Li Shuo Phoebe (b.2004) is based in Los Angeles / Hong Kong and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree with minor in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Phoebe's practice questions and subtly satirizes the concept of “resilience,” an ambiguous yet sexy term. Using her own body, and by extension a shared or “collective” body, she examines what this concept demands of us: the gradual alienation of the body in order to absorb pain, remain quiet, and expand under pressure. In her work, bodily forms are stretched, melted, and reconstructed with industrial materials, exposing the tension between strength and vulnerability as the body confronts social systems that equate endurance with virtue.
Her frequent use of first- and second-person pronouns in her titles further collapses distance. This linguistic strategy places both the artist and the viewer within the same conditions that the work examines. From this shared position, she asks who is expected to remain intact and who is required to absorb the cost of that endurance. As a result, resilience in her work becomes a continuous negotiation between care and exhaustion, endurance and loss.
Instagram: @phoebelii_
email: shuophoebeli@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2026 House of Dissociation, THE SHOPHOUSE, Hong Kong, China
2026-24 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2025 Supper Club 2025, THE SHOPHOUSE, Hong Kong, China
2024 Migratory Birds 300, Aranya Theater Festival, Hebei, China
Beidaihe Art Center, Hebei, China
Wild Land Art Festival, Yunnan, China
Finalists Exhibition, Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale Nord of Venice, Italy
Seeking Light, The Bright Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Self-Evaluation, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
La Art Show, MetaU Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Awards
2024 Finalist Artists of the 19th Edition of Arte Laguna Prize https://artelagunaprize.com/finalist-artists-2024/
2023 MetaU Art 2023 International Art Competition, 1st Place Winners https://www.metauart.com/2023winners
Undergraduate Research Fellows Program Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
Annual Student Fine Art Show And Student Photo Contest, The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at
Hillel at UCLA, 2nd Place Winners
Publications
2026 Featured Article, New Currents, Issue 148, ArtAsiaPacific
2025 Featured Article, Asian Art Contemporary
2024 Featured Article, Art China
15th edition of Graphite Journal, Almanac, Hammer Museum
Interview Article, The Bright Art Foundation
Art Residencies
2024 Aranya Theater Festival - Migratory Birds 300, Hebei, China
Wild Land Art Festival, Yunnan, China