Li Jikai China, b. 1975

Lives and works in Wuhan, China.

Li Jikai graduated with a Master Degree from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. 

Jikai's work is considered part of the called Ego Generation, whose work focuses on the artist’s inner world and illustrates a transitional stage within the process of individualization born out of the recent socio-economic transformation of China in the past 30 years. Li Jikai reflects, through his painting, about solitude, loneliness, confusion, autism and egocentricity. He is interested in depict individual subjective realities.  In many of Li Jikai’s large-scale, typically in a somber palette, a diminutive human appears to be observing the turbulent outside world and the fragile relationship between humanity and environment, central ideas of his oeuvre. 

 Li Jikai has participated in exhibitions and art fairs domestically and abroad, included solo exhibitions at Today Art Museum; Arario Gallery, Seoul; Fine Arts Literature Art Center, China; Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts, Shanghai, among others. His most notably group exhibitions include: Beyond Art Space, Beijing; Found Museum, Beijing; Arken Art Museum, Copenhage; The Pacific Heritage Museum, San Francisco; MoCA, Shanghai; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok; COBRA Museum, Amsterdam; and Art Basel, Miami.