RESUME

Jessi Li is a Brooklyn-based artist whose sculpture examines the human impact on the environment and our greater role in the cosmic scheme. In 2024 Li received support from NYSCA and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. Select exhibitions include: Stone Quarry Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, (forthcoming); The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL (2025); Management, NY, NY (2024); Urban Glass Brooklyn, NY (2024,2020); Olympia, NY, NY (2023); Spring/Break, NY, NY (2023); Anonymous Gallery, NY, NY(2022). Li was a visiting scholar at Syracuse University (2024), and an artist in residence at Stone Quarry Art Park (2024-25), Chautauqua School of Art (2020) and Pottery Northwest (2011-13). They hold a MFA from Hunter College (2019), a BA from Bard College at Simon’s Rock (2009), and a post-baccalaureate from VCU School of Art (2014). Li’s work has been published in the New Glass Review, White Hot Magazine and Vogue. Their work is in the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody.

EDUCATION

MFA Studio Art, Clay/Casting/Sculpture, Hunter College, 2019

Post-Baccalaureate, Glass, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014

BA, Ceramics/3D Design, Magna cum laude, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2009

TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

Management, Gravity was an entity, with Amorelle Jacox, New York, NY 2024

Olympia Art, Nowhere Fast, with Cassidy Early, and Matt Jones, New York, NY 2023

PUBLIC WORK

Stone Quarry Art Park, Sister Cistern, Public installation in collaboration with Becky Sellinger,, Cazenovia, NY, forthcoming summer 2025

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

The Bunker Artspace, annual exhibition, West Palm Beach, FL, 2024 - 25

Parent Company, P.A.D x Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY, 2024

Urban Glass, Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, Brooklyn, NY, 2023-24 

BravinLee Programs, Glow: Artists’ Lamps, New York, NY, 2023

Greenwich House Pottery, In House, New York, NY, 2023

Walter Elwood Museum, In with the Old: 5 Years of Project Art Distribution, Amsterdam, NY, 2021 - 2022

Spring/Break, Heavy Show with Catskills, New York, NY, 2021

NADA x Foreland, Marquette, P.A.D. Gallery at, Catskill, NY, 2021

Anonymous Gallery, 100 Sculptures - NYC, New York, NY, 2021    

Urban Glass, Flesh of my Flesh, curated by Baseera Khan Brooklyn, NY, 2021

Fort Makers, The Planters Show, New York, NY, 2020

VACI Galleries, AIR Exhibition, Chautauqua, NY, 2020

Hunter College, MFA Thesis Exhibition, A Certain Slant of Light, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY 2018

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

Stone Quarry Art Park, Visiting Artist, Cazenovia, NY,  2024 - 25

Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, 2024

NYSCA Support for Artists Grant, 2024 

Chautauqua School of Art, Artist in Residence, Chautauqua, NY 2020

Hunter College, Kossak Travel Grant, New York, NY 2018

VISITING ARTIST

Syracuse University, Visiting Scholar, Sculpture and Ceramics, 2024. 

Hunter College, Lecturer, MFA Sculpture and Ceramics, 2024, 2015. 

Fashion Institute of Technology, Visiting Critic, Fine Arts Department, 2021, 2022, New York, NY. 

COLLECTIONS

The Bunker Artspace, The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, West Palm Beach, FL

PUBLICATIONS

New Glass Review 44, “Curators’ Perspectives,” Alpesh Kantilal Patel, 2024. 

Whitehot Magazine, “On Gravity was an entity: Amorelle Jacox and Jessi Li at Management, NYC,” Kirsten Cave, 2024

Artforum, “Artguide Must See,” Nowhere Fast at Olympia, 2023

Vogue ,“A First Look at ‘The Planter Show,’ Lilah Ramzi, 2020

Pin-Up, “Green Room: The Planter Show Organized by Fort Makers Design Studio,” Karina Encarnación, 2020

Art Spiel: Reflections on the work of contemporary artists, Belonging to P.A.D., Sophia Ma,, 2020

Ginger Zine, Issue #17: Summer, www.gingerzine.net, 2019