Ang Li is an architectural designer who joins the University of Toronto from Northeastern University where she held the appointment of Associate Professor. She is the founder of Ang Li Projects, an interdisciplinary design practice that works at the intersection of art, architecture, material culture and construction ecology to investigate the maintenance rituals and material afterlives behind the modern built environment. Her work unfolds across scales and media to include material research, designed objects and furniture, architectural installations and public space interventions that are held together by an interest in exploring alternative cultures of making centered around repair, reuse and recirculation.  

Li’s work has been featured in national and international exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art (2024), the United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), The Boston Public Art Triennale (2022), Exhibit Columbus (2021), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019), The Villa Terra Decorative Arts Museum (2018), and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2013), among others. She is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residence), Landmark Columbus, and the Boston Public Art Triennial.

Prior to her current appointment, Li held faculty positions as a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and as the 2015–16 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow at the University at Buffalo. She has also worked as an architectural designer for several international design practices in New York, London and Stockholm on a range of cultural and infrastructural projects.  

Li holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge.