Li Huai received her BA in fine arts at the Beijing Film Academy and her MFA in art at the California Institute of the Arts. She has been on the faculty of the Visual Arts Department at UCSD since 1994. Her specialties include installation, painting, drawing, multi-media, and Chinese calligraphy.  In thematic terms, her work deals with various issues related to East-West cultural interaction in an increasingly transnational age, including issues involving the Asian diaspora. Her major one-person shows have been staged in national and international museums, art centers and galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, Singapore, New Orleans, Hong Kong, Rimini (Italy), Edinburgh (Scotland), Ravenna (Italy), and Lyon (France). Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, China, South Africa, Japan and other national and international venues.