please do, so I can have someone to chat with about my projects :) or we can go on a photo walk, count pieces of trash on street corners in the LES, sit in Green-Wood Cemetery listening to birds chirping, or tour every building on NYU’s main campus that I never had a fully justified reason to enter despite having been a student there for more than three years.
Sichen (Sinclair) Li
Since 2023, he can often be spotted snapping pictures of trash, feeding pigeons, or darting between art book fairs in New York. He hoards—digitally and physically—receipts, old negatives, electronics, publications, and enough miscellaneous odds and ends to keep his room in a state of what he considers creative chaos. He works across printmaking, photography, editing, and localization, and sometimes manages to bring these things together.
The projects he has started but not finished are countless, albeit most of them seem to hover around 90% completion. (Who should we blame?) They include, but are not limited to: 1) a trash-mapping website where New Yorkers can spot and share their daily encounters with disposables; 2) a week of attending classes with a portable CRT television and a reconfigured camcorder setup, giving everyone a chance to be on TV; 3) secretly replacing *** on campus so that they print ***; 4) a cult archival exhibition; and 5) a...
Should anyone be interested in these projects—or the finished ones, which somehow become less appealing to Sinclair the moment they are “completed”—he is always open to a more detailed discussion. He has also been offering rooms, now reduced to a twin-size bed, for short-term and free “residencies” in Wuhan and Brooklyn. Many fellow financially challenged artists - photographers, performance artists, graphic designers - were accommodated through this exchange, for which they gave guest lectures, hosted artist talks, or organized workshops in schools or bookstores (for doing this they often also get a, although not much, honorarium from the institutions - for this one can ask Ge, Yulu for a testimony).
Picture Works
Disposable Everything
Hua Zhong, Han River
Inanimate Objects
Stereo Experiments
Found Photography
Miscellaneous
Photography Commissions
Warehouse Amsterdam
Feral Metaverse - Theo
Bungee Space Events
Ten Books
Printed Matters
Anatomy of A Fruit
Woodblock Prints
Installation (ish) and Objects
You Are What You Eat
Mahjong Study
Marble Maze 2.0
Pigeons are the new dinosaurs
OTHER STUFF
beforeyou.me
Treptower Park
Walked and Walking
trash.nyc
nyabf (table I5)
2026 Sept 7-8, table JZZP (jiazazhi)
OFFPRINT PARIS (table 127)
2025 Nov 14-16, table Library Mothership
A4 Museum
2025 March - June, picture book making workshop for young creatives
Pioneer Works Press Play (table 17)
2024 Dec 7-8, table te-editions
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 showcaseof newly published bilingual version of fuyin.info 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, talk and discussion 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