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Raised within the rapidly urbanising terrains of northern China, Miao Li (b. 1996) explores a longing for the lush and the poetic. Currently based in the Netherlands, his practice operates diasporically, traversing ecologies, aesthetics, and epistemic systems through iterative, situated research.

His practice unfolds as an evolving web of relations, engaging material, biological, and cosmic formations as interdependent processes. Through a craft of connection, his work mediates between the physical, conceptual, and spiritual realms, tracing scattered sensibilities across space and time. For Li, making serves as a process of attunement to emergent conditions in the present, where the minute and the vast are mutually implicated.

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EXHIBITIONS

Like a bird to song, Taidetila Muijala, Maala Taidefestivaali (FI)
Group Exhibition 07.2026—08.2026
As Within, So Without, Van Eesteren Museum (NL)
Group Exhibition 12.2025—02.2026
Root Emotions, Van Eesteren Museum (NL)
Solo Exhibition 11.2025—12.2025
KVVAK event with gallery CHAxART, Rijksmuseum (NL)
Pop-up Show 05.2025
Beinglonging: New Trajectories in the Third Context, gallery CHAxART, Design Biennale Rotterdam (NL)
Group Exhibition 02.2025
Zen Air Eiheiji (JP)
Group Exhibition 11.2024
ArtEZ Finals (NL)
Group Exhibition 07.2023
The Symbiocene Forest, BioArt Laboratories, Dutch Design Week (NL)
Group Exhibition 10.2022
Chacycle, gallery CHAxART (NL)
Group Exhibition 04.2022
Eat Together, gallery CHAxART (NL)
Solo Exhibition 11.2021

RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

Domaine de Boisbuchet (FR)
Residency 06.2026—07.2026
Taidetila Muijala (FI)
Residency 04.2026—06.2026
Talent Development Grant, Stimuleringsfonds (NL)
Grant 2025
Artist in Residence, ZEN AIR EIHEIJI (JP)
Residency 09.2024—11.2024
Design Grant, Stimuleringsfonds (NL)
Grant 2024
Project Subsidies for the Professional Arts, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (NL)
Grant 2024
Grant Stroomversneller, Cultuur Academy (NL)
Grant 2024

EDUCATION

MA Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
09.2026—07.2028
Monastic Training of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, Zen River Temple (NL)
06.2025—04.2026
BA Product Design, ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL)
Cum Laude 09.2019—07.2023
BEng Industrial Design, China University of Mining and Technology (CN)
09.2015—07.2018

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Jongeriuslab (NL)
Freelance Designer 10.2023—present
Studio Jos Klarenbeek (NL)
Intern 03.2022—08.2022
Fillip Studios (NL)
Intern 06.2021—08.2021
Benwu Studio (CN)
Intern 03.2019—05.2019

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Weaving Techniques, UNStudio (NL)
Workshop 03.2026
Making Meditation, MA Materials in Artistic Practices, Frank Mohr Institute (NL)
Labweek 05.2025
Artifical Botany, BA Graphic Design Arnhem, ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL)
Workshop 01.2024
Material Inquiry, BA Product Design Arnhem, ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL)
Workshop 12.2023