Bio

Asian American artist collaborative Lily Honglei is based in New York. Their practice involves both traditional and new media art, notably paintings, video art, virtual reality, and augmented reality projects. Lily Honglei’s artworks have been presented at numerous prestigious venues for contemporary art, including Museum of Art and Design in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum of Art in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, The Painting Center of New York, Eyebeam Art Technology Center New York, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in New York, Asian American Art Alliance in New York, Dumbo Art Festival in New York, Boston Cyberart Festival, Zero1 Biennial of New Media Art in San Jose CA, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, University Gallery at University of Massachusetts, Musée Guimet in Paris, Museum of Ara Pacis in Rome, Museum of San Salvador in Lauro, Rome, He Xiangning Art Museum in China, Shanghai University Gallery in China, SIGGRAPH Art Gallery and SIGGRAPH Asia, to name a few. Lily Honglei received awards including People’s Choice Award at Museum of Art & Design in New York, Creative Capital 2015 Award for Moving Image & Visual Arts, New York Foundation of Arts Fellowship 2015, among others. They have accomplished large-scaled commission projects for New York State Council on the Arts in 2018 and 2020, Jamaica Flux Triannual festival at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning NY in 2014 and 2017, Queens Council on the Arts in 2016, 2019 and 2021, Creative Capital Foundation in 2015, Jerome Foundation in 2014 via Turbulence.org, among others.