Using a variety of media including performance, painting, video, and writing, her artwork explores memory, dreams, and the subconscious workings of the human psyche. Her works address gender, identity, and ecology in meaningful and nuanced ways.

Her prolific and constantly evolving body of work has been exhibited in art museums throughout the world, such as at the National Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet, Gothenburg, Sweden) and the Bonn Women’s Museum (Germany). Li also participated in the Toronto Biennial of Art in Canada and the China-Europe International Art Biennale of Prague.

Her works have been collected by the Museum of East Asian Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden), Teda Contemporary Art Museum, as well as by collectors in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and Singapore. She has also been honored by United Nations Women, and her academic articles have been published in National Arts and Oriental Art: Masters.

She curated the feminist art exhibition Heterogeneous Body, Performance Art and Postmodern Theater Series:

Workshopsat UCCA in 2017,

Map and Territory international art exhibition in 2018,

and Deutschland–Deutsche Kunst in China at the German Embassy in 2019.