Wenkai Li was born in Shenzhen, China in 1993. She received her MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media from Maryland Institute College of Art (2018). She is a photographer and video creator. For now, she lives in Manhattan, New York.
In Wenkai’s artworks, she wants to talk about the relationship between the real world and the ideal world. She thinks the ideal world is always present form people’s spiritual and dreams are the continuation of life and diffusion of perception. So she always uses a dream as an entry point. Wenkai wants to create her own dreamland, which is fulfilled with her personal emotion and her understanding of time, space, and emotion.