Jia Xi Li 「镓汐」
Textile Artist
Based in London
Jiaxi Li [镓汐] is a textile artist who focuses on innovative knit practice with multi cultural background. Before her master’s studies at the Royal College of Art, Jia Xi majored in fashion design at Parsons School of Design in New York. She has built a multidisciplinary and interactive art practice in material exploration, art digitalisation, craftsmanship, and cross-subject collaboration. As a textile artist, she values the emotion, history, and humanity in each creation.
Artist Residency
Sarabande Foundation, Artist in Residence, Nov 2022-Nov 2023, London, UK︎︎︎
Solo artist residency, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, Aug-Nov 2021, London, UK
COLOR, MATERIAL AND SURFACE DESIGN, CraftHub Residency, April 2022, Kolding, Denmark
Contextile 2022 artist residency, Jul-Sept 2022, Guimarães, Portugal
Solo Exhibitions
where forgetting meets remembering, Sarabande Foundation, October 2023, London
Knot by Not, Solo Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery, November 2021, London︎︎︎
Group Exhibitions
SUM: Summer Exhibition, 2023, Sarabande Foundation, London
Definitions of Drawing II, 2023, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
SandCastle, 2023, APT Gallery, London
Arte Laguna Prize, 2023, Venice
Coming Home: In Search of Our Body, 2023, London
Contextile Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, 2022, Guimarães
No Place Like Home, 2022, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Karen Tronel Antumn Exhibition 2022, London
BBA Artist Prize 2022 exhibition, 2022, Kühlhaus Berlin
Soft Dialogue, London Craft Week, The Department Store, 2022, London
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, 2022, Edinburgh
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, 2022, London
TsingHua ICADE 2021, Beijing︎︎︎
The Knitting and Stitching Shows, Tour Exhibition, 2021, London, Harrogate
RCA Textile Happening, 2021, London
Festival of Quilt, The NEC, 2021, Birmingham
UTOPIA VR Exhibition, Holy Art, 2021, London
RCA Wip Show, 2021, London︎︎︎
Ars Electronica Garden London (collaboration), 2020, London︎︎︎
Honours & Experience
Arte Laguna Prize 16, Finalist, 2022, Italy
BBA Artist Price, Shortlisted, 2022, Berlin
Solo Artist-in-Residence, Unit 1 Gallery, Aug-Nov 2021, London
Global Design Graduate Show 2021 in collaboration with Gucci, Shortlisted, 2021
Janome Fine Art Textile Award, Shortlisted, 2021
Bradford Textile Society Design Competition, Commendation, 2021
RCA Textile Department Representative, Critique with Peter Clarke Director at Apple, 2021, London
Graduate with Honour, Parsons School of Design, 2019
Parsons Dean’s Scholarship, 2015-2019
Parsons Dean’s List, 2015-2019
JcPenny Sponsorship, 2018-2019
Press
Vast Magazine, Issue N.03, 2021︎︎︎
View Magazine, AW 22-23, 2021
Paten
Moisture Shaping Knitted Fabric - 202110868592.9Copyright ©️ 2021 Jiaxi Li