Hainan Li（b.1993）lives and works in Shanghai, China.

Hainan Li was born in Northeastern China in 1993 and currently resides in Shanghai, China, visual artist. He graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris DNAP and DNSAP (BFA and MFA), France, with an exchange visit (Erasmus+ Programme) to the Sculpture Department at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium, and a minor in Philosophy at Sorbonne University (Paris IV). Hainan’s practice primarily engages installation, sculpture, and conceptual photography, focusing on mechanisms of power, class structures, and the production of value. Through the appropriation and reconstruction of art historical imagery, everyday objects, and display contexts, he examines how visual forms participate in the construction of social meaning. Employing strategies such as material substitution, image manipulation, and symbolic displacement, his works reveal the ways in which the “real” is constructed, obscured, and redistributed within historical narratives, consumer logic, and institutional frameworks.