biography  

Li Chevalier is one of the emerging  contemporary Chinese artists working at the crossroad of West and East.   Received her post -Graduated  degree in Fine Art  from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design-Byam Shaw, UK,  Li has staged more than  35 solo and group exhibitions across Europe, the Middle East and the Far East during the last 10 years. Her works have been shortlisted by some major French Art Salons including the Salon of the prestigious French National Fine Arts Society.

They have  been   showcased  at the new gallery of the Louvre Museum in Paris between 2001 and 2003 . More recently, Li  is among the shorlisted artists at the UK Celeste Art prize competition and is called by the Mercury prize as finalist.  Her work is being  successfully selected and hung in the Royal Academy summer  exhibition 2007. Li's work are part of the private collection of the Commercial Bank Qatar .

Li's artistic roots originate  from her  Chinese heritage but also draw upon her  exploration of European culture. Her collection of ink and wash paintings on canvas, exhibited at the gallery of the American Virginia Commonwealth University School of Art in Qatar, was received as a fruitful union of Chinese and European aesthetics. The Chinese sensibility was successfully reconciled through the mixture of western and eastern art media.

In empathy with the spirit of the Experimental Ink and Wash movement, a new Chinese art  form,  Li's works are focused on preserving   the force of  the   traditional medium  of Chinese ink. At the same time she expands its language of space by incorporating it successfully into the contemporary art practice. Li Chevalier is  member of the French National Fine Arts Society since 2003 and of the French National Council for Fine Art since 2004.