About the Artist

Alice Meichi Li [李美姿] is an award-winning illustrator who grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Much to the disappointment of their working-class Chinese immigrant parents, they managed to earn enough scholarship money to attend School of Visual Arts in New York City, where they received their BFA in Illustration.

Their chosen method of creating art speaks to their passion for finding the interstices between opposites by blending traditional and digital media. All of their illustrations start as pencil drawings, which then receive acrylic washes of texture and tone before being refined with digital painting. Their personal work is informed by themes of dichotomy, astronomy, metaphysics, and the intersections of their identity – including queerness, gender, and their Cantonese-American culture.

Alice currently lives and works in Queens, New York. When they’re not making art, they enjoy karaoke, ping pong, trying new restaurants, and frequenting museums.