Li Di (b 1963, Inner Mongolia, China)
Currently lives and works in Beijing & Ningbo, China and Braunschweig, Germany
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1986 and obtained a Master's degree from Free Art of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig in 1996. Li serves as a mentor for the Performance and Abstract Art Research Program at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a mentor for graduate students at the School of Experimental Art of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and a distinguished professor at the School of Design and Art at College of Science and Technology at Ningbo University.
Li’s works are collected by private collectors and important institutions both domestically and internationally, including the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), Long Museum (Shanghai), Art Museum of Ningbo (Ningbo), Yuan Art Museum (Beijing), National Grand Theater Art Gallery (Beijing), Nin Jiom Arts and Culture Foundation (Hong Kong), Rockefeller Art Foundation (New York), Brunswick City Government (Brunswick), and the Wolfenbüttel National Library (Wolfenbüttel) among others.