Pi Li
Credit: Quaner Ge
Pi Li is a curator, art critic and art educator. He served as the Head of Art at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong from 2023 to 2026, before that he was Sigg Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at M+, Hong Kong (2012-2023), Deputy Executive Director of the Art Administration Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), (2001-2012), and co-Founder and Director of Universal Studio Beijing (2005-2012), later known as Boers-Li Gallery in Beijing.
His curatorial work includes Right Is Wrong — M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art (Whitworth Gallery in Manchester 2014, Bildmuseet in Umea 2015), Moist: Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (Beijing Millennium Monument Art Museum 2002), Fantasy Zone (Ilmin Museum of Art, Dong-A Ilbo 2001, Beijing Modern Art Center 2002), Image Is Power (He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen 2002). His publications include From Action to Concept (2015), Farewell to Moralism (2018), M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Art (2021), and Madame Song: A Life in Art and Fashion (2023).
Pi Li joined ICAST in 2021 and teaches courses on Exhibition History, Chinese Contemporary Art, International Curatorial Research & Theory, and History of Chinese Contemporary Art at ICAST.