Born in 1988, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. After study and work in Japan and England,Lily is currently based in Tokyo. Concerned with the relationship of individual memory and collective memory, her perspective has been presented through a range of media including Drawing,Collage,Photography, Video, Text and Installation.
Pursuing the existence and trails of both human and non-human individuals, whose presence have become obscure in the post-war capitalist system and urban planning, LILY takes approaches reaching for connections to a larger circulation and ecology. Her work inspires consciousness upon visions transcending the social values primarily defined by the mass media and commercialism.
Awards
- 2019
- 8th Emon Award, Grand Prize
- 2018
- 18th Photo 1_Wall, Finalist
- 2017
- 33rd Higashikawa International Photo Festival Portfolio Review Session, Grand Prize
- 2017
- 7th Tokyo Frontline Photo Award, Atsushi Sasaki Award
Group Exhibitions
- 2021
- Mapping from Home, Tokyo Festival, Turner Gallery
- 2020
- Spring Show, 3331 Art Fair, 3331 Arts Chiyoda
- 2020
- Tokyo Curiosity, Bunkamura Museum
- 2020
- Naked Image, Hiltopia
- 2019
- 8th Emon Award Finalist Exhibition, Emon Photo Gallery
- 2018
- Photo 1_Wall Finalist Exhibition, Guardian Garden
Solo Exhibitions
- 2022
- “Abscura” Publishing Commemoration Exhibition, Ricoh Imaging Square
- 2021
- Enter the Void, Nohga Hotel Ueno Tokyo
- 2021
- Local Anesthesia, Ginza Tsutaya Books
- 2020
- Last Night, Fugensha
- 2020
- I Was Real, Kanzan Gallery
- 2020
- Abscura, Nikon Salon Ginza / Osaka
- 2019
- Dyed My Hair Blond, Burnt Dark at Sea, Emon Photo Gallery
- 2018
- Ligament、Sony Imaging Gallery
Lily Night depicts a unique view of the world using a crossover of analog and digital media including straight-up photography, industrial-grade organic solvents, digitalized and edited drawings and paintings, and collages reconstructed from cut and layered images. Her work alludes to a biologically threatened society that is pushing cyber-dependence to the point of blurring the lines between life and death. Both strong will and intuitive concern emanate from her use of space, composition and the heavily political motifs and sensational colors she chooses to overtly imply a power structure that is both visible and invisible.
This exhibition presents nine new works with which Lily Night has taken her signature style of abstract-representational fusion to greater depths. You will see views crisscrossed, time transcended and spaces traversed on the thematic fronts of digital technology vs. life, power vs. the masses, and oneself vs. others.