Li Rui graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Paris, New York, Beijing, Taiwan, China, and Bangkok, and has participated in international art fairs, international contemporary art exhibitions, and group exhibitions of Asian contemporary art in the United States, Germany, and Beijing. His work has been exhibited numerous times in Korea at the Amway Gallery, the Onyang Folk Museum, and in China at the Tanko Moofland Art Museum, the Guardian Art Center, the Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, the Today Art Museum, the Sishang Art Museum, the Jinshang Museum, the Time Art Museum, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, The Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art, Ku Art Center, Yunnan Literature and Art Museum, and galleries in Chicago and China.