Lily & Honglei

Lily & Honglei is an Asian immigrant artist collaborative whose art practice integrates Asian cultural heritages, traditional mediums with emerging technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality. Striving to make a voice for marginalized groups in societies, their work often focuses on immigrant experience and Asian American cultural identity.

Lily & Honglei have presented their artworks at numerous contemporary art venues, including Museum of Art and Design, Queens Museum, The Painting Center of New York, Eyebeam Art Technology Center, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Asian American Art Alliance, Dumbo Art Festival in New York, Boston Cyberart Festival, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art & Studies, to name a few. Their AR projects have been presented along with ManifestAR collaborative at Whitney Museum. Lily & Honglei are recipients of People’s Choice Award at Museum of Art & Design in New York, Creative Capital Award for Moving Image & Visual Arts, New York Foundation of Arts Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grants, Queens Art Fund New Work Grants, Jerome Foundation, among others. Their art practice has been discussed by many art historians such as Margaret Hillenbrand and Angela Becher.