YUELIN LI
Yuelin Li works across kinetic sculpture, installation, and painting. Her practice investigates relationality as a generative structure, attending to the shifting intervals between presence and distance, attachment and withdrawal. Connection in her work unfolds as a temporal modulation rather than a fixed state. Contact, suspension, and separation operate as internal reorganizations within a field of relation, producing forms that remain provisional and unstable. Solitude functions as a structural ground from which proximity emerges, recalibrates, and dissipates. Through mechanical motion and suspended gestures on canvas, she stages conditions of oscillation and deferral. Materials participate as active agents within these processes, articulating their own rhythms across time. Her works inhabit transitional thresholds, where relational forms persist in states of ongoing displacement and continuous becoming. Yuelin Li works across kinetic sculpture, installation, and painting. Her practice investigates relationality as a generative structure, attending to the shifting intervals between presence and distance, attachment and withdrawal. Connection in her work unfolds as a temporal modulation rather than a fixed state. Contact, suspension, and separation operate as internal reorganizations within a field of relation, producing forms that remain provisional and unstable. Solitude functions as a structural ground from which proximity emerges, recalibrates, and dissipates. Through mechanical motion and suspended gestures on canvas, she stages conditions of oscillation and deferral. Materials participate as active agents within these processes, articulating their own rhythms across time. Her works inhabit transitional thresholds, where relational forms persist in states of ongoing displacement and continuous becoming. Yuelin Li works across kinetic sculpture, installation, and painting. Her practice investigates relationality as a generative structure, attending to the shifting intervals between presence and distance, attachment and withdrawal. Connection in her work unfolds as a temporal modulation rather than a fixed state. Contact, suspension, and separation operate as internal reorganizations within a field of relation, producing forms that remain provisional and unstable. Solitude functions as a structural ground from which proximity emerges, recalibrates, and dissipates. Through mechanical motion and suspended gestures on canvas, she stages conditions of oscillation and deferral. Materials participate as active agents within these processes, articulating their own rhythms across time. Her works inhabit transitional thresholds, where relational forms persist in states of ongoing displacement and continuous becoming.

Yuelin Li works across kinetic sculpture, installation, and painting. Her practice investigates relationality as a generative structure, attending to the shifting intervals between presence and distance, attachment and withdrawal. Connection in her work unfolds as a temporal modulation rather than a fixed state.

Contact, suspension, and separation operate as internal reorganizations within a field of relation, producing forms that remain provisional and unstable. Solitude functions as a structural ground from which proximity emerges, recalibrates, and dissipates.

Through mechanical motion and suspended gestures on canvas, she stages conditions of oscillation and deferral. Materials participate as active agents within these processes, articulating their own rhythms across time. Her works inhabit transitional thresholds, where relational forms persist in states of ongoing displacement and continuous becoming.

EDUCATION
2023 - 2025
Parsons School of Design
MFA in Design and Technology
2018 - 2022
Tsinghua University
BFA in Art and Technology
EXHIBITION
2025
Internet of Strings, NYC Resistor, New York, US
2025
Mosaic, Parsons the New School, New York, US
2024
Stay: Round Trips to America from Asia,  25 East Gallery, New York, US
2024
ENTER here_, Grace Exhibition Centre, New York, US
2022
Graduation Exhibition, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CN
2022
Decision Boundary, Meta-Curation 10/N, online
2021
Hyper_Connection, the 10th Beijing International Design Week, 798 art district, Beijing, China
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
2025
Interview with Yuelin Li, Visual Art Journal
2025
Meet Yuelin Li, Bold Journey
CURATION
2025
Intimate Aftergesture, 25 East Gallery, New York, US
2025
Welcome to Wherever You Are, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Australia
2021
New Media Strategy After the Goal of Science and Technology is Blurred, Lishui, CN
AWARD
2024
Parsons Graduate Student Research Fund, Parsons the New School
2023
Parsons Scholarship, Parsons the New School, New York, NY
2019
Recommended Curator, The Third International Photography Symposium
2020
Competition Grand Prize, Best Commercial Potential Award Work, Computing Contest-2020 WeChat Mini Program
2020
Finalist, NetEase MINIGAME 48 Hour Challenge
CONTACT
E-mail
yuelinli2000@gmail.com
Instagram
@yuelinliii