About

Li Wang’s paintings are charged with the particular sense of longing that emerges from a lack of belonging. Moving to New York from Beijing in 2021, Wang became deeply familiar with the feelings of displacement, loneliness and cultural shock shared by many Chinese immigrants. Painting became a way of making himself at home, creating intimate compositions in which figures quietly occupy domestic spaces.

Working primarily in oil on canvas, Wang has been greatly informed in his visual strategies by artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and Georges Seurat. This is reflected in his …