Yang Li

Yang Li (李阳) is a research associate in The M/Other Project. She obtained an MA in Curatorship from the University of Melbourne. From 2022 to 2023, she was a visiting curator and researcher at Alpha Nova & Galerie Futura in Berlin, funded by the German Chancellor Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). During the Berlin Art Week in 2023, she curated the exhibition “I Made You to Find Me,” in which three artists from China and Germany explore motherhood, multiple identities, and matrilineal threads from an intergenerational perspective. In 2021, she served as a remote intern and guest curator at the Museum of Motherhood in the U.S. Her research and curatorial interests include feminist curating, motherhood in art, and Chinese feminist art.

Publications

• “From Bold, Going Feral: XIAO Lu's Feminist Art and Ferality.” In Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity, edited by Andrea O’Reilly and Casey O’Reilly-Conlin. Demeter Press, 2025, 165-184.

• “Connect the Hidden Self with Anonymous Others: Chinese Female Photographers and Women in Photographs.” Paper presented at Fast Forward Conference 5 “Hidden (Hi)stories: New Perspectives of Women’s Photographies,” Greece, May 2024. https://fastforward.photography/our-projects/call-for-papers-fast-forward- conference-5-in-thessaloniki-greece/

• Review of Re-Assembling Motherhood(s): On Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices, by MATERNAL FANTASIES, Woman’s Art Journal, volume 44, issue 2, 2023. https://www.oldcitypublishing.com/journals/waj-home/waj-issue-contents/waj-volume-44-number-2-2023/

• “Institutional Perspective and Practice of Motherhood: The Case of the Museum of Motherhood.” Journal of Mother Studies 6 (2021). https://jourms.org/institutional-perspective-and-practice-of-motherhood-the-%20case-of-the-museum-of-motherhood/