Timjune Tianjun Li 
李天竣



Tianjun Li (b. 1999, CN/FI), also known as Timjune, is a Helsinki-based interdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, sound, voice, performance, and community-based practices. Drawing from their synesthesia and a four-octave vocal range, Li creates surreal sonic-visual landscapes where more-than-human beings emerge as metaphors for socio-ecological realities. Li holds a master’s degree in Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art, with a minor in Sound in New Media, from Aalto University.

Their works have been exhibited and performed internationally, including at Northern Photography Centre (FI, solo), Contemporary Image Museum (CN), Skissernas Museum (SE), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Der Greif (DE), Helsinki International Artist Programme (FI), Disseny Hub Barcelona (ES),  Stockholm Fringe Festival (SE), Kulturhus Cyklopen (SE), Kotka Art Biennale (FI), Helsinki City Museum (FI), M. Žilinskas Art Museum (LT), Africa Foto Fair, MuCAT Museum (CI), Buffalo Arts Studio (US), and Paris Photo Day (FR).

Li has been awarded funded residencies including B28 Nordic Culture Point (FI), Saari Residence by Kone Foundation (FI), E75 Art Bus by MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center (FI), Island Connect (Creative Europe), ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art and Culture (ES), SIM Residency (IS), and Kotka Art Biennale (FI). In 2025, they received an artist working grant from the City of Espoo.

Since 2023, Li’s "Singing Walk" project- shared through Chinese social media platforms has gained over 20 million views and 140,000+ followers, transforming the act of walking and singing into a meditative, collective practice.

In addition to their independent work, Li has collaborated with musicians and cultural organizations including Warner Music Group and Sigur Rós, contributing photography and visual storytelling for music releases.




Education 
Visual Cultures, Curating, Contemporary Art, Master of Art, Aalto University, Finland

Sound in New Media (Minor), Aalto University, Finland


Exhibitions 
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Photo North - Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu 

2026 Solo Exhibition (FI)

Dual Exhibition
2021 Rêverie: Christophe Tissot & Tianjun Li Dual Exhibition, Galerie Cipango, Paris

Group Exhibitions
2026
E75 Art Bus, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center, Helsinki

2025
DE-CONSTRUCTED, Photographic Exploration Project and B-Part Exhibition (Loopraum), Berlin

ONBOARDS Biennale, Antwerp

Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen

BOOKED MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center, Helsinki and Oulu

Metamorphosis, Photographic Exploration Project, and La Nature Festival, Vielsalm


2024
Kapitel, Studio Tabac, Stockholm

Africa Foto Fair, MuCAT Museum 

Aavistus Biennial of Audiovisual Art, Helsinki City Museum

International Photography and Media Art Festival, M. Žilinskas Art Museum, Kaunas 

Art Lives Here (Final Winner), NYX Hotel by Leonardo Hotels, Warsaw

Urban Apa x Stoa, Stoa Cultural Centre, Helsinki

OPIA Festival Gallery Exhibition (Presented by Olafur Arnalds), Utrecht

Kotka Art Biennale, Kotka (FI)

Microtonal Music Studios Research and Study Programme Exhibition, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki

Together: Poetic Asian Hands, Gaoshan Gallery, Helsinki

Directors Choice, photo: SCHWEIZ, Zürich

KREATIVITÄT DER LANGSAMKEIT, GISELA – Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin



2023
World Biennial of Student Photography, Novi Sad

1839 Photography Award, Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu International Photography Festival, Chengdu

OPIA Launch Event Gallery (Presented by Ólafur Arnalds), Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin

Photometria International Photography Festival, Ioannina, Greece

Hamburg Portfolio Review Public Space Exhibition, Platz der Republik (Altonaer Museum), Hamburg

Single Shot Winner Exhibition, Festival di Fotografia a Capri, Certosa San Glacomo, Capri

Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice, Buffalo Arts Studio, New York 

Past & Present: Der Greif 15 Anniversary, Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich

 Space Place Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Tagil

Living Room, Free City of Kalasatama Gallery, Helsinki

Artistic Presentation in Vuosaari Ecologies, Villa Lill Kallvik, Helsinki

New Talents 2023 (1st Prize Winner), Belgrade Photo Month, Belgrade

Schu1pture the 0ther Way, Vallian Panimo Gallery, Helsinki


2022  
Empty Lawn, Photography Group Exhibition, Banshan Gallery, Tokyo


2021 
Rêverie: Christophe Tissot & Tianjun Li Dual Exhibition, Galerie Cipango, Paris

Photo Days Paris 2021, Paris

8th Stars Project: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tree Art Museum, Beijing

Bushu Art Book Fair, Golden Union Surpass Space Expo, Shanghai

Poetry of Life, C-Town Art Space, Nanjing


2020 
Hide and Seek Experimental Photography Exhibition, Banshan Gallery, Tokyo

Film 500 Drift Photography Group Exhibition, Fuji X-SPACE, Shanghai

Solitude: Edge and Consciousness, Gumei Art Center, Shanghai

CHABF Art Book Exhibition, A4 International Art Residency Center, Chengdu

NABF Nanjing Art Book Fair, "Echo Project" Nanjing

Ningbo International Photography Week, Ningbo

Winter Exhibition, Echo Dark Gallery, Shenzhen


2019  
The Shapes of Hibernation, Solo Exhibition, Smilology Gallery, Guangzhou

RETURN Cross-Media Art Group Exhibition, Arbre Art Centre, Shenzhen


Features and Presses
Almanac, Struer Tracks: Biennial for Sound and Listening, Sound Art Lab, 2025

Fotobus further, 2024


Der Grief (Issue 17, Launch during Paris Photo Fair), 2024

Dovetail Magazine, 2024

Visual Dialogue, seen-zeen Magazine, 2024

假杂志 JIAZAZHI Feature Article, 2024

Featured Interview, Modern Weekly 周末画报, Dec, 2023

Agenda 2024, ISSP (Platform for Contemporary Photography, Riga), 2023

2nd Chengdu International Photography Festival Collection Publication, 2023

Featured Artist Seen-zeen Magazine, 2023

Feature Article in Ruskeat Tytöt Media #1, 2023

Cover Artist and Interview, Modern Weekly 周末画报, Nov. 2023

Photographer. ru, 2023

Foto Noviny 63, 2023

Black Camera, 2023

Photographer in Focus, NOWNESS Asia, 2023

Spotlight Interview, 艺术品鉴 Appreciation Journal, 2023

Subjective Atlas of Finland, Subjective Editions, 2023

Feature Article, BROAD Magazine, 2023

TORSO Magazine, Finland 2023

Personal Interview, Bestudio, Helsinki, 2023

Rotterdam Photo Festival 2022

Paris Photo Day 2021

Exhibition Book of 8th Stars Project: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tree Art Museum, 2021

Interview: Tianjun Li:  "Painting" with Photos, creating moments of fantasy, Guangzhou Daily (GZ Photo) 2021

Cover Story & Artist Spotlight, SINK HOLLOW Magazine Spring Issue 2021 

Interview on 500px, 2021

Reppink Selects Feature Artist, Broad Magazine, 2020-2021

Opening Screen Display on Douban/Tuchong App, 2020-2021 

Cover Story & Interview: Tianjun Li: To Create a Moment in Fantasy, BLINK Magazine Vol. 040, 2020 

Interview on What You Need, August 2020 

Online Exhibition, BIE, July. 2020

Young Power Art Program Interview, BOBOSNAP Magazine, Spring Issue 2021/Fall Issue 2020

BLINK Artist Project: Tianjun Li: The moment when photography is implemented is mysterious, BLINK Magazine Vol. 034, 2019
Awarded Artist Residency
2026
B28 Residency Nordic Culture Point, FI

Saari Residence by KONE Foundation, FI

2025
Örö Art Residency, Summer Artist Program, FI

E75 Art Bus Programme and Artist Residency, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, FI and GR

Island Connect, Creative Europe Residency for Performing Arts, FR and ES

ESPRONCEDA Center for Art and Culture, Barcelona, ES

2024
Art Lives Here - Photographic Artist Residency by Leonardo Hotels, PL

Nordiskt Ljus, SE

Camp Method Residency for Kotka Art Biennale, FI

Winter Campus Residency, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, DE

2023 
SIM Artist Residency, Reykjavik, IS

Theatre in Palm Artist Residency, SE & FI

2021
Three Shadows Photography Art Center & Portman Hotel Residency, CN

Aranya Eastern Rising Tide Photography Artist Residency Program, CN

Photographic Artist Residency Program, Yan Art Gallery and A8 Design Center, CN

2020  
Ripple: Artist-in-Residence Program, Spontaneous Art Village, Shanghai, CN

Performances & Concerts
2025
La Nature Festival, BE

El centre de creació C.IN.E, ES

Theatre Alibi,  Corsica

Solo Concert at Aranya Hall, CN

Copenhagen Photo Festival, DK

MANIFEST: IO: Symposium for New Media and Electronic Art, Berlin

2024
Aalto Media Lab, Helsinki

Yö Galleria, Helsinki

Selected Sound Artist for ORGANISTRUM Program, KokoTheater, Helsinki

Nomads Festival: Helsinki Experimental Series, Performing with Helsinki Improvisers Orchestra, Forum Box Gallery, Helsinki

Rendered Voice, Skissernas Museum, Lund

Intent: Practice, Research and Togetherness, Helsinki International Artist Programme, Helsinki

Solo: Kulturhus Cyklopen, Stockholm Fringe Festival, Stockholm

Concert at Nordist Ljus, Kungälv

Solo: Outsider Art Festival, Mad House, Helsinki

SLURPS - New Stage of Contemporary Art, Pori

Kotka Art Biennale, Finland

Performance and Presentation, 30 Best Young European High Potentials Creative Talents by Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE), Design Museum of Barcelona

Concert, Microtonal Music Studios Research and Study Week, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki

Solo Concert, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Kalbe

Performance at SIM Residency, Reykjavik

2023

Vocalist in Helsinki Improvisation Orchestra, Helsinki

Performance at PENTHOUSE Gallery, Helsinki

Polyphonic, Crypt Gallery, London

Performance at Finnish Museum of Theatre, Helsinki

Photosynth Social Club: Summer Beat Camp & Sound Bathouse Performance, PIXELACHE Festival, Helsinki

Vocalist in Chicago Boys - While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming, IHME Helsinki
Previous Grants 2026 B28 Residency Nordic Culture Point, FI

2026 Saari Residence by KONE Foundation, FI

2025 Artist Grant, Espoo City, Finland

2025 Örö Art Residency, Summer Artist Program, FI

2025 E75 Art Bus Programme and Artist Residency, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, FI and GR

2025 Island Connect, Creative Europe Residency for Performing Arts, FR and ES

2025 ESPRONCEDA  Center for Art and Culture and PMP Project Residency  Grant,  ES

2024 Frame Contemporary Art Finland

2024 Northern Photographic Centre Exhibition Grant

2024 Leonardo Hotels, Winner of the Art Lives Here Programme

2024 Nordiskt Ljus Residency Grant

2024 Camp Method Residency Grant for Kokta Art Biennale

2024 Migration Institute of Finland Research Grant

2024 Finnfoto Grant for Exhibition Production

2024  Winter Campus Residency Grant, Künstlerstadt Kalbe

2023-2024 Aalto University, Art and Media Grant

2023 Ruskeat Tytöt Media

2023 Amatryx Lab & Studio and Michigan State University

2023 Theatre in Palm Residency Grant, Funded by Creative Europe

2023 Aalto University, Scholarship



Other Artistic Programmes
2024
Tutor for Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Art, MA, Aalto University

Performance and Presentation, 30 Best Young European High Potentials Creative Talents by Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE), Design Museum of Barcelona

Vocalist in Helsinki Improvisation Orchestra, Helsinki

2023
Selected Artists of Hamburg Portfolio Review, Hamburg

Vocalist in Chicago Boys - While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming, IHME Helsinki

Subjective Atlas of Finland, Subjective Editions, Curated by Annelys Devet

2021
Selected artist for Connections Through Culture, China-British Art Links, British Council

Prize for Excellence at The One. art Global NFT Arts Competition

2020
Young Power Artist Program, BOBOSNAP Magazine

2019
First Prize at Photography Competition, Art23 Contemporary Art Gallery, Guangzhou