Lujiang Li is a a printmaker, papermaker, art instructor, and designer born in Qingdao, China. He moved with his family to Queens, New York, in 2016, where he currently lives. Li holds an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Kansas, a BFA in Printmaking from SUNY New Paltz, and a BA in Environmental Art Design from Beijing Forestry University.

Li’s practice explores memory, cultural identity, migration, and family history through handmade paper, printmaking, and installation. He creates textured, multilayered prints, drawings, and sculptures—often featuring animals with human emotions—to examine relationships between humans, the natural world, and other living creatures. Central to his work is the transformation of discarded prints, studio remnants, and personal materials, such as childhood bedsheets, into handmade paper. The processes of breaking down and rebuilding serve as metaphors for displacement, loss, and reconnection.

Handmade paper occupies a unique space in Li’s practice between craft and concept. Drawing on the medium’s long, cross-cultural history, he treats paper as a carrier of memory, with fibers that hold traces of touch, labor, and lived experience. Through the reuse of personal and found materials, Li investigates how identity can be fragmented, preserved, and reassembled, using material processes as a means of remembering and reclaiming personal and cultural narratives.