Orange Li

My practice largely draws from my memories, dreams, and the intuitive connection between the body and the psychological state of the individual. I delve into the interconnectedness between nature, time-space travel, and herstory while also examining the potential relationship among art, spirituality, and storytelling. 

I faced immense challenging issues growing up, such as poverty, gender discrimination, the commodification of girls/women, and sexual violence. Therefore creating is a coping mechanism to deal with the pain within my mind and body. It transforms the internal struggle into the pathways towards beauty and confronts horrors in life. I examine the dualities like sliding dials in-between changing nature elements, cultures, dreams and reality, and life and death. 

I aim to address societal norms and give voice to the hidden and oppressed aspects through herstory while holding a thread of hope to explore the wonder in nature.  My work searches for the links that connect the human and natural worlds in an attempt to create a Gesamtkunstwerk (universal artwork), synthesizing different forms of knowledge into my own aesthetic logic.

My work has been shown in select exhibitions such as Bienvenu Steinberg & C, New York (2025), The Drawing Center Benefit Show, New York (2024), Latchkey Gallery, New York (2024), Elza Kayal Gallery, New York (2023); Taiwanese American Arts Council, Government Island (2023) ; SVA ContinuEd Project Gallery, New York (2022); Village One Arts Gallery, New York (2021, 2023); Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (2021); Monira Foundation, Jersey City (2021) and Art Taipei, InSian Gallery, Taiwan (2020)

“Starmaker Prayer Ritual“ Performance at Governors Island
Photo credit to Wei-Ta Chen, 2023

Tea Ceremony of Inner Alchemy
2023
Director Yu Shao Chen
Cinematographer Margarita Mina

In Studio: Orange Li
2022
Directed by Meiting Li, Nianxin Li
Filmed by Meiting Li, Ningyi Jiang, Jiashuo Li
Edited by Meiting Li