Ruth Ju-Shih Li (b.1992, Taipei, Taiwan) finished her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the National Art School, Darlinghurst (NAS), in 2013. She explores different ways of narrating both traditional and multicultural concepts of beauty, transcendence and the sublime as a cross-cultural language into the spiritual. The layering of imagery becomes a metaphorical representation of the self to consider the transitory nature of human existence.
Li has exhibited widely in Sydney and internationally in Taiwan, China, Korea, and Thailand. Notable recent exhibitions include the Korean International Ceramic Biennale, a solo exhibition at the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan and a group exhibition at the Kyoto Ceramic Centre, Japan. Li’s work is held in the collection of the Taoxichuan Museum, Jingdezhen, China, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, and in many private collections. She was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize in 2017, won the Emerging Artists Prize in 2019, and received the Special Prize at the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale International 2020.
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| 1992 | Born in Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2013 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hon), National Art School, Sydney, Australia |
| Present | Lives and works in Sydney |
| 2021 | “Flora Ephemera”, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, Australia |
| 2020 | “Inflorescence”, May Space, Sydney, Australia |
| “花期”, Tsing Hua University Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan | |
| “Bloom”, Mars Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
| “Florilegia”, CC Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2019 | “Florilegium”, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| “Florilegium”, May Space, Sydney | |
| 2016 | “Made in China”, Gallery Klei, Sydney, Australia |
| 2022 | “Dorveille”, Vermilion Art, Sydney, Australia |
| “Drawn by stones” 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, touring exhibition, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney; Australian Ceramics Triennale, Alice Springs; Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW, Australia | |
| 2020 | Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| “Every Moment with You”, Municipal Tainan Cultural Centre, Tainan, Taiwan | |
| 2019 | “Next”, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia |
| Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia | |
| Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Republic of Korea | |
| Art Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| 11th International Avanos Applied Ceramic Symposium, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Turkey | |
| 2018 | “Ceramics Generations – Exploring Taiwan Contemporary Ceramics”, IAC National Exhibition, National Taiwan University of Arts: International Exhibition Hall, Da-Han Gallery, Da-Guan Gallery, Truth, Goodness and Beauty Gallery, Taipei, New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| “Mugged!”, May Space, Sydney, Australia | |
| “No One Is A Lonely Island”, Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China | |
| 2017 | “Ceramic Revisions II”, May Space, Sydney, Australia |
| “Jing Piao”, Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum, Jingdezhen, China | |
| “The White Room”, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2016 | Craft Trend Fair 2016, Korea Crafts and Design Foundation, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
| Grand Opening Exhibition, Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China | |
| The 5th Shenzhen International Art Fair, Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center, Shenzhen, China | |
| 2015 | “Homegrown”, Art Space on the Concourse, Willoughby City Council, Sydney, Australia |
| Emerging Artist Award Finalist Exhibition, Craft NSW, Sydney, Australia | |
| “Turn Turn Turn: the Studio Ceramics Tradition at the National Art School”, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| Hell-O Multi Arts Festival, Project 107, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2014 | “Contemporary Porcelain”, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| “A Fresh Perspective”, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| “Home@735”, Gallery Home@735, Sydney, Australia |
| 2020 | Winner of Special Prize Award, Taiwan Ceramics Biennale International, New Taipei City, Taiwan |
| Finalist of the Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, Gosford, Australia | |
| 2017 | Finalist of North Sydney Art Prize, Coal Loader Centre, Sydney, Australia |
| 2015 | Finalist of Emerging Artist Award, Craft NSW, Sydney, Australia |
| 2013 | Australian Ceramics Association Award |
| 2022 | (scheduled) Watch This Space, Alice Springs, Australia |
| 2021 | (scheduled) Clayarch Gimhae Museum Residency, Gimhae, Republic of Korea |
| 2020 | Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios Residency, Sydney, Australia |
| 2018 | Hua Hin International Contemporary Art Residency Program, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2016 | Taoxichuan International Studio Residency, Jingdezhen, China |
Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Guray Museum, Avanos, Turkey
Gosford Regional Gallery, Australia
Private collections in Australia, Taiwan, Thailand and China
| 2021 | Radio Interview, 29 March, 2SER107.3 Sydney |
| ”Exhibition review”, Samuel Quinteros, Autumn 2021, Urasenke Sydney Quarterly | |
| Interview, 26 March, Au Living | |
| Interview, 20-26 March, VCT news/Vision Times | |
| Flora Ephemera, 6-12 March, Vision Times Newspaper | |
| 2020 | “Top 5 Exhibitions to See This Week”, 4 December, Art Guide Australia |
| “Interview #134 – Ruth Li”, Matt Chun, 27 April, Liminal Magazine | |
| ”Spring in Art Xinli Lichun Special Exhibition”, Wang Han Ping 王涵平, 13 January, Liberty Times 自由時報 | |
| “Lidao Hunchun Invites you to see festival in XinYing Cultural Centre”, 9 January, Tainan News | |
| “2020 Lidao Hunchun New Year Special Exhibition”, Yan Dabao 顏大堡, 9 January, All News Taiwan | |
| 2019 | Radio interview, Good News Media (FM90.9, FM90.3) [佳 音音電台], GoGo Radio (FM104.3), Taiwan |
| Televised interview, 9 Dec , DafengMedia [大大豐新聞] | |
| “Unique Jingdezhen ceramics in Taiwan on view in Taipei”, Yolanda Hsu, 28 November, China Times | |
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“Taiwanese-Australian ceramic artist uses ceramics to explore mortality’, Li Mei-Ying, 27 November, The Storm Media, Financial Times, TSSDNEWS, Pacific Daily, Miao-Jie News
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| “The erosion of an artwork reflects on life’s mortality. Ceramicist Ruth Ju-shih Li: people are constructed like clay”, Wang Xin-Hui, 27 Nov, Christian Daily (Taiwan) | |
| “Florilegium –Ruth Ju-shih Li’s solo exhibition”, 25 October, November Issue, p. 16., New Taipei City Arts Magazine | |
| “Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2019 review”, John McDonald, 12 September, Sydney Morning Herald | |
| Artwork chosen for main promotional image Sydney Contemporary 2019, Artsy | |
| “In Studio with Ruth Ju-shih Li”, Evelyne Schoenmann, Issue 4, New Ceramics: The European Ceramics Magazine 2019 | |
| 2018 | “The Sacred. The Sublime and the Self”, Stella Tan, Vol. 57, No. 1, The Journal of Australian Ceramics |
| 2016 | “MADE IN CHINA”, Caitlyn Hurley, Vol. 55, No. 3, The Journal of Australian Ceramics |
| “Women in Action: Pursuing a Dream”, May Issue, Pg 41, Woman of China Magazine | |
| 2014 | “Exhibition review”, James Compton, Das platforms (Das SuperPaper) – http://www.dasplatforms.com/writing/ 11-01-14 |
