Max Li is an interdisciplinary artist from China, currently based in Chicago. His practice blends photography, tintype, found objects, and contemporary tools to create time-based archives of experience. Drawing on themes of rite, memory, and transition. His process embraces both structure and spontaneity, weaving together the sacred and the everyday.

Serving as the arts czar at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago in Woodlawn, Max collaborates with community members and artists to creatively activate the church’s historic spaces. He has organized events ranging from projection light shows, dance, exhibitions,  communal dinners, open practices, theater productions, and other site-responsive projects.


For conversation, showing, and other thoughts,
please email: omaxlgzo@gmail.com

Current Position:

Art Director, Big House Studio

Arts Czar (Art Director), The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago

Brand Manager, Molosco Porcelain