Qiuwen Li Featured at Triton Museum of Art | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Qiuwen Li Featured at Triton Museum of Art

September 17, 2025
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Qiuwen Li, "Echoes in Color"
Qiuwen Li ’16, MFA

Qiuwen Li ’16, MFA, is currently showing a solo exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art. Her show, Echoes in Color, explores the emotional and visual dimensions of language through motion graphics and digital posters.

Originally from China and now based in the Bay Area, Li combines her background in bilingual communication, graphic design, and typography to create a new visual system she calls "colorography"—a method of encoding letters through color and form. The exhibition includes her signature series Old is the New New, which interprets language through abstraction and personal symbolism.

Li currently serves as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Santa Clara University. Her work has been shown internationally and recognized by Creative Quarterly, the Society of Typographic Arts, and the College Art Association, among others.

"As a designer, I understand the need for legibility," Li says, "but I am more concerned with communicating something more visceral, expressive, and imaginative."

Echoes in Color
August 30, 2025–January 11, 2026
Triton Museum of Art (Santa Clara, California)

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