Li Jikai was born 1975 in Chengdu. He graduated with MFA from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He currently works in Hubei Institute of fine Arts.
The main characters of Li Jikai’s paintings are the doll-look youngster who looks like a sort of and seems, in almost all the images to be, forsaken, hurt, lonesome, melancholic, hapless or unfortunate…
Rag dolls is the best playing companions of youngsters and the characteristics with a big head and a tiny body, cuteness and simplified and exaggerated figures.
Change always takes place in his paintings due to the touch of brush or his style. It connects between the painting and reality. Sometimes they look like dreams but in a simple stroke.
He has had several solo exhibitions in China and Europe during the last 10 years.