YING LI is an American painter and art educator, born in Beijing, China. She immigrated to the United States in 1983. She is the Phlyssa Koshland Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College. She earned a BFA from Anhui Normal University, China, China, in 1977, and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1987.

Li’s work is represented by Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY; Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia; Alice Gauvin Projects in Washington, D.C.; and Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Dallas, Texas.

Her work has been featured internationally at Centro Incontri Umani Ascona, Switzerland; ISA Gallery, Italy; Enterprise Gallery, Ireland; Museum of Rochefort-en-Terre, France; the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the National Academy Museum; the Hood Museum, NH; the James A. Michener Art Museum, PA; the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, VA; the Aspen Institute, CO; the Chautauqua Institution, NY; the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, FL; the New York Studio School; New Art Dealers Alliance; Lohin Geduld Gallery; Elizabeth Harris Gallery; Lori Bookstein Projects; Tibor de Nagy Gallery (all in New York City); Gross McCleaf Gallery; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

She has received the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize and the Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award, both from the National Academy in New York City. She has served as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome; Donald Jay Gordon Visiting Artist and Lecturer at Swarthmore College; Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College; McMillan Stewart Visiting Critic at the Maryland Institute College of Art; Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist at the University of Tulsa; and 2024 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University. She has also been the recipient of fellowships from the Ballinglen Foundation (Ireland) and various residential programs in Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, France, and at Kingsley Plantation, Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, FL.

Li’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, The New York Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The Washington Post, among others.

More of Li’s work may be appreciated on her website.