
Lili Yuan has lived in Germany since 1992. Previously, she studied Japanese literature at Fudan University in Shanghai and continued her studies in art history at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. At the same time she started her artistic activity in traditional Chinese ink painting. In 1999, she graduated from the master class of pigment ink painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing. Her awards include the Excellence Award of the China Heavy Color Painting Exhibition of the Central Academy of Fine Arts for her work "Memory". Also, in 2005, her work "Lotus" won the Excellence Award of the International Poetry, Painting and Calligraphy Art Exhibition. Since 2022, Lili Yuan has been living and working in her studio in Berlin.