Lily & Honglei, an Asian immigrant artist collaborative 
KITES: A Poem by an Immigrant, The Shed NY, 2025 
Open Call: Portals, exhibition at the Shed, 2025 
Open Call: Portals, exhibition at the Shed, 2025 
‘KITES’ in progress, 2024 
‘KITES’ in progress, 2024 
‘KITES’ in progress, 2024 
‘KITES’ in progress, 2024 
‘KITES’ in progress, 2024 
Open Call: Portals exhibition opening, 2025 
Provincetown Art Association & Museum, 2025 
Solo show at Chinese American Arts Council, 2024 
The Unseen, solo show at Chinese American Arts Council 
Up Close 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 duo whose practice encompasses painting, installation, and new media. Often inspired by East Asian cultural heritages, their work focuses on the Asian immigrant experience, history, and community.
Lily Honglei present their multidisciplinary art practice at The Shed, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Steinberg Museum of Art in New York, Chinese American Arts Council in New York, the Museum of Art and Design, 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, The Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome, He Xiangning Art Museum, 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 Shed Open Call commission, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Painting and 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. New York Times, Hyperallergic, Forbes, Art News, Time Out, Galerie Magazine, Gothamist, Art Daily, NYFA News, Asian American Arts Alliance AMP Magazine, Garland Magazine (AU), WNYC New York Public Radio, WGBH Boston Public Radio, and academic publications such as Journal of Visual Culture (UK), InTensions (CA), andBritish Journal of Chinese Studies featured their recent work.
If you have any questions, please contact us at:
lily05yang@yahoo.com
honglei.li.art@gmail.com