Hang Li

Hang Li is a translocal researcher, curator, and designer affiliated with the Royal College of Art (School of Arts & Humanities) and Chisenhale Gallery as Asymmetry Curatorial Writing Fellow. Holding advanced degrees from RCA (MA Curating Contemporary Art), Bartlett School of Architecture (MArch Architectural Design), and Tianjin University (BArch Architecture), her practice interrogates epistemic justice in technoscience-art intersections.

• PhD Research: Curating-in-Formation frameworks
• Key Collaborations: Power Station of Art (Shanghai), OPEN Research Initiative (London)

Research explores feminist epistemologies and collaborative knowledge-making across China/UK contexts. Current focus addresses:

• Neoliberal entrepreneurship in curatorial practices
• Techno-optimism from Silicon Valley models
• Reconfiguring STEM's top-down problem-solving

Scientific awards include:

• Asymmetry Curatorial Writing Fellowship (2021)
• Hyundai Blue Prize (Shortlisted, 2018)
• Contributions to Video Vortex Reader III and CAFAM pandemic research

Her curatorial projects (Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse, For the Time Being) and publications in LEAP and Museums journal demonstrate sustained engagement with curatorial epistemologies and transnational institutional critique.