Born 1998. Lives and works in London, UK.

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Changpeng Li's works reflect on how the image-centric era has transformed our way of seeing. The media's lightning-fast production of images has compressed our viewing time, leading to a visual experience that's forced into an endless scroll, stripping away the depth of our gaze. As ways of seeing become increasingly flattened, the artist seeks to explore the resulting changes through the medium of painting.

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Li's paintings depict media images as a form of camera film. By overlaying perspectives from different image mediums, he invites viewers to recall the sense of alienation, rediscovering those messages that were once forgotten or marginalized. In this process, images from the media are taken back into the darkroom for “development” through painting, revealing their different underlying discursive structures.

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Education

2023

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

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Solo Exhibitions

2025

Night Night, Cub_ism_Artspace, Shanghai, China

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

New Poems, Modern Animals, Zurich, Switzerland

RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Z Generation of Third Culture: Interculture Child, Soul Art Center, Beijing, China

Crossing the Everyday, Night Café Gallery, London, UK

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2024

​Ephemeral Silhouette, Cub_ism_Artspace, Shanghai, China

In Minima Forma, Duran Contemporain Gallery, Montreal, Canada

Uncarved Block Unbleached Silk, Coningsby Gallery, London, UK

Laced with Dust, Studio West Gallery, London, UK

 

2023​​​

Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK

In Between, Entrance Space, Zhengzhou, China

​Night Boat, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK

RCA Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

 

Artist Talk

2023

"Artist Talk: Changpeng Li", Royal College of Art, London UK, March 2023

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​Press​

2024

CNTRFLD, 'Reimagining Media Imagery: A Conversation with Changpeng Li on Painting, Perception, and the Digital Age', CNTRFLD.ART, London, UK, 30 September 2024

Matilda Liu, 'Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk', ART PLUGGED, London, UK, 14 May 2024

Studio West, 'Laced with Dust', ART PLUGGED, London, UK, 30 April 2024

Maribelle Bierens, 'In the studio with Changpeng Li', where’s the frame?, London, UK, 3 March 2024

 

​2023

Runqiu Peng, 'Changpeng Li: Artist @oxoiso uses @oisoxo as a battlefield against popular images*', Made in Bed Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, UK, 18 September 2023

'RCA 2023 Online Show', Royal College of Art, London, UK, 29 June 2023

'Geometric Gardens: Mind on the Highway', The Pluralist, London, UK, 3 July 2023

'Issue 1: Drifting', CAP Art Magazine, Toronto, Canada, 1 May 2023

'Stories of In-between: Veiled by Shadow', The Pluralist, London, UK, 1 March 2023

'Stories of In-between: Penrose Maze', The Pluralist, London, UK, 1 March 2023

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