Jingyun Li (李静云) was born in Xi’an, China in 1995. She grew up in a coal-fired powerplant in Xi’an suburb where their parents worked. Later she went to Shanghai to studied communication studies and Chinese language and literature at Fudan University, with an exchange programme in sociolinguistics at Duke University and gender studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Jingyun came to Germany in 2019 after completing her master's degree in international dramaturgy at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2019, Jingyun has been working as a freelance artist in Berlin.

Studying, living and working in different languages has strongly influenced Jingyun's approach to art making. Her experiences as a non-native speaker have led her to search for ways and means to transform linguistic alienation and ‘imperfection’ into expressive artistic language. In her practice, she uses languages as artistic material to playfully reinvent forms of writing and speaking and to question the world view, ideology and power of languages. Through the linguistic lens, Li explores a variety of topics such as sexuality, cultural identity and censorship.