EventsThe New Social Environment#1319
Tom Burr & Craig Jun Li
Featuring Burr and Li
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artists Tom Burr and Craig Jun Li have a conversation about their practices on the occasion of their concurrent exhibitions in New York.
In this Talk
Tom Burr

Tom Burr (b. 1963, New Haven, Connecticut; based in New York and Connecticut) revisits the formal vocabulary of minimalism and post-minimalism and examines the entanglements of architecture, identity, and public space. Burr was the subject of a 2025 solo exhibition at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria and will participate in the 2026 edition of the Counterpublic Triennial in St. Louis, Missouri. Torrington Project, a major monograph dedicated to the artist's 2021-24 landmark installation-studio-exhibition space of the same name, was published by Primary Information in 2025. He is a recipient of the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. Tom Burr: Journal Works is on view at Bortolami, New York through February 28, 2026.
Craig Jun Li

“CJ” Craig Jun Li ( born 1998, China) lives and works in New York City. Li’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon; lower_cavity, Holyoke; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Kurtkubin, CDMX; SYSTEMA, Marseille; François Ghebaly, LA & New York; Taon, Ivry-sur-Seine; ROMANCE, Pittsburgh; Chris Andrews, Montréal; RAINRAIN, New York; September Sessions, Stockholm; hatred 2, New York; Prairie, Chicago; and Canal Projects, New York, among others. Li operates a nomadic curatorial project, “Benny’s Video,” currently hosted in a studio sublet in Bushwick.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨