Photograph courtesy of Andrew James Weis.
Michelle Shengyu Li is an interdisciplinary artist born in Vancouver, Canada, currently based in Baltimore, USA.
Through sculpture, photo, and performance, she creates objects and spaces for diasporic belief and resilience. Her practice offers a meditative ground within the in-betweens of land, belonging, the ephemeral and the eternal.
Contact: michelleshengyuli@gmail.com
Instagram: @michellesyli
Through sculpture, photo, and performance, she creates objects and spaces for diasporic belief and resilience. Her practice offers a meditative ground within the in-betweens of land, belonging, the ephemeral and the eternal.
Contact: michelleshengyuli@gmail.com
Instagram: @michellesyli
Selected Works
2025
The Sunset / Eternal Horizon
Still Fire
2024
Instrument
Long Time (Ginkgo)
Flight Speculation I — Exhaustion
Flight Speculation II — Anchoring
To Bury a Bird
1+1+1+1+1
In Response to Explanation
Visualization of a Wish
2023
Meditations I — my god is dark
“god’s eye” / “god in a seed” I
“god’s eye” / “god in a seed” II
Untitled (Portrait)
noon
First Touch
How To Make A Wish
still life
2022
Between Blood, Breath and Sea
(血脉，不息，守望)
Selected Exhibitions
Where the Light Blows (Solo Exhibition, 2024)
If Birds Could Fly: On Speculative Futurisms (Curatorial, 2024)