Li Dongping (Birth year and death year are unknown) was born in Chaoshan, Guangdong province. He studied at Nanyang Medical College in his early years, later studied specialised on oil painting in Japan. In 1934, he participated in the Show of 10 Sojourner Artists in Japan. 1935 he returned to China, then attended and founded the Chinese Independent Art Association and participated in the independent show held in the same year in Guangzhou, Shanghai and etc. Together with Zeng Ming, he founded Modern Art magazine in 1936. Attended the independent show of Chongqing in 1946.