Introduction
Ma Lingli was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1989 and graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a BFA in 2012. In recent years, Ma's research has focused on the materiality in her artwork and allowing images to superimpose the material process, presented as contacts, entanglement, or separation between the tug of war between the self and the external world. Her works have been exhibited at the National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China) , Today Art Museum (Beijing, China) , Song Art Museum (Beijing, China) , Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan), Royal College of Art Gallery (Kensington, UK) , and Fondation Taylor (Paris, France) , among others. She was awarded the First Prize in Caissa Rising Artists – Exhibition for Nominated Students (2013) and the First Prize in “The Boat of 2012” – "Aussina Cup" Annual Nomination Exhibition for Students of Contemporary Art Academies.