Li Li Ren (b. 1986, Heilongjiang, China) lives and works in London, where she gained her BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in 2010, and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2017. 

Across her practice, Ren negotiates the constantly morphing relationships between objects in space. In her built environments, which expand beyond the physical exhibition space into imagined realms situated between the biologically understood or plausible, and the highly-fantastical, she approximates certain shapes, subjects and environments, while also subverting them through unexpected material applications and abstractions — for example, hard glass cosplaying as soft jelly. In this world-building exercise, the artist often incorporates forms associated with the Anthropocene, the ocean, biology, altered states and maternity, ultimately desiring to queer and elude those connotations to flatten and destabilize humanism through an amplification of the similarities, as well as the strangeness, of human and non-human existence. 

Her recent works continue her interest in the formation and application of memory; how fragments are forgotten, material associations are formed, and histories are layered. These become vital tools for building narrative within her visual language.

Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Sherbet Green (London), Magician Space (Beijing) and Qimu Space (Beijing), and was included in exhibitions at YUE Art Museum (Shandong), Yuan Art Museum (Beijing0, Palmer Gallery (London), Zéruì Gallery (London), Times Museum (Guangdong), ENNOVA Art Museum (Hebei), Cob Gallery (London), Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Beijing (Beijing), MOCA Yinchuan (Ningxia), Frieze Sculpture (London), X Museum (Beijing), Gravity Art Museum (Beijing), Guardian Art Center (Beijing), Camden Arts Centre (London), etc.