JACOB LI ROSENBERG (he/they) is a Chinese and Jewish emerging multi-media artist and caretaker born and raised in Wisconsin. After graduating from the UC Berkeley with BAs in Art Practice and Sociology, they currently reside in San Francisco.
A byproduct of uprooted ancestries, Li Rosenberg’s work interweaves personal narratives and ancestral exploration, discussing the convergences of their cultural identities. They focus on themes of familial lore, tradition, language, generational care, love, and traumas, labor, and the archive.
Li Rosenberg’s spatially-focused and historically-engaged approach to art-making materializes in the form of installation, photography, video, printmaking, textiles/wearables, and performance, among others.
In recent years, the artist has reconnected with their immigrant roots in the Bay Area. Li Rosenberg’s Po Po (grandmother) is currently the central subject of their artwork. The artist has worked to put together missing pieces of untold histories by exploring rich familial archives and constructing new ones.