Zetao Li was born in 1997, in Changsha, Hunan Province.

He graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree and obtained a master’s degree from the same department of  Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2022. 

Currently, he works and lives in Chongqing. His recent research mainly starts from his personal ‘burnout’ symptoms. By observing and dealing with the scenes and things related to his daily life, he tries to clarify the reasons behind this symptom: Is it a punishment mechanism? Or a reward mechanism? Is it the discipline of the system? Or the assessment of performance? Will this state of burnout keep cycling? Can one be liberated from it under certain circumstances?