LMy Artist Agency
LMy Artist Agency is a fictional art institution created by Mingyu Li. Drawing from her experiences of academic art training, digital-media practice and personal trauma, the artist used Al to transform fragments of her life into three fictional Chinese women artists: Li Che, Chen Qi and Jiaxi Kim. Each was given a biography, artistic practice and public identity. The artist then produced physical artworks, CVs, photographs, archival documents and market records under their names.
Presented through the visual language of a professional art agency, these materials examine how an artist’s identity can be constructed, packaged and made credible. The project considers how personal experience is transformed into cultural value through institutional narratives, archival systems and market
information. When the artist ‘s existence itself becomes a question, can the value
of the artwork still stand?
Installation view of the fictional agency office, including artist CVs, risk assessment forms, working notes, internal files and the archive safe.
Mingyu Li, LMy Artist Agency, 2026. Agency office installation view.
Working archive folders containing the internal records of LMy Artist Agency.
Institutional profiles for the three fictional artists represented by LMy Artist Agency: Li Che, Jiaxi Kim and Chen Qi.
Fictional institutional risk assessments produced for the three artists represented by LMy Artist Agency.
The open safe contains the actual exhibition labels, separating the factual record of the project from the fictional narratives presented by the agency.
