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Jessi Li is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work investigates the relationship between human intervention and the natural world. Li works primarily in ceramic and glass sculpture. They are 2024 NYSCA Support for Artist Grant recipient and will complete a large-scale outdoor work this summer at Stone Quarry Art Park. They hold a MFA in sculpture from Hunter College (2019), a BA in ceramics from Bard College at Simon’s Rock (2009), and a post-baccalaureate in Glass at VCU School of Art (2014). Li has exhibited nationally in group and solo exhibitions. Recent shows include Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge at Urban Glass (2024, Brooklyn, NY), Nowhere Fast at Olympia (2023, New York, NY), Heavy Show at Spring/Break (2022, New York, NY), 100 Sculptures at Anonymous Gallery (2021, New York, NY). Li was an artist in residence at Chautauqua School of Art and Pottery Northwest. Li teaches sculpture, ceramics, and glass casting at the Fashion Institute of Technolgy, Greenwich House Pottery, and privately.
EDUCATION
2019
MFA, Sculpture, Hunter College, New York, NY
2014
Post-Baccalaureate, glass, Virginia Commonwealth University
2009
BA, ceramics, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Gravity was an entity, with Amorelle Jacox, Management, New York, NY
2023
Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
Glow, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Nowhere Fast, Olympia, New York, NY
2021
Hercules Studio Program, New York, NY
Heavy Show, SPRING/BREAK, New York, NY
100 Sculptures, Anonymous gallery, New York, NY
Flesh of my Flesh, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2020
The Planter Show, Fort Makers, New York, NY
VACI Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
2018
Hunter College, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2016
Shuaspace, Jersey City, NJ
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Brewster, MA
2015
River House Arts, Perrysburg, OH
2014
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2013
Pratt Fine Arts Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012
Pottery Northwest Gallery, Seattle, WA
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
PUBLIC ART
2024
Stone Quarry Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 NYSCA Support for Artist Grant, Sponsored by Stone Quarry Art Park
2020 Chautauqua School of Art, Artist in Residence, Chautauqua, NY
2018 Hunter College, Kossak Travel Grant, New York, NY
2013 Artist Trust, GAP Grant, Seattle WA
2010-12 Pottery Northwest, Artist in Residence Seattle, WA
2010 PRATT Fine Arts Center, Art Bridge Fellowship, Seattle, WA