Muhua Li was born in 1995 in Guangdong, China. She has studied at the Affiliated High School of the Central Acade- my of Fine Arts (China) and the Glasgow School of Art (UK). She currently lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen. By observing the subtleties of everyday objects and memories, she eliminates excess colors and emotions, allowing her paintings to exude a calm and introverted atmosphere. The relationships between basic forms and the correspondence of light and dark blocks are sufficient to express her perceptual experiences. Her rational and restrained painting language contains a delicate and enduring warmth. These two conflicting characteristics imbue the paintings with a sense of detachment, removing the representation of material entities being artificially trained. Instead, they point to the act of “gazing and viewing” itself in the present moment. She participated in the Longlati Foundation Artist-in-Residency Program (Shanghai) and her solo exhibition “Alles in Ordnung” was held by Longlati Foundation in 2024.
