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 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). I am also the author and artist of the book The Door to the Infinite Dream (2019). I received an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts.

“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