Bio
Tabby Li is a Chinese-Irish multidisciplinary artist living and working in London, and is the co-founder of the London-based curatorial platform Lee Scully. Her practice explores the anomalous qualities of phenomena that are expendable, fleeting, and residual—concerned with creating new ways of attuning artefacts, forming unexpected ecologies out of everyday logics and familiar functions.
Education
2023-2024 MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School (Distinction)
2014-2017 BA (Hons) Hair, Make-up & Prosthetics for Performance, London College of Fashion | University of the Arts London (2:1)
2013-2014 VTCT Level 4 Special Effects, Hair & Media Make-up | West Thames College (Distinction)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
The Gloaming Place, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
2025
She Exists But Not Right Here, The Bath House, London, UK
Only Shallow, Acme Glassyard Studios, London, UK
Acting Out, Ex Voto Gallery, London, UK
All Mouth No Trousers, The Icing Room, London, UK
Nature and Its Vendors, hARTslane, London, UK
The Fabric of Being, Seeing Loud Gallery, London, UK
2024
International Bad Video Art Film Festival 2024, L.A.M.A, Consenza, IT
ArtWorks Open 2024, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK
Chaos Reigns, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
Other Encounters, Kupfer Gallery, London, UK
MA Degree Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
The Epitome of Decline & Decay, Safehouse 2, London, UK
MA Interim Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
2023
Group Show, Crypt Collective, London, UK
Group Show, Canal Boat Contemporary, London, UK
Home, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, UK
For Women by Women III, Ronapainting Gallery, Oxford , UK
2022
OPEN 02., Park Royal Gallery, London, UK
Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, DE
Teaching & Talks
2026 University of Brighton, BA Painting | Visiting Artist/ Crit leader
2025 Cahoots, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, UK | Artist Talk
2025 Only Shallow, Acme Glassyard Studios, London, UK | Artist Talk
2025 University of the Arts London | Artist Talk
2021 Streetz Ahead Charity, London, UK | Special Effects Make-up Workshop Facilitator
2018-19 Haileybury School, Hertford, UK | Character Make-Up, Creation and Wig Styling Workshop Facilitator
Awards & Grants
2024 Arts Council England Practice Development Project, Curator & Facilitator Jesse Scott
2024 Film Olympiad Award, Best Hair & Make-up Design
2023 The Eaton Fund Artist Grant
2023 Bloomsfield Bursary & Material Stipend (City & Guilds of London Art School MFA)
2023 British Short Film Award, Best Hair & Make-up Design
2014 University of the Arts Undergraduate Scholarship & Bursary | Hair, Make-up & Prosthetics for Performance