Contact
zhongkaili.us@gmail.com
Education
Yale University, School of Art
Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design
Work Experience
Made by SandwichIS A Gallery
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pratt Institute
Base Design
Parson School of Design
Yale University Art Gallery
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
Volunteer Experience
Jury, The One Club for Creativity
New York, 2022–2023
Design Director, The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
Pittsburgh, Aug. 2021–Oct. 2022
Co-Founder, Radical Characters
Boston, 2021–Present
Scholarships, Grants, Awards
Best Packaging Design 2023,
360° Design Award
Cultural Investment Portfolio Grant
Mass Cultural Council
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2021
Sanyu Scholarship,
Andrea Frank Foundation
Bronze Award, A’Design Award
Articles & Reviews
The Garden of Organic, Morphem-e-graphic Anonymity, Ernest Bryant, 2021
Zhongkai Li: Cultivating Paradise on a Universal Surface
New York, Maharam, 2020
Response To Gazing
University of Richmond,
Digital America, 2020
What can the poster offer the world? Zhongkai Li challenges the confines of the four familiar corners
It’s Nice That, 2020
Featured in Publications
C-Graphic, Japan, 2024
360° Design Magazine Issue 106, 2024
Design Annual 63 (Sept/Oct issue) Communication Arts, 2022
More is More, Victionary Publication, Hong Kong, 2021
Digital America, Issue No. 15, University of Richmond, 2020
International Poster Book, Co-authors, Co-editor, Graphic Design Festival Scotland, 2019
International Poster Book, Graphic Design Festival Scotland, 2017
Winner Designs, Co-authors, A' Design Award & Competition, 2014
Public Talks & Lectures
International Assembly Conference
Scotland, INTL International, 2023
Representation, Practice & Dialogue Boston, Contemporary Art Book Symposium, 2022
Poster is a reminder that we still live in the real world, Landing on Air, Vol. 93, 2022
Between Navigation London,
Royal College of Fine Art, 2021
Make Margins Providence,
RISD, 2021
Almost Too Much Storytelling Boston, Boston University, 2021
Shanghai Picnic Art Festival, 2021
Speculative Thinking in a Multi-Role Design Practice, Zui Bi She, 2020
Authorship in Design, APT (Architecture Practice Talks), 2020
Interviews
RadicalReturn
Hong Kong, 360° Design Magazine, 2023
Up next: Talented New Designers Create the Future
Tokyo, Axis Magazine, 2022
More is More
Hong Kong, Victionary Publication, 2021
What Alternative? The Rise of Independent Art Spaces in Pandemic-Era Shanghai, ArtAsiaPacific, 2021
Digital America (Issue 15)
University of Richmond, 2020
Q&A with Zhongkai Li
New York, Index:, 2020
International Poster Book
Glasgow, Graphic Design Festival Scotland, 2019
International Poster Book
Glasgow, Graphic Design Festival Scotland, 2017
Solo Exhibitions
Zhongkai Li: Drifting Fragments
Upper Iowa University, 2022
Prototype I
IS A GALLERY, Shanghai, 2021
Finding Patterns in Time and Place
Maharam, New York, 2020
Group Exhibitions & Screenings
China International Poster Biennial, Hangzhou, 2024
Design Shanghai, 2023
Stranger Things
Here Pittsburgh, 2022
The 7th International Exhibition on New Media Art
CICA Museum, Korea, 2021
Undocumented events and object permanence
Noemata, Arts Council Norway, 2020
Artist Screening: layers
The Bridgeport Art Trail, Bridgeport, 2019
Odds and Ends pop-up book exhibition
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, 2018
International Poster Exhibition
Scotland's Centre for Design & Architecture, Glasgow, 2017
China TDC: Typographic Design in China Invitation Exhibition
Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen, 2017
13ème Biennale des Poètes en Val-de-marne, 2015
X International Triennial of the Ecological Poster "the 4th Block , 2015
2015 Asia /Next—Poster Experimental Design Exhibition
Suzhou, Taipei, Seoul, 2015
The 11th Golden Bee Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design
Central House of Artist, Moscow 2014
Guest Critiques
Design & System, California State University, Los Angeles, 2023
Typography I, Parsons School of Design, 2022
Words, Images and Ideas, RISD Illustration Department, 2021
Thesis Group, Boston University Graphic Design Department, 2021
Screening, UnionDocs, New York, 2020
Digital Prototyping, Pratt Institution Graphic Design Department, 2020
Process and Production, Pratt Graphic Design Department, 2019
Branding and Messaging, Pratt Graphic Design Department, 2019
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