CURRICULUM VITAE
Axl Le (Yi Le 乐毅) (China/Norway) is a Chinese multimedia interdisciplinary artist artist and filmmaker. Using digital media as his primary artistic practice, his main forms of work include video/film, 3D animation, games, and artificial intelligence technology.
His work addresses themes such as techno-criticism, exploration of self-identity, and science fiction. Axl’s work has been featured on platforms such as NOWNESS Asia, VideotageHK, Videoclub UK, CIFRA, Vogue China and Arte Tracks. He has exhibited his work in venues including Art Basel HK, Loop Barcelona, Microclima Venezia, Siggraph, MAO Torino, CICA Museum, Tank Shanghai, and Himalayan Center Shanghai. Additionally, his films have garnered significant attention and awards at international animation film festivals.
Axl is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents, one of the 300 Alpha AI artists at OpenAI, also member of NBK and M-cult, as well as the European Film Academy.
EXHIBITONS
2025 One Art Gallery, Beijing, China, 8th March.
2025 Garrie PJ, Metz, France, 25th January. (Solo exhibition)
2024 Chosun Gallery, group exhibition, Seoul, South Korea.
2024 LOOP Barcelona Film & Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
2024 THE GHOSTS OF AVANT-GARDE, CIFRA
2024 MoCA Shanghai, group exhibition, Shanghai, China.
2024 Rong Art Center, group exhibition, Shanghai, China
2024 Art Basel x Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, Tokwawan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
2024 Fabricagallery, 40 Duke St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1AG, United Kingdom
2024 Eseacontemporary, 13 Thomas St, Manchester M4 1EU, United Kingdom
2024 The horsehospital, Colonnade, London WC1N 1JD, United Kingdom
2023 LUMEN PRIZE, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London
2023 Microclima Venezia,Venice, Italy
2023 MAO Torino, The Six Realms of Reincarnation 2023, Italy
2023 Chosun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (Solo Exhibition)
2023 CICA Museum, Nature 2023, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2022 Loosen Art, Progress. On Contemporary and Future Society, Rome, Italy
2022 Siggraph Asia, Daegu, South Korea
2022 Digital Art Fair Asia, Hong Kong, China
2022 Usee潮流艺术设计展, Hangzhou, China
2022 EtherBarcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2022 NFT and Digital Arts Festival, Burj Park, Dubai
2021 OneOffs NFT 國際藝術博覽會, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 NOWNESS China New Talent Awards Exhibition—— Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2021 IOSG 8th Old Friend Reunion is Coming | Scaling Summit & Metaverse Carnival, Shenzhen, China
2020 NOWNESS China New Talent Awards Exhibition
2020 中国电影美术学会色彩蒙太奇—— 电影装置艺术展
2019 Beijing International CG Art Biennale, Beijing FUN, Beijing, China
2019-2020塔台呼唤Do you copy？—— MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2018 海上80——上海青年艺术家作品邀请展·第二站, Urban Creative Space, Shanghai, China
2018 中华创世纪神话—— 互联网艺术大展, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2017 Blast数码一代展览, Himalayan Center, Shanghai, China
2017 Trans media exhibition 聚场, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2016 Shanghai International Art Festival 白日梦想家, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China
ARTICLES AND FEATURES
Axl Le and Korean Star Lee Minho Drop “New World, New Meta” Concept Film, June 2023
Nowness China: 不会吧，这个周末你又加班啦？, July 2022 (Chinese)
Nowness China: Season of Survival: Journey, June 2022 (Chinese)
InStyle China: HUNTER, April 2022 (Chinese)
Yaho Finance: NFT and Digital Arts Festival, Alternative Reality, to Be Held at WOW Summit 2022, February 2022
WLDO: 주목해야할 천재 아티스트 , August 2021 (Korean)
Shots: Work anxiety just got a whole lot worse, Shots, July 2021
Stash Media: “The Patient” Short Film by Axl Le, July 2021
Fesch TV: THE PATIENT 病人 / AXL LE, July 2021
TheCGBros: CGI 3D Animated Short: "Vincent" - by Axl Le (Yi Le), July 2021
Tank Shanghai: NOWNESS 2021天才计划, December 2020 (Chinese)
China Academy of Art: NOWNESS 2020 天才计划特别展映 中国美术学院美术馆站, December 2020 (Chinese)
Arte TRACKS: Cyberpunk: Ist die Dystopie schon Realität?, October 2020 (French/German)
SHP Plus: The Cyberpunk Worlds of Axl Le｜乐毅的赛博庞克世界, July 2020 (Chinese)
RADII: “I am Chinese, I don’t eat Dogs”: Inside Axl Le’s Post-Apocalyptic Recipe Book, April 2020
MODERN WEEKLY: An Undefined Answer of Future, March 2020 (Chinese)
Stash Magazine: Join Axl Le and Alan Watts on “The Journey”, January 2020
NeoCha: Futureproof Geisha, December 2019
Nowre Fashion Magazine: 国潮都在做 “赛博朋克”，有什么不一样的？, May 2018 (Chinese)