· YURAN Li (Portia)
b.1995 Shijiazhuang. Based in London
2017 - 2019 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London, London.
2013 - 2017 BA, (A fucking institutional Art department in a decayed comprehensive university)
· Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
February
Quote， Unquote， Ugly Duck, London
2022
August
This Is Essential Work, curated by Michal Nahman and Susan Newman, Online
A room of one's own， Safehouse 1， London
May
Sex Re-boot， IKLECTIK， London
2021
June
BlueCables Residency Show, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
January
A Dialogue In Winter, Biennial Art 2020, Yanjiao
2020
December
Cyberfeminism, No Space Gallery, Online
June
Body Soul and Time, No Space Gallery, Online
2019
October
Parallax Art Fair, Parallax Art Fair London, London
The Surreality of Fear， BSB Gallery， Trenton
Arche of Realm, No Space Gallery, Online
August
Exquisite Body，Home 「form」room artist studio，London
July
Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show， Goldsmiths University of London， London
May
Say Aaaaaahhhhhh, The Old Operating Theatre, London
2018
October
The Living Room, Space Honey* Bad Art, London
September
Gold X, Deptford X Exhibition, London
July
Goldsmiths Interm show, Goldsmiths，London
March
One-Day Store Exhibition, Deptford Market, London
2017
December
Auction the Truth, Goldsmiths University of London, London
June
Self-evident, Shanxi Art Institute，Taiyuan
· Workshops
2019
November
Hold Workshop Sculpting Society With the Body， Wanying Art Museum，Shijiazhuang
October
Hold workshop Body Whispers: a workshop in Contact Improvisation, collaborate with Transparent Domin, Saw Swee Hock Centre, London
2018
Widening the Gaze： A conference exploring the role of race in creative practice，Slade Research Center，London （21st，March）
· Art Activity
2019
October
Exhibit in Parallax Art Fair， Parallax Art Fair London， London
Curator Assistant at Arthill Gallery，London
May
Media operation of Say Aaaaahhhhhh, The Old Operating Theatre, London
2018
August
Performance for Clara Pereda, Chisenhale studio (28th, August)
July
Sound control for Puta, Goldsmiths, London (12th, July)
December
Performance for Rachel Chang: There Is Nothing In the Dark Except the Dead Gaze of a Copy, Arebyte Gallery, London (2nd, December)
2016
Intern at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Intern at Shijiazhuang Art Museum, Shijiazhuang
2019
March Goldsmiths Alumni and Friends Fund，Goldsmiths，London
2019
November BLANC art show, the Oculus World Trade Centre, New York
· Press
BOOK
Widening the Gaze， Slade School of Fine Art，2018
MAGAZINE
The Art Columnist, 3rd Edition
Wotisart issue#29，2019
FAKfulness Magazine issue#2，2019
Artqol Magazine August issue
ONLINE
Artisle Talk | Portia x Performance : Physical Theater + Fiction, Artisle, by Wang king
Goldsmiths Degree Show Press, The Room LDN, by QY
Portia Lee, Artist from Beijing, Interview by Hideaki Hara
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Portia Yuran Li’s sculptures and paintings are inspired by artefacts, religious myths, and immigration affect. She constantly responds to the dual enmity and interdependence of people‘s intimacy, the collision of morality and power, and the porous boundary between reality and myth. Portia sees herself as a prophet her performance work generates a closed-loop narrative which focuses on bringing up the sensation feeling of the viewers.
Portia’s intellectual and aesthetic frames of reference are wide-ranging: classical mythology and myths of China, modern choreography as well as contact improvisation, art history as well as Buddhism, occultism, cosmology and alchemy.