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 likely 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 perpetual 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.)  


email:1207sinclair@gmail.comIns: sinclair_sichenli