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NYFA Fellowship 2015 includes Lily & Honglei in the category of Interdisciplinary Work

We’re so honored and pleased to join NYFA Fellows this year. Under the category of Interdisciplinary Work, our portfolio comprises of multimedia projects that utilize VR, AR and video installations reflecting on the complex reality in China and its global implication.

Lily & Honglei, new media art, multimedia art, video art
Video still of “Elegy of the Middle Kingdom,” Lily & Honglei art studio

http://artforum.com/news/id=53930

NYFA Announces 2015 Artists’ Fellowships

The New York Foundation for the Arts has announced the recipients of their 2015 Artists’ Fellowships. Awarded since 1985, the fellowships are reserved for artists living in New York state and are given out as unrestricted cash grants of $7,000 across fifteen categories over the course of three years.

The current round of fellowships were given out in the areas of fiction, folk/traditional arts, interdisciplinary work, painting, and video/film. Recipients include Jaimie Warren and Molly Lowe in the interdisciplinary category, while Kalup Linzy and Eve Sussman are fellows in the video/film area. For a complete list of fellowship recipients, see the NYFA website.

Also read the article on University of Massachusetts Dartmouth website: http://www.umassd.edu/news/lilyandhonglei.html

By Lily Honglei

Lily Honglei, artist collaborate from Beijing, is currently base in United States. Their creative projects integrate digital imaging technologies, such as Augmented Realty, Virtual Reality and digital animation, with traditional art mediums to comment on current global societies as well as the relationship between Asian cultural heritages and globalization. Their projects received awards and grants from Creative Capital, New York Foundation of Arts Fellowship and Fiscal Sponsorship, New York States Council on the Arts, Queens Art Council, among others.

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