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@designedbylili

lili is a multimedia artist, photographer, and organizer based in NYC and San Francisco. Her work, firmly rooted in research and theory, explores concepts of beauty, perception, and corporeality.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Lili Price (aka Lili Bradford, she/her) studied photography, illustration, and art history at Parsons School of Design in NYC.

Lili studies and depicts relationships between the Self and its container, often alluding

to issues of gender, beauty, mental health, and the nature of corporeality. She's a 

contemporary surrealist, responding to the surreality that is living as conscious

souls inside nonstatic containers – within societies that constantly demand and redefine

normalcy.

As an invisibly-disabled young woman, she's deeply invested in theories of mental/physical existence: the lines between selfhood, body-objecthood, and environment. Her work frequently captures the experience of interacting with one’s own embodiment - utilizing mirrors to represent both binary and integrated relationships between Body and Self – meanwhile fracturing human anatomy via practical effects to illustrate the unfamiliarity many of us feel towards our own bodies.

Her practice is rooted in research: drawing

from existentialism and philosophy, psychology and neurology, surrealist theory and art

history, and gender, queer, and disability studies. She enjoys repurposing historically controversial imagery with fresh intentions.

As the 21st century accelerates towards decorporealization and invents new body modifications, how to exist with our bodies becomes an ever more important question. Lili intends to make work that finds cohesion between mental and physical existence, while contributing to ongoing struggles to reframe gender, beauty, and overall bodily normality with nuance.

Lili also works in ceramic sculpture and commercial illustration, and is an avid curator of knowledge in Modern Art and Women Artists history (subjects she has taught via nonprofits). She works in VE at the International Center of Photography, is Head Assistant for Unsigned Models LLC, and founded/runs Quiddity Collective (a bimonthly illustration zine and artist collective, nonprofit).

Learning

2019-2024

PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN - BFA: major in illustration, minors in photography & art/design history

2021-2023

SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES - World Art History Certificate

2018

ACADEMY OF ART - Precollege Program

2018

SADIE VALERI ATELIER

2017

SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO - ECP Intensive (Experimental Drawing)

Employment + Experience

2025-P

UNSIGNED MODELS: Head Assistant

2024-P

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY - Visitor Experience Associate

2024-P

FOTOLAB NYC - Studio Manager

2024-P

QUIDDITY COLLECTIVE - Founder, Organizer, Editor

2024-2025

LAHN - Sales Associate

2014-2019

DESIGNED BY LILI - Founder, Illustrator

2017-2018

TANTRUM - Salesperson

Teaching

2020-P

FREELANCE Art College Application/Portfolio Advisor

2020-2021

LEARNING UNLIMITED / SPLASH RAINSTORM - "History of Western Modern Art (1850-1950): Journey to Abstraction" + "History of Western Modern Art (Post-War): Artist as Activist"

2021

UNITED UNDER ARTS Visiting Lecturer

2020-2022

WAVE LEARNING FESTIVAL - "History of Western Modern Art" + "Portfolio Development: Applying to Art Colleges" + "Know Their Names: Female Artists Throughout History"

Group Shows

2024

AGORA GALLERY: NY ILY

2024

2023, 2024

PARSONS ILLUSTRATION: Senior Show

PHOTOFEAST Biannual Pinup

2019

INCLINE GALLERY: Ugly - Curator, Installer, Artist

2017

ADOBE BOOKS GALLERY

Publication (Selection)

Specialties & Skills

Extensive knowledge of: modern art history (1850-1980), female artists, feminist theory, philosophy

Mental health & disability advocacy, CBT & MBSR skills

Mediums of specialty: digital photography, charcoal, ceramics

Classically trained pianist

2024

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 40 Book: AI-AP Award Winner

2021

ONLY CHILD "1 BY 1" Biannual Book: Cover

2021

POZA Magazine

2021

2021

MARIKA Magazine

ART OF PORTRAIT Magazine

2021

2021

MOB JOURNAL: Cover Story

TOP POSTERS Magazine: Cover

2021

HORIZONT Magazine, 2x

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