Fei Li is an interdisciplinary artist born in Minnan, China, and based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). Li’s artistic practice is a multifaceted exploration that spans painting, installation, performance, community engagement, and interactive experiences. Her work contemplates alternative possibilities for understanding cultural memory, creating immersive environments imbued with sensuality, physicality, and emotional depth. Through these spaces, Li invites reflection on the intersections of personal experience, collective memory, and the global forces that shape them.
Li’s recent project, When They Have Their Own Historians, has been granted the 2025 New York State Council on the Arts Grant and received funding through the 2024 and 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund. Additionally, the project is fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). She has been recognized with numerous fellowships, residencies, and grants, including the 2023 Create Change Fellowship at the Laundromat Project, the Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency for a Visual Artist at Yaddo, and the Jon Imber Painting Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Her other accolades include the City Artist Corps Grant and the Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant.
Li founded Accented Projects, a collaborative platform committed to transcending boundaries, nurturing collective action, and sparking social change. Her artistic inquiry centers on uncovering hidden histories and narratives, especially those formed at the intersections of labor, race, and diasporic identity. She investigates how political, social, and cultural structures are constructed and reinforced through language and how these constructs shape lived experiences — with particular attention to the histories of Asian labor migrants. Li strives to expose these subtle forces through her work and create art that prompts critical reflection on these histories.
