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
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回家 (huí jiā)
- Self-Portraiture Performance
- Mā (媽)
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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 朋
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
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