If any question, feel free to contact 1207sinclair@gmail.com
please do, so I can have someone to chat to about my projects :) or go out for a photo walk, or counting trashes in the street corners of LES, or sitting in Green-wood Cemetery listening to bird chirping, or touring every buildings in the NYU main campus that I never had a fully justified reason to despite being a student there for more than a year already.

 Sichen (Sinclair) Li



Sichen Li (Sinclair) was born in Jingzhou, a city famous for its breakfast delicacies and often-overlooked historical significance in central China, in 2004 on the solar term of Greater Snow. He later moved to Wuhan, a city now becoming famous for a reason that brings abrupt silence or predictable volleys of question Sinclair often found himself into had someone starts to ask “so where are you from” during ice-breakers. Starting from 2023, you can often spot him snapping pictures of trash, feeding pigeons, or darting between art book fairs in NYC. He hoards - both digitally and physically - receipts, old negatives, electronics, publications, and countless odds and ends enough to keep his room in his self-perceived creative chaos. He works, sometimes brings together his works, on printmaking, photography, editing, and localization. Projects he commenced and yet not finished are countless. (albeit most of them hovering at 90% done, but who should we blame?) These projects include but are not limited to 1) a trash mapping website for New Yorkers to spot and share their daily encounter with disposables. 2) a whole week of him attending classes with a portable CRT TV and camcorder set he reconfigured to give everyone a chance on TV. 3) secretly replacing *** on campus so they print ***. 4) a cult archival exhibition. 5) a ...

Should anyone be interested in these projects or the finished ones, which become less appealing the moment they were “completed”, Sinclair is always open to more detailed discussions. He has also been offering rooms, although now limited to a twin-size bed, for short-term free “residency” in Wuhan and Brooklyn. Many fellow financially challenged artists - photographers, performance artists, graphic designers - were accommodated for an exchange, where they gave guest lectures, hosted artist talks, or organized workshops in schools or bookstores (for doing this they often also get a,  although not too much, honorarium from the institutions - for this one can ask Ge, Yulu for a testimony).



Works (mostly ongoing)

Picture Works
   Disposable Everything
           Hua Zhong, Han River
                   Inanimate Objects
                            For Events
                               Stereo Experiments
                                           Found Photography
                                                   Miscellaneous


Printed Matters
   Anatomy of A Fruit
          Woodblock Prints

Installation (ish) and Objects
   You Are What You Eat
           Mahjong Study
                   Marble Maze 2.0


OTHER STUFF
    Walked and Walking
            trash.nyc


Upcoming (and past) Events

Pioneer Works Press Play (table 17)
2024 Dec 7-8, showcasing te-editions’ work

Spring Message of Wuhan Screening
(Bungee Space)
2024 Nov 17, screening of Go to Street with Boat and Wuhan Seven Days of Joy Towards Co-op with Gong Hao, with bilingual version of fuyin.info’s zines

Wen-you Guest Lecture (NYU)
2024 OCT 21, book talk and Q&A about ‘Min-nan Exit’
in Prof. Lee Nelson’s ‘Ethics of Dying’ class
Ge, Yulu Guest Lecture (NYU)
2023 Nov 8, art work sharing and talk in Prof. Seth Watter’s
‘Space and Place in Human Communication’ class

abC Art Book Fair (section 3F-E)
2023 June 15-18, tabled as Tai gie, hosted print n play workshop with ICOSA magazine

A4 Art Book Fair (table A21)
2023 April 6-9, tabled as SyncLair, participated in exhibition pamphlet archival exhibition, hosted guided tour and talk

Wuhan Art Book Fair (table C39)
2022 May 20-22, tabled for friend yeah-one-one