Dylan Li 李宗洋
b. 2000, Chongqing, China
[email protected]Dylan Li (b. Chongqing, China) is an artist working across performance, photography, video, and installation. His work investigates how images shape relationships between body, landscape, and space through shifting modes of perception. Drawing from photography, moving image, performance, and constructed environments, he treats image-making as a process of transfer, in which accumulation, fracture, reflection, and displacement continually reorganize visibility. Rather than presenting images as stable representations, his works create situations in which perception is redistributed, allowing familiar distinctions between body and landscape, intimacy and spectacle, or image and surface to remain unsettled. He now lives and works in Philadelphia.
Education
- 2026
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Master of Fine Arts, Fine Arts
Certificate in Experimental Ethnography - 2023
- Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, CN
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography
Selected Exhibitions
- 2026
- Satellite Systems, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
- Cross Talk, Nguyen Wahed, New York, NY
- Under Score, Gordon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Reliquary, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 2025
- Bangkok, Charles Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- slow blunt painful and incredibly inefficient, Charles Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 2024
- Far From Philadelphia, Widener Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA
Awards & Grants
- 2026
- The Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- The Halpern Rogath Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- 2025
- Multimodal Summer Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- The Halpern Rogath Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Illuminate the Arts Grant, Creative Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- 2024–26
- MFA Merit Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Experience
- 2026
- Instructor/Advisor, LensBright Initiative
- TA, The Chinese Body and Spatial Consumption in Chinatown, University of Pennsylvania
- 2025
- TA, Public Art and Issues of Spatial Consumption, University of Pennsylvania
- TA, Introduction to Photography, University of Pennsylvania
- 2024
- TA, Video I, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Experience
- 2026–
- Multimedia Producer, Dean’s Office, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- 2025–26
- Digital Print Technician, Department of Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Areas
- Digital Photography, Film Photography, Video Art