Andy Nicholas Li

Andy Nicholas Li is an artist based in Chicago, IL and Ithaca, NY. Reading fiction, psychoanalysis, Buddhist and decolonial methodologies, Andy plays characters to participate in what scholar Chogyam Trungpa calls the “cosmic joke” of a solid ego. The characters appear in drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance. Andy's work has been exhibited at Co-Prosperity Chicago, The Soil Factory (Ithaca), Midsumma Festival (Melbourne, Australia), and Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (Providence, RI), with collaborative projects at AS220 (Providence, RI), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Singapore Art Book Fair.

Andy's short story, “Prologue to the Death of Julian,” was published in The Notre Dame Review. Some of Andy's paintings are featured in New American Paintings, Midwest #167. He has spent time at residencies and workshops at ACRE (Steuben, WI), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Ox-Bow School of Art (Saugatuck, MI), Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL), and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He holds an AB from Brown University, and he is an MFA candidate in Art at Cornell University.