Zhongkai Li


2026
2025
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2023
2022
2021

In Studio
About
CV

Curation


Return
watercolor on sewn canvas
11 ×18 in.



Underneath
watercolor on sewn canvas
14 ×22 in.











Yesterday, in green
watercolor on sewn canvas
14 ×18 in.
























Waking up
watercolor on sewn canvas
11 × 30 in.











Working processMy work often leads me into a flow state, in no particular order; simultaneously and spontaneously: drawing, painting, cutting, replacing, moving, laying, gazing, finding, collaging, sewing, staining, waiting.

I see the studio as a stage. The process is highly physical, engaging different parts of my body. My gestures follow how I feel. From the floor, to the desk, to the wall: looking up, looking down, looking straight, bending, moving, holding, pressing, pouring.

The process often continues until I am exhausted. All of it becomes part of the final work.