LI YU 李钰

Li Yu is a Chinese artist based in London and Beijing. Her multidisciplinary practice has developed to include elements of sculpture, performance, concrete poetry, video and sound within immersive sculptural installations. She seeks to critique social structures and explore themes related power, linguistics and to the complexities of the idea of common knowledge. Her works have been exhibited at: CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (The Great of Sculpture — 90 Years Seminar of Sculpture Discipline of Central Academy of Fine Arts), Ruthin International Arts Festival, Ruthin, Guardian Art Centre, Beijing (Art Nova100), AMP Gallery, London and Christie’s, London (Christie’s Lates).

Li Yu is also the co-founder of the artist-led collective DUMP.

Education
2021-2023 Slade School of Fine Arts, MFA fine art
2015-2020 Central Academy of Fine Arts, BA fine art

Selected Exhibitions
2025 Planned Obsolescence, Seager Galley, London, UK
2025 The Archiveof Forgotten Forms, Seager Gallery, London, UK
2024The Grand Series of Sculpture: 90 Years of the Sculpture Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China
2024 Ruthin International Art Festival, Ruthin, UK
2024 Essential Structures, Gerald Moore gallery, London, UK
2024 Welcome to the UK, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2023 Slade Postgraduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2023 Art Nova100, Guardian Art Centre, Beijing, China.
2023 O7 | a gesture?? AMP Gallery. London, UK.
2023 Frameless Contact, Old Bromptong Gallery, London, UK.
2023 Outlanders: Dreams of a New Moon, Christie's Lates, London, UK.
2022 At the Edge of Safe House, Safe House, London, UK
2022 SYNTHESIS, The Tub Gallery, London, UK
2022 The Joys and Sorrows of Humans aren’t Interlinked, The Bhavan gallery London, UK
2020 CAFA Degree Show (BA) , Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2019 From the Beginning,Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China
2019 Sculpture Passage Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China