Born in China in 1968, LiFang lives and works in Paris.
LiFang discovered her passion for painting at fifteen years old. After seven years of graduate studies in the fine arts in Nanjing, she taught drawing and painting at university before arriving in France in 2001 to further her artistic development. Having completed a degree in Fine Arts at the Paris Panthéon Sorbonne University 1, LiFang began searching for a new pictorial language to make contemporary reality her own.
Through wide brushstrokes that are juxtaposed and modelled in response to lighting, LiFang renders the volume of the bodies that she depicts in her work. This style allows her to incorporate her paintings into an immediate relationship with the contemporary world. Blurry and fragmented effects serve as the pictorial equivalents of pixelation in digital photography that is blown up until it loses its sharpness. Her work bears witness to the loss of individual identities when found within crowds hustling through the main thoroughfares of cities, relaxing on beaches, or piling on top of each other in boats. In LiFang’s work, human bodies are nothing more than moving objects or beings that are just as interchangeable as they are impenetrable.
Since 2005, her work has been shown in galleries, institutions, and international art fairs in
France, Germany, Switzerland, New York, and Asia, and has been the subject of over twenty solo exhibitions. Her works are also part of public collections such as that of the Cernuschi Museum in Paris and the Colas Foundation.