Iris Luyao Li lives and works in Guangzhou, China. She received Master of Art Curatorship at The University of Sydney in 2013. As a curator and coordinator, she has worked at varied institutions and galleries such as Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; NG Art Gallery, Sydney; Artron Art Center, Shenzhen; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou. In recent years, she explores locational identity through site-specific practice. In the community art project Banyan Commune, she co-created continuous dialogue between Times Museum and its surrounding communities, responding to the local context of urbanization. In research project All the Way South, she visited the African community in Guangzhou, investigating Global South and diverse narratives of cultural networks in an age of exchange.

As an exhibition maker, she has been engaged in projects such as Big Tail Elephants: One Hour, No Room, Five Shows (2016), The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away (2017), Pan Yuliang: A Journey to Silence (2017), Detour in Times (2018), through which she has developed interest in urban revitalization and institutional critique. Her other interests include geography, film and architecture.