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Li Wei
(
Chinese
, born 1970)
Li Wei
Love at the High Place 1, n.1,
2004
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1970
Born in Huai Nan City An Hui Province, China
2005
Award: "Macau Art museum overseas communicate the prize"- Macau art museum
2006
Award: "31 photographers with the most creative world"- American Getty, 2006
Lives and works in Beijing, China
Studied at Suzhou Silk College
Studied at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts Chongqing, China
Studied at An Hui Teachers' College Wu Hu, China
Studied at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts Hangzhou, China
Exhibitions
2015
“Beyond Gravity”, Galerie Richard, New York, NY, USA (solo)
“Bin He 1996-2004”, SongZhuang Museum of Art, Beijing, China
“Liquid Times”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
“Itinerary”, Gidang Museum, Seoqwipo, South Korea
“Fly over the Ringling Museum of art” Saratoga, FL, USA (solo)
“Li Wei, High Place” Paris-Beijing Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
“Photography and Video Art in China Now”, The Ringling Museum of Art, Seratoga, FL, USA
“Li Wei, High Place”, Paris-Beijing Gallery, France (solo)
“Fly at The Grand-Palais, Paris”, France (solo)
“Fly over Milan,” Italy (solo)
2014
“Fly over Amsterdam, Rotterdam” Netherlands (solo)
“Li Wei, The Flying Chinese Man “Happiness Theory”, GRID2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
"The change - the second Hunan young artists nominated Exhibition" ChangSha, China
“2013 Rapid Pulse, International Performance Art Festival”, Chicago ,IL, USA
“Roots Of Relations”, Songzhuang Art Center, Bejjing, China
“See But Not Now”, Shanghai, China
“IncarnatIons”, Photographie-Performances de Chine, Angers, France
“Anti Gravity” Shanghai, China (solo)
“Norev-Over” , collective photography and video exhibition, Beijing, China
“The 55th Venice Biennale “, Kenya Pavilion, Italy
“Flying of Dreams”, Montpellier, France (solo)
2013
“Autostadt”, Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
“The Rapture of Romantic Illusions”,Fudi Aromatic Villa, Shanghai, China
“Daydreaming with…”,Hong Kong, China
“Now! China! Korea! 2012! -Contemporary Korean And Chinese Art Exhibition”, Beijing, China
“Contemporary Chinese Photography”, Katonah Museum Of Art, Katonah, NY,USA
“Biennale Giovani Monza”, Monza, Italy
“Research Exhibition On ‘Post-70s Generation’Artists Jianghan Star Plan 2012 Rejoice In Dissensus”, WuHan Art Museum, WuHan, China
“A History of Chinese Contemporary Photography”, Paris-Beijing Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“L’Art De La Radiance-30th Anniversary Celebration Presented By Cle De Peau Beaute”, Hong Kong, China
"Standing at The Water's Edge",M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
“The High Life of LI WEI”, kunst.licht Photo Art Gallery, Shanghai (solo)
“Li Wei”, Parc de la Villete, Paris (solo)
“Dream City, Tunisia 2012”, Tunis, Tunisia
“Li Wei”, Dock Sud Gallery, France (solo)
2012
“Reality Anew”, LDX Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
2011
“Li Wei_Lucca Photo Fest”, Lucca, Italy (solo)
Remaking Vision, Travelling Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Photography
box(e), Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy
Beyond Gravity,10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China, (solo)
Daegu Photo Biennale 2010, Daegu, Korea
Passing China, Gallery Sanstorium, Istanbul, Turkey
FUCK UPS, FABLES AND FIASCOS, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany
Li Wei performance ‘Take Away’, Shanghai Tang, Hong Kong, China (solo)
CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS MADRID, Madrid Pavilion of the EXPO 2010, Shanghai, China
Mostra SESC de Artes 2010, St. Paul, Brazil
China Welcomes You. Begegnungen 2010, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany
2010
Photo Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Foundation Vevey, Ville d'images, Festival Images, Switzerland
Besides Gravity, Mogadishni CPH Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
The amazing mirror maze of the self, Michael Schultz Gallery Beijing, China (solo)
Li Wei, Galeria TRIBECA, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Beijing Time, MATADERO MADRID ,Madrid , Spain
WIDTH, Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, China
The View From Elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) in partnership with Queensland Art Gallery present; Gallery of Modern Art/ Australian Cinematheque
China Now: The Edge of Desire, Max Lang and Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, USA
Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,Vancouver, Canada
2009
INCARNATIONS, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing, China
China: The Contemporary Rebirth, Palazzo Reale Museum, Milan, Italy/ Mouvement d'Art Public/ Make Art Public (MAP), Canada
Drawn in the Clouds: Contemporary Asian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
Fabricating Images from History, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
Consumption of History, East Asia Contemporary, Shanghai, China
Beijing 2008, Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Supernatural: China's Contemporary Photography, Artgate Gallery, New York, USA
Assembling Under the Five Rings, The Legend Luxury & Entertainment Center, Beijing, China
BODY ART: New photography from China, Asian Art Coordinating Council, Denver, USA
Immoral Facts and Fables, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany
Out of Place, Robischon Gallery, Denver, USA
Drawn in the Clouds: Contemporary Asian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2008
LI WEI Solo Exhibition, Yeh Rong Jia Culture & Art Foundation, Taiwan (solo)
Solo project, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Beijing 2008, Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Olhares Interiores-Inward Gazes - Documentaries of Performances Art, Museum of Macao, China
Assembling Under the Five Rings, The Legend Luxury & Entertainment Center, Beijing, China
BODY ART: New photography from China, Asian Art Coordinating Council, Denver, USA
Supernatural: China's Contemporary Photography, Artgate Gallery, New York, USA
Li Wei Falls To…, Espace Cultural Ample Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Zhuyi, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
SURREALITES, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection,Museum of Fine Arts,Houston, USA
Floating - New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea
Made in China-China art Now, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
China Now: Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
The 38th Recontres de Arles Photographie, Arles, France.
Chinese Photography,Criterion Gallery,Australia
Dragon's Evolution”, New York China-Square Art Center.
SURGE”, Beijing 798,
The 7th Gana Photo Festival -CHINA contemporary Photo & Vide,Gana art Center,Seoul
2007
Szene Sommer 07, Salzburg, Austria
LIWEI WEIHONG HUANYAN, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
A Pause For Humanity, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Li Wei, Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain
A Pause for Humanity, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China
For All Audiences,SALA Rekalde Art Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Retours de Chine, Toulouse Art Museum, France
China Between Past and Future And Performances, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Park in progress, France
LI WEI, Galleria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain (solo)
LI WEI, PYO Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
LI WEI, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
2006
Transcendence: A Mirror of China, The:artist:network, New York, USA (solo)
COLD ENERGY, PYO, Beijing, China
THE GESTURE - A VISUAL LIBRARY IN PROGRESS, Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, Italy
70 Empress Arts, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Out Of the Red-2, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano Italy
Ruins`Flowers, OX WAREHOUSE, Macau, Portugal
Illusory Reality, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
New Photographers 2006, Cannes, France
Out of the Red - 2, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Quarter, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, Italy
Illusory Reality, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China
2005
Olhares Interiores – Inward Gazes, Documentaries of Chinese Performances Art - Museum of Macao, Portugal
THE SECOND REALITY, Photographs from China, Piazza of the Berlaymont building, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Artificial Merriment, Melbourne, Australia
Tiananmen Exhibition, Paris
Officina Asia, Bologna, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Cesena, Italy
MMAC Exhibition, Japan
FOLLIA, Italy
2004
LI WEI,, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China, ICP, Asia Society, New York, Smart Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2003
China Art Now – Out Of The Red, FlashArt Museum, Italy
I am China – Chinese Conceptual Photography, SOHO, Beijing, China
Manufactured Happiness, Shangri-La Art Space, Beijing, China
The Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennial, Czech Republic
DNA, Visual, Beijing, China
Bare Androgyny, Beijing, China
Seoul-Asia Art Now, Seoul Museum, South Korea
Red Square – Contemporary Art Exhibition, Red Square, Beijing, China
Mois de la photo – Histories de Chine, Museum de Auxerre, France
Xuan, Art Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, China
2002
Bogus - Chinese Conceptual Photography, Hall of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
The 2nd 'PingYao' International Photography, PingYao, ShanXi, China
Mask Vs Face, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Flying - Performance, Photography, Video, Beijing Red Square, Beijing, China
Scar - Chinese Conceptual Photography, Exhibition Hall of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Pawn-COM - Site Performance, Happy Garden Bar, Beijing, China
Site of City -- Four Person Conceptual Photography, Fun Gallery, Beijing, China
Constructed Reality - Beijing Hong Kong Conceptual Photography, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China
2001
0°C, Beijing Bridge Art, Beijing, China
Site of City – Four Persons Conceptual Photography, Fun Gallery, Beijing, China
2000
Open Art Platform, Performance Art Festival, Beijing, China
Mirror, Performance, Shanghai, China
1999
Avoiding Direct Sunlight, Art Scene China
First International Arts Literature Exhibition of China, Beijing, China
1998
Joint Art Exhibition, Beijing Hilton Hotel Gallery
Six-Person Exhibition, Qi Ran Hotel Gallery
1997
Nine-Person Exhibition, Beijing Concert Hall Gallery Beijing, China
1996
Three Person Exhibition, Beijing Concert Hall Gallery Beijing, China
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