FENG Li
フェン・リー（馮立）
Born in 1971 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China, FENG Li is a self-taught artist.
Feng's photos are all fortuitous encounters with the unlikely cast of reality that’s taken center stage in his native city of Chengdu. He has an eye beyond the norm and a vision that detects the very spectacle of the mundane everyday. To Feng Li, girls in mini skirts, old ladies in fake fur, misbehaving kids, wandering homeless and all these characters on the street are in their own way playing different roles in this great fiction of ordinary life. May he be photographing a sedative congress or moving freely through the weekend crowd, Feng Li has constantly nourished his single, unique and plethoric series 'White Night' since 2005.
Feng Li has been internationally recognized including receiving the Jimei x Arles Discovery Award at Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival in 2017, Best Photographer Prize at Jinan International Photo Biennale in 2012 and Grand Jury Prize at the 8th Lianzhou Lianzhou Photo Festival in 2012. He’s also participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions around the world since 2007 including most recently solo show ‘White Not’ at Galerie f16 (Paris, 2020), ‘Utopia’ at Buchkunst (Berlin, 2020), BredaPhoto Festival (Breda, 2020), ' A Fantastic Night at the Art Museum' at A4 Museum (Chengdu, 2020), Festival Les Rencontres de la Photographie (Arles, 2018), Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival (Xiamen, 2017), China Anren Biennale (Chengdu, 2017), 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography at Three Shadows (Beijing, 2017).
Publications
2020 - ‘White Not’, Galerie f16
2018 - ‘Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival Catalogue’, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival 2017 ‘White Night’, Jiazazhi
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 - Galerie f16, ‘White Not’, Paris, France
2017 - ‘White Night’, Paris, France
2016 - Nanjing University of Arts, ‘White Night’, Nanjing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 - Photo Saint Germain, ‘White Night in Paris’, Paris, France
2020 - Buchkunst, ‘Utopia’, Berlin, Germany
2020 - BredaPhoto Festival, ‘China Imagined’, Breda, Netherlands
2020 - A4 Museum, ‘A Fantastic Night at the Art Museum’, Chengdu, China 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China
2019 - New Art History 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, Yin Chua, China 2019 Beyond Fashion, Hong Kong
2018 - Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Jimei, China
2018 - Arles International Photo Festival, Arles, France
2018 - Wanying Art Museum, ‘Negative Positive’, Shijiazhuang, China
2018 - AMNUA Photography Exhibition 2018, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing,China
2017 - LOOP: Photography and Video Experiments in Southwestern, Chengdu, China
2017 - Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2017 - China Anren Biennale, Chengdu, China
2017 - 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Beijing, China
2016 - Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
2016 - Power Station of Art, ‘Snacks’, Shanghai, China
2016 - Red Brick Art Museum, ‘This Future of Ours’, Beijing, China
2015 - Beijing International Photo Biennale, Beijing, China
2015 - Changjiang International Image Biennale, Chongqing, China
2014 - 10th Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
2013 - Multi-dimensional View III: Chengdu Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Chengdu, China 2012 Jinan International Photo Biennale, Jinan, China
2012 - 8th Lianzhou Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
2009 - Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
2009 - Multi-dimensional View I: Chengdu Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Chengdu, China 2007 Guangzhou Photo Biennale, Guangzhou, China
Awards
2014 - 2014 Top 20 Emerging Chinese Contemporary Photographers and Chinese Contemporary Photography Rankings
2012 - Best Photographer Prize, Jinan International Photo Biennale 2012 Grand Jury Prize, 8th Lianzhou Photo Festival
