Chen Wei Born 1980 in Zhejiang, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
EDUCATION
2002 B.A., Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Chen Wei: Goodnight, HOW Art Gallery, Shanghai
2019 Chen Wei: Goodbye, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai Chen Wei: Night Falls, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore Chen Wei: Drifting Along, Buero Basel, Switzerland
2018 Chen Wei: Where Are You Going Tonight, chi K11 Art Space, Guangzhou, China Chen Wei - Falling Light, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2017 Chen Wei, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing Chen Wei: The Club, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2016 Chen Wei - 2016 Cacooca Art Exhibition: Think, Wrong Gallery Taipei, Taipei Chen Wei: Noon Club, JNBY Art Space, Hangzhou, China
2015 Chen Wei: The Last Man, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai Chen Wei: In the Waves, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai Chen Wei: Noon Insomnia, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore Chen Wei: Yesterday Shop, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany Chen Wei: Chaotic Sentence, Stieglitz19, Antwerp, Belgium Chen Wei: Night Paris, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2014 Chen Wei: The Stars in The Night Sky Are Innumerable, Australia China Art Foundation, Sydney Chen Wei: Slumber Song, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London Chen Wei, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2012 Chen Wei: More, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai Chen Wei: Rain In Some Areas, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2011 Chen Wei: Tight Rope, Yokohama Creative City Center(YCC), Yokohama, Japan Chen Wei: The Augur's Game, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy
2010 Chen Wei: Photography 2006-2009, Galería Full Art, Seville, Spain Chen Wei: House of Recovery, LISTE 15, Basel Switzerland
2009 Chen Wei: Photography Works From 2007-2009, M97 Gallery, Shanghai Chen Wei: Everyday Scenery and Props, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong Chen Wei: Partial Melancholy, Laboratory Art Beijing Project, Beijing
2008 Chen Wei: The Fabulist's Path, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Affect, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2020 On Sabbatical, West Bund Museum, Shanghai How Do We Begin?, X Museum, Beijing Layering and Composition, The Two movement and Practice of Contemporary Chinese Photography, Xie Zilong Photography Center, Changsha, China The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2019, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen Collection Exhibition: Scales, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan New Look, Baiziting Art Center, Nanjing, China CACHE - from B to Z, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai Anonymous Society for Magick, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong When many pass one's way…, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai Encounter, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore Time, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore Private Viewing Room, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai When The Memory Has Not Been Forgotten, X Photo Gallery, Changsha, China About Us, Young Photography from China, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany 2019 The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing New Art History, 2008 - 2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, YinChuan, China With/Against the Flow - Contemporary Photographic Intervention, Guangzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China Phantom Plane - Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong The Racing Will Continue, the Dancing Will Stay, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Wunderkammer Oberösterreich. Wiar a Hünderl sein Herrn, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria Glow Like That, K11 Atelier, Hong Kong, China Long Day, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China Pal(ate)ette, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai ShanghART Beijing - Winter Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing Transformer - A Rebirth of Wonder, The Store X, London
2018 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Shenzhen OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China Imagined Borders - The 12th Gwangju Biennale Exhibition, Gwangju, Korea #YOU#ME#OUR SELFIES, Visual Arts Center, Hong Kong Night Fever, Designing Club Culture 1960-today, Vitra Design Museum, Germany Brilliant City, David Zwirner Gallery, Hong Kong White Flash, ShanghART Gallery, Beijing Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa, Altering Home, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Daegu Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu, South Korea Dance with It, Taikang Space, Beijing Witness, Chen Wei, Cui Jie, Hao Jingban & Zhang Ruyi, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK Negative Positive, Wanying Art Space, Shijiazhuang, China
2017 Simultaneous Eidos - Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China LIGHT UP Therapy Resort, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai Shanghai Galaxy II, Yuz Museum, Shanghai 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography(1976-2017) - Three Shadows 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing The Staged Club, Hongkun Museum of Fine Art, Beijing Image Core Sample - Video and Photography from The Collection of Adrian Cheng, chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai The Reason Why Classic Is, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen Paradoxa - Art from Present China, Casa Cavazzinni, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy The Modern Look, Part I, MODERN ART BASE, Shanghai One World Exposition: #LIKE4LIKE, CHI K11 Art Base, Hong Kong The Genius of the Crowd, Jendela Visual Space, Singapore After Party: Collective Dance and Individual Gymnastics, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong Physical Theatre, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai You Really Know Where You Are. For The First Time in History, Unicorn Center for Art, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing Lianzhou Photo 2017 - Your Selfe Stick (and You), Lianzhou, Guangdong, China
2016 Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Chinese Whispers: Recent Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Society, Houston, U.S.A. China: Grain to Pixel, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia Another Landscape, Yang Art Museum, Beijing We, A Community of Chinese Contemporary Artists, chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai New voices: a dslcollection story, Klein Sun Gallery, New York MIC/MAC, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris Sullivan’s Attic, Mouart Gallery, Beijing The Suggestive Wheel: An Era of Metaphors, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China
2015 The System of Objects, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 28°00′N 120°42′E, How Art Museum, Wenzhou, China Cinematheque, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai Photography Now - An International Survey, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London China 8, The Work in Progress: Photography from China, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 28 Chinese, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, U.S.A. Re-exposure, Poly Gallery, Hong Kong PARADI$E B!TCH, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014 Performance and Imagination: Chinese Photography 1911-2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida Silence: The 1990s, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris 2013 28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida Degeneration, Shanghai OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai ON|OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Shanghai Surprise: A Group Show on Contemporary Art in Shanghai, chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai Reading, Le Space and Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
2012 The First "CAFAM·Future" Exhibition - Sub-Phenomena: Report on the State of Chinese Young Art, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Katonah Museum of Art, New York; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Daily of Concept: A Practice of Life, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2011 One Man Theater - Works by Post-80s Artists, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai Hypnosis, Other Gallery, Beijing Catch The Moon In The Water, James Cohan Gallery, New York In a Perfect World, Meulensteen Gallery, New York Parts and Whole, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo In The Heat of The Sun, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Red, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Refection of Mind - MoCA Shanghai Envisage III, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai TORA TORA TORA: Chinese Cutting-Edge Photography Exhibition, Caochangdi Art District, Beijing Jungle - A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing Alex: A Tribute to Alexander McQueen, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai Soldier Crab: An Exhibition of the First Annual Caochangdi Photospring, Li Space, Beijing
2009 YiPai - Century Thinking: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing The 3rd Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Warm Up, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Seoul International Photography Festival 2009, Seoul Blackboard, ShanghART Gallery H-Space, Shanghai China Now: The Edge of Desire, Max Lang Gallery, New York New Work from China - Painting, Photography & Video, HT Contemporary Space, Singapore Santa's Workshop Shanghai, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai
2008 Night on Earth: Spatial Constructions and Time-based Collisions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai Deep Pond and Float Chamber, Nanjing Qinghe Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China Mediations Biennale 2008, Poznan, Poland Pingyao International Photography Festival 2008, Pingyao, China EXQUISITE CORPSE: China Surreal, M97 Gallery, Shanghai
2007 Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists, Himalayas Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai; Arario Gallery, Beijing Unpredictable: Chen Wei and Jin Shan New Photography from China, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles Against the Wall: Contemporary Chinese Artists, Corkin Gallery, Toronto Amateur World: A Contemporary Art Group Show, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing Shouting Truth: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
2006 The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale: Media_City Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Poetic Reality: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China Restless: Photography and New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2005 GIFTS: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Art Museum of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Four Seasons: Sound Performance, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai; Cubic Art Center, Beijing
2003 White Tower Mountain - Contemporary Art Exhibition, Baitaling, Hangzhou, China
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong dslcollection, Paris Ullens Foundation Collection, Switzerland K11 Foundation, China The Carmignac Foundation, France White Rabbit Collection, Sydney