Born in the northwest part of China and spent most of his life by moving from one place to another, Lin Li’s passion stays on painting all the time though most of his productions are about graphic design. After graduated from School of Arts, Northwest University for Nationalities in Lanzhou China, he attended graduate school of the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University in Beijing for 3 years until joining the faculty in the fall of 1996 to begin a career in teaching at the same place. In 2004, he went to the School of Art in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and obtained a MFA degree in Graphic Design. Since 2006, he starts to re-construct his old dream as a painter. That is why he came back college again as a student at the School of Art and Art History in the University of South Florida in 2007.