1986 Born in Hubei. He moved from Beijing to Shanghai in 2018. His work involves multiple media such as video, performance, painting, installation and writing, etc. In recent years, he embarked on a journey surveying the antagonist roles in theatre, stage art, make-up design, the production of imported films and espionage films since 1950s in China. The artist often writes images through collections of photo documents, character scenes, and dubbed monologues. Meanwhile, he also expands the more complex and personalized time and space of this writing in painting, sound, and installation.

Li Ran has exhibited at the Center Pompidou, Pairs; basis door actuele kunst (BAK), Utrecht; Huas der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Houston; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal; The Museum of Moscow, Moscow; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; NTU Center For Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), Singapore; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila; HOW Museum, Shanghai, Sifang Museum, Nanjing; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen, Shanghai and Xi’an; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
(UCCA), Beijing; CAFA Museum (CAFAM), Beijing; and other venues, He has held solo exhibition at OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Xi’an (2015); His single-channel video work also screening in Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London; The Jewish Museum, New York and other venues; His works have also been featured in Montreal Biennale (2014), Biennale Of Moving Images 2014 (2014 In Geneva), 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2014), 2nd CAFAM Biennial (2014), 4th “Former West” Project (2013, In Berlin), 9th Gwangju Biennial (2012), 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012). He won the “Best Artist Award” at the 2014 Moscow International Youth Art Biennial and was nominated for the “Future Generation Award” by the Pinchuk Arts Center in 2017.

1986年出生於湖北。他在2018年從北京遷居上海。他的創作涉及影像、表演、繪畫、裝置、 寫作等多重媒介，近幾年，他的開啟了自中國50年代以來對於話劇、舞台美術和化妝、譯制 片生產和制作、諜戰電影中反面角色設置的考察之旅。藝術家常常通過照片文獻收藏、角色 場景擺拍、配音模仿獨白進行影像寫作，同時他也在繪畫、聲音、裝置等創作里擴充著這種 書寫的更加覆雜與個人化的時空。

他的作品曾在巴黎蓬皮杜中心，柏林世界文化宮，烏德勒支BAK藝術中心，休斯頓當代美術 館，蒙特利爾當代美術館，莫斯科國家美術館，日內瓦當代藝術中心，舊金山CCAWattis當 代藝術中心，新加坡NTU當代藝術中心，馬尼拉當代藝術與設計美術館，北京尤倫斯當代藝 術中心，北京中間美術館，上海昊美術館，南京四方美術館;OCT當代藝術中心的深圳館、 上海館與西安館等機構展覽，並在OCT當代藝術中心的西安館舉辦過個展(2015);他的單 屏影像作品也在紐約猶太美術館，倫敦ICA當代藝術機構等機構、獨立電影節及藝術節進行 放映;同時他也曾參加過蒙特利爾雙年展(2014)，日內瓦動態影像雙年展(2014)，第四 屆莫斯科國際青年藝術雙年展(2014)，第二屆CAFAM雙年展(2014)，在柏林的第四次 “前西”項目(2013)，第九屆光州雙年展(2012)，第七屆深圳雕塑雙年展(2012)。

他在2014年莫斯科國際青年藝術雙年展中獲得“最佳藝術家獎”，並被由平丘克藝術中心2017 年舉辦的“未來世代獎”提名入圍。