Mingshu Li

Mingshu Li (b. 1994) is a Chinese ceramic artist based in Oslo, Norway. She completed her Master’s degree in Medium and Material Based Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in 2020. Her practice explores non-traditional approaches to clay through sculptural structures shaped by airflow, repetition, and extrusion-based processes.

Working between cultural contexts, Li approaches ceramics as a material language for reflecting on identity, migration, and the relationship between form and place. Her recent projects investigate the historical movement of ceramic patterns between China and Europe, treating decoration as a carrier of cultural memory and transformation rather than a fixed surface element.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several public collections, including KODE Art Museums (Norway), Jingdezhen Ceramic University Museum (China), the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (Italy), the Municipal Art Collection of El Vendrell (Spain), and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Art Collection.

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