Lily & Honglei, an Asian immigrant artist collaborative 
Close Up From Afar, Westbeth Gallery, NYC 
Flushing Town Hall, NYC 
Exhibition highlight 
At art residency 
Grant recipient highlight 
Public Art in NYC Parks 
Public Art highlight 
Interview by New York Foundation for the Arts 
Interview by Asian American Arts Alliance 
Screening at Queens Museum 
Screening at Queens Museum 
Interview by Creative Capital 
Creative Capital Presentation 
Creative Capital awardees retreat 
Solo exhibition at Wilfrid Museum of Asia Art and Studies 
Painting Center, NYC 
Exhibition at Zhulong Gallery 
Art in America 
AR presentation at Whitney Museum, NYC 
Presentation at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, NYC 
Awardee screening at Museum of Art & Design, NYC 
Lecture on new media art, UMass Lowell 
Solo exhibition at UMass Dartmouth
CV
Artist Bio
Lily Honglei is an Asian immigrant artist collaborative whose practice encompasses painting, installation, and time-based media. Often inspired by East Asian cultural heritages, their work focuses on the Asian immigrant experience, history, and identity.
Lily Honglei present their multidisciplinary art practice at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York (2025), Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA (2025), Chinese American Arts Council in New York, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, The Painting Center of New York, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens Museum, Eyebeam Art Technology Center, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Asian American Art Alliance in New York, 601 Artspace NYC, Dumbo Art Festival, Boston Cyberart Festival, Zero1 Biennial of New Media Art in San Jose CA, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Stanford University, City College of New York, Museum of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome, He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, Shanghai University Gallery, SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in Los Angles, and SIGGRAPH Asia in Daegu, to name a few. The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation has showcased Lily & Honglei’s public art projects at multiple public parks in New York City.
Lily Honglei are recipients of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Painting and in Interdisciplinary Work, the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant for Painters, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, the Creative Capital Award for Moving Image & Visual Arts, New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grants, Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grants, Flushing Town Hall Artist in Queens Grants, Jerome Foundation grant (via Turbulence.org), and the People’s Choice Award at the Museum of Art & Design in New York. More Art, Korea Art Forum, and Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning commissioned Lily Honglei to create public art projects in New York City. Many art historians, including Margaret Hillenbrand and Angela Becher, discussed their art practice extensively. Their work has been frequently featured on Hyperallergic, NYFA interview, Asian American Arts Alliance AMP Magazine, among others.
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