Tangting Li (b. 1990, Liaoning, China) graduated from the Sculpture program at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. From 2016 to 2024, he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany, under the tutelage of Professors Thomas Grünfeld and Rita McBride. He currently lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Tangting Li’s practice spans multiple disciplines and is now focused on painting, investigating the complexity of painting language and the temporal logic of history. He views art history as a generative model – one of origins, production, and replication – continually cycling between fragmentation and unity. Through his painterly practice, he seeks to uncover the mechanisms beneath the surface of painting, reconstructing its relationship to the subconscious, temporality, and materiality, while challenging ingrained thinking and biases in vocabulary.