Pearlyn Lii is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose practice investigates personhood and the divine feminine through speculative mythos. Her work narrates the plight of the human experience through fictional characters in alternate realities, reinterpreting the digital space as a form of modern kinmaking. Drawing from ancestral lore and science, Lii grapples with pain, loss, and memory, particularly in matrilineal contexts. Her work manifests through video game animation, augmented reality, and embodied performances.
Lii is an alumna of NEW INC, a cohort of artists supported by The New Museum, and is a selectee of the Art+Code track in partnership with Rhizome. There, she founded nonstudio, an art and design practice that investigates mythologies through transmedia. Her work has been presented at New York Live Arts, JO-HS, MoMA, MAXMachina, The New York Times, Google, and covered by Dezeen, Vogue Italia, Wallpaper*, Art in America, Killscreen, The New River, and Casa BRUTUS. Previously, she has worked with the Guggenheim Bilbao, Whitewall Magazine, and Maison Kitsuné.
In 2020, Foundation invited her to be one of the first 24 artists to launch the platform. In 2023, she became a founding artist at Gemma, a digital platform uplifting female-identifying new media work founded by Lindsay Howard and Eileen Isagon Skyers.
She is a proud alumna of ArtCenter College of Design, where she earned a degree in Graphic Design with distinction.
Currently
—Fellow,
Moulin à Nef, VCCA France
Recently
—Art Director
(Freelance), Local Projects
Previously
—Fellow,
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
—Artist-In-Residence,
JO-HS, Mexico City
—NEW INC,
Interactive Experiences,Year 6
Art & Code (with Rhizome), Year 7
Speaking
—2x4
—2x4
—Google
—New York Times
—Killscreen
—Parsons
—ArtCenter
—NEW INC x Pioneer Works
—Killscreen
—Parsons
—ArtCenter
—NEW INC x Pioneer Works
Currently available for freelance projects.
CV & resumé available upon request.
@For all inquiries, contact hi[at]nonstud.io.