YunPing Li

YunPing Li (Hubei, China, 1998) is a visual artist based in Madrid. His work focuses on self-representation of Queer and BIPOC communities through photography. He investigates the intersection between the photographic medium and performance, as well as exploring the concept of belonging in relation to the human body, physical spaces, and family ties. He is author of 回家 (huí jiā). 

Email: contact@yunpingli.com
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Work

  1. 回家 (huí jiā)
  2. Self-Portraiture Performance
  3. Mā (媽)


CV
Yunping Li

Visual Artist
Hubei (China), 1998


                                Academic training Master’s Degree in experimental cinema at LAV, Madrid (2024,2025)

Hoja de Ruta 4: Project Development Course at AULA Online School, Ecuador (2023, 2024)                                   
Higher Education in Plastic Arts and Design in Photography at Artediez Art School, Madrid (2018-2022
                                                     


Talks and workshops

Selected for Futures Talent Program 2026

Participation at PhotoVogue Portfolio Reviews, 2025

Self-portraiture workshop facilitator at Ume Alaia, Donostia, 2025

Self-portraiture workshop facilitator Apuntes para un autorretrato at La Parceria, Madrid, 2025

Talk at Euforia trans familias aliadas Encounter, Madrid, 2024

Self-portraiture workshop facilitator at Inmersiones cultural program, Vitoria, 2024

Talk Transexualidades DiversAs at National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid, 2024

Pla(t)form portfoio review event at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, 2024

Portfolio review event at Artphoto Barcelona Fair, Barcelona, 2024

Participation at XIII Encontro de Artistas Novos en Santiago de 
Compostela, 2023

Self-portraiture workshop facilitator at Felipa Manuela, Madrid 2023

II Encounter of Chinese Diaspora Creators in Spain at Centro de Residencias Artísticas de Matadero Madrid, 2023

Self-portraiture workshop facilitator at Libérate Cultural Program, Teatro Fernán Gomez, Madrid, 2023

Antirracist photography workshop facilitator at Casino de la Reina Madrid, 2019




Exhibitions

El culto a la belleza
at CCCB Barcelona, 2026

回家 (huí jiā) at Fotonoviembre photographic biennial at Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2025

Long Time No See at Architekturgalerie München, Munich, 2025

Generation Z: Shaping a New Gaze at Photo Elysée, Switzerland, 2025

Un cambio de paradigma at Instituto Cervantes Rio de Janeiro, 2025

Shimmerburn at Digestivo, Madrid, 2025

Rectángulos imprecisos at LaHipoteca, Madrid, 2025

Adopciones at Pumapungo Museum, Ecuador, 2025

回家 (huí jiā) at Asociación Fotográfica Tomás Martínez, Huelva, 2025

Collective exhibition at Paris Internationale Art Fair, Paris, 2024

Només si fa olor de terra at La Panera, Lleida, 2024

Segunda versión at Cibrián Gallery, San Sebastian, 2024

La Embajada in Arles, 2024

Te prensé entre las hojas at Sala Arte Joven, Madrid, 2024

回家 (huí jiā) at La Parceria, Madrid, 2024

Un cambio de paradigma at ala Arte Joven, Madrid, 2024

Zhōngguó. El País del Centro at National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid 2024

LaSUB25 at Nave de Terneras, Madrid, 2023

Habitar el yo at Dispara, A Estrada, Pontevedra, 2023

回家 (huí jiā) at Candy Darling, Gallery, Barcelona, 2023

回家 (huí jiā) at El Local, Madrid, 2023

Second edition of Asian Artist Livingroom- Midsummer 夏至 at 
PAU, Barcelona, 2023

Participation in Paranapiacaba Photography Festival, Brasil, 2023

Collective exhibition at Artphoto Barcelona Fair, Barcelona, 2023

Hersteria at Rui Workshop, Barcelona, 2023

II Encounter of Chinese Diaspora at Matadero, 2022

La venganza de las luciérnagas at Real Fábrica de Artilleria, Sevilla, 2022




Performance

Self-Portraiture Performance
at Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2025

Self-Portraiture Performance at Architekturgalerie, Munich, 2025

Self-portraiture Performance at CBA, Madrid, 2025

Self-portraiture Performance at La Panera, Lleida, 2025

Self-portraiture Performance at Tabakalera, San Sebastian, 2024

Self-portraiture Performance at Cibrián gallery, San Sebastian, 2024

Self-portraiture Performance at La Parceria, Madrid, 2024

Self-portraiture Performance at Sala Arte Joven, Madrid, 2024

Mesa Redonda collective performance at National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid, 2024

Self-portraiture Performance at National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid, 2024

¿Cómo se dice rodilla en tu dialecto? collective performance at National Museum of Anthropology, 2024




Publications

Gen Z, Shaping a New Gaze
by Editions Textuel, 2025

Hoy es siempre todavía,  2025

Book N6 Esto es un cuerpo: Ombligo, 2025

Exit #96 Miradas Queer, 2024

Balam N10: La Bohemia, 2024

Sinetheta #27 “FRIEND





Open calls

Residency for artistic project development 2026
at Tabakalera (San Sebastian)

Getxophoto open call 2026

Winner of 13th Galicia Contemporary Photography Award

Fotonoviembre photography biennial 2025

Fotodoks 2025

Shortlisted in Getxophoto open call 2024 and 2025



Last Updated 24.10.37