About
LI CHEN
Born 1985, Israel | Lives and works in Israel
Biography
Li Chen is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance. She holds a B.Des in Ceramics and Glass Design from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2013).
Her artistic practice explores themes of gender, identity, memory, and transformation, drawing on personal experiences, mythology, cultural symbols, and rituals. Working with diverse materials, including glass, latex, plaster, metal, and found objects, Chen combines traditional craftsmanship with experimental processes to create works that move between the familiar and the uncanny, the intimate and the collective.
Artist Statement
My artistic practice explores the boundaries between the human body, identity, memory, and the shifting territories between reality and imagination. Working across sculpture, installation, glass, photography, and video, I create figures and objects that inhabit a space between the familiar and the uncanny, the human and the artificial, the sacred and the profane.
My figures often emerge as fragments of myself, embodying personal memories, emotions, and inner experiences. Through faceless, fragmented, and hybrid forms, I explore the tension between what is revealed and what remains concealed. Drawing on mythology, religious rituals, historical imagery, and cultural ideals of beauty, I intertwine intimate narratives with collective symbols.
Materiality and craftsmanship are central to my practice. Through glass casting, hand sewing, molding, and sculpting, I investigate the relationships between fragility and permanence, perfection and imperfection. Each material carries its own physical and symbolic qualities, becoming an extension of the body and its memory.
I am drawn to moments of transformation, where forms exist between states and identities resist fixed definitions. Through the coexistence of beauty and unease, vulnerability and strength, I seek to create spaces that invite viewers to encounter both the unfamiliar and something deeply recognizable within themselves.
2026 “Aviya's Summer” Contemporary Art Gallery, Ramat Hasharon
2026 “The Door in the Wall” Curator Adi Shabtay Pappo, Hazuk Gallery, Natania
2026 “Annual Benefit Art Sale in support of Maya Gallery”, Tel Aviv
2026 ״A Serving of Color and Hope” Artists painting in support of lone soldiers, curated by Orit Reich, Uri Lifshitz Building, Tel-Aviv
2026 Artists for “Levinsky Garden Library”, Curated by Ravit Harari, Tel Aviv
2026 “Gvul Dak” Group exhibition, B.y5 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2025 “Hafrashat Challah” Group exhibition, ANU- Museum Of The Jewish People, Tel-Aviv
2025 “Liminis”, Solo exhibition, Curator Nir Harmat, B.y5 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2025 “New Year” Group exhibition Zemack Contemporary Art (ZCA), Tel-Aviv
2025 “Fresh Paint” Group exhibition Zemack Contemporary Art (ZCA), Tel-Aviv
2024/25 “Blue” Group exhibition, Ben Tauber Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2024 "Our-Father” Group Exhibition Zuzu Gallery, Emek Chefer
2024 “Fresh Paint”, Group exhibition, Zemack Contemporary Art (ZCA), Tel-Aviv
2022/25 “Group Exhibitions” Zemack Contemporary Art (ZCA)
2023 "Fresh Paint” Duo exhibition Li Chen & Kobi Assaf Zemack, Contemporary Art (ZCA), Tel-Aviv Jaffa
2021/22 “Stampa”, Group Exhibition, Pardes Hanna
2020/21 “Crafts and Design Biennale” Group Exhibition Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv
2018/19 "Shop It! “ Group Exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2018/19 "SHEVER" Video-Art Group Exhibition The Glass Pavilion, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv
2018 "Gala Night” Group Exhibition, Tollmans, Herzliya.
2018 "Unresolved Issues" Group Exhibition, Urban Glass”, New York
2018 "Godiva" Solo Exhibition, Beit-Kandinof , Tel-Aviv Jaffa
2017 “Paraphernalia” Solo exhibition, Almacen Gallery, Jaffa
2016 "Mirpeset" Group Exhibition, Loving art TLV, Tel-Aviv
2015 “Israeli Glass Biennale” Group Exhibition, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv
2014 “MicroCosmos” Group Exhibition, Artyfyori Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2013 “Les Hivernales”, Group Exhibition, Paris
2013 “Frog Kiss” Final Project Exhibition, Ceramic & Glass Design Dpt, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design Jerusalem.
2011/12 “Art semester” Group Exhibition, VSUP/AAAD Academy of Arts Architecture and Design, Prague
Awards, Grants
2026 Artist Residency, Provence, France
2018 Scholarship Granted By AIDA, Corning Museum Of Glass, Corning, NY, USA
2014 Scholarship Granted By AIDA, Corning Museum Of Glass | Corning, NY, USA
2013 Final Project “Frog Kiss” Glass Installation was awarded in the Dr. Polonsky Award for excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
Private Collections Internationally Including In New York / The Netherlands/ Israel
Info
Studio Ramat-Gan, Israel
Gallery Zemack Contemporary Art (ZCA) |
E-mail li.chen.at@gmail.com