Sylias Gallery

Jo Li is an oil painter working between London, Scottsdale, and San Diego. Her practice explores time, representation, and alternate history, imagining how portraiture and visual culture might look if history had been authored through a wider, more truthful lens. Alongside this long-form “alternate timeline” body of work, her current available paintings lean contemporary: bold figurative portraits and intimate studies that center women as subjects with presence, interiority, and authority. Working in oil on canvas and wood panel, she uses color, compositional control, and narrative framing to question who is centered, who is erased, and how an image can quietly rewrite the viewer’s sense of what is normal, possible, and worth remembering.

Arizona State University, Psychology.
Truman State University, Psychology.

FEMME FORWARD: One Exhibition, Three Perspectives (Group Exhibition)
St.ART Gallery, 36 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8DP, UK
March 2025 (Private View: 6 March 2025)