Museum
Li Hongwei: Contemporary Chinese Ceramic Sculpture
by Michelle Millar Fisher, Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick, Curator of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Li Hongwei: Re: Vision
by Andrew L. Maske, Professor of Art History, Wayne State University
Li Hongwei: Tradition and Change
by Michaël Amy, Professor of Art History, Rochester Institute of Technology
Materiality and Thing: A Comment on Li Hongwei’s Ceramic Sculptures
by Tao Wang, Pritzker Chair of Asian Art & Curator of Chinese Art, The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait: The Art of Li Hongwei
by Wayne Higby, Director and Chief Curator of Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University
Summoning Eternal Life
by Dr. Mary Drach McInnes, Professor & Division Head of Art History, Alfred University
The Power of Lightness in Contemporary Art: Sculptures of Li Hongwei
by Yiqing Li, Ph.D. of art history at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
