Artist to Curator, Scholar to Creator: Li Hongwei and Andrew L. Maske in Conversation

Contact Andrew Maske andrew.maske@uky.edu for zoom link.

Join UK professor Andrew Maske and sculptor/ceramic artist Li Hongwei as they discuss Li’s innovative steel and ceramic sculpture, on view at the UK Art Museum from January 18th – June 4th. 

Artist Bio 

Li Hongwei (b.1980) is a contemporary artist working primarily in steel and ceramic. He works and lives in Beijing and New York. Hongwei holds a bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and an MFA in ceramic art from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. His work has been acquired by prominent institutions including the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Institute of Chicago and has been exhibited around the world at places as diverse as the National Art Museum of China, The US Embassy in China, The New Mexico Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Dublin Castle in Ireland.