Li-Chunyang is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts, Chinese National Academy of Arts. She has held visiting scholar appointments at Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture, Goethe University Frankfurt’s Department of Sinology, and Tama Art University’s Department of Nihonga (Japanese Painting) in Tokyo. She is a lifetime research fellow of the Li Keran Painting Academy and a member of the China Artists Association.

Her research interests include the intellectual history of Chinese thought, and Chinese culture and art in cross-linguistic contexts. She is also an active practitioner of oil painting and Chinese painting, with a focus on contemporary Chinese rhetoric and aesthetics.