Wei Qingji (China, b. 1971~)

1971      Born in Qingdao, China

1995      BFA, Oriental Art Department, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

2003      Postgraduate, Mural Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

2008      MFA, College of Art and Design, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

Currently, a Professor at the Oriental Art Department, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

Solo Exhibitions

2015      China Pegasus – Wei Qingji Ink Painting, UPM Biofore House, Helsinki

2013      Fairytale – Wei Qingji Works 2005-2013, Haufu Art Space, Shanghai

Thing·Form – Wei Qingji New Works on Paper, Gallery 99, Aschaffenburg, Germany

2010      Speciosity – Wei Qingji’s New Paintings, Embassy of Czech Republic, Beijing

2009      Fiction II – Wei Qingji’s Works, High Land Gallery, Beijing

2008      Ink Paintings, Gallery 99, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Fiction – Wei Qingji’s Works 2005-2007, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

2006      Thing·Form 2005-2006, Eurasia Center, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

The Property of Memory, High Land Gallery, Beijing

Plotless Narrations, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

1999       Ink Paintings, Brush Work Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Group Exhibitions

2015       A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Works by Chinese Artists, The Galleries at Cleveland State

University, Cleveland, USA

The Persistence of Impermanence, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, Austria

The Spectres in the Double Shadow, Alioth Gallery, Shanghai

HETERO – Entity: Myths, Narration, Imagination, Shenzhen E Museum of Contemporary Art,

Shenzhen, China

Chinese Art History: Another Clue of Chinese Contemporary Art, Elion Art Gallery, Beijing

Low Temperature – Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou, Meou Art Space,

Shanghai

2014      Variation: Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series II, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Ink State – Contemporary Ink Art in Guangdong, China Cultural Centre in Sydney, Sydney

Black out – Wei Qingji and Reinhard Voss Works, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, Mosbach,

Germany

Experiment, Transformation – Contemporary Chinese Ink Art since 1980s, Nassau County

Government Building, Long Island, USA

Re-modernization: The 3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Art, Hubei Museum of Art,

Wuhan, China

Social Landscape – The Landscape Narration in Chinese Contemporary Painting as well as Its

Cultural Concept Changes, The Chengdu International Communication Center for Cultural and Art Pieces, Chengdu, China

Lesser Logic – Linguistic Encoding and Discursive Expression in Contemporary Art, Parkview

Green Gallery, Beijing

The New Ink Art – Reborn of Traditional Chinese Culture, Shijiazhuang Museum of Art,

Shijiazhuang, China

On-Site: Cross-Contextual Ink Art Experience, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai

The 28th Asian International Art Exhibition – Works from China Pavilion, Guangdong

Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Reshaping Shuimo – New History, Jinling Museum of Art, Nanjing, China

The Persistence of Impermanence, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Beyond the Ocean – art from China, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA

2013      The 9th Florence Biennale of International Contemporary Art, Fortezza da Basso, Florence,

Italy

Underlying Force: A Group Exhibition of Guangzhou Contemporary Art’s Generating Line, 53 Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2013 China Annual Art Critics Nominated Exhibition, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China

Way – Contemporary Ink Art, Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai

Ink File, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China; Jeju Museum of Art,

Jeju, Korea

Open Books – Artists and the Chinese Folding books, Sanshang Art, Hangzhou, China

Learning from the Literati 4, OV Gallery, Shanghai

Confronting Anitya – Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, MUSEO MAGI ‘900, Bologna;

Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy

Breaking Old and Create New, Haufu Art Space, Shanghai

The Logic, Esse Space, Beijing

The Origin of Dao: New Dimensions in Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Museum of

Art, Hong Kong

The 55th Venice Biennale Parallel Exhibition: The Persistence of Impermanence, Palazzo

Michiel, Venice, Italy

The 55th Venice Biennale Parallel Exhibition: Voice of the Unseen, Palazzo Michiel, Venice,

Italy

RE-INK: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012, Today Art

Museum, Beijing

Ink Changing, Tiantai Art Museum, Qingdao, China

Bad Painting, Huafu Art Space, Shanghai; Art Museum of Zhejiang Painting Academy,

Hangzhou, China

2012      Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting Joint Exhibition, VA Gallery, Hong Kong

Contrast – Inheritance and Development, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China

Moon is Origin of the Light, Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, China

Re-coding: Reconstruction of Rhetoric and Narration, The China Millennium Monument,

Beijing

Ink·New Art, The European Headquarters of the United Nations, Geneva; Swiss Art Exhibition

Center, Basel, Switzerland

One World with Hong Kong, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai

Ink Medium·Infinite, Da Xaing Art Space, Taichung, Taiwan

Beyond Representation – An exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Bank of China Tower,

Hong Kong

Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London

Small Paintings, Dade Tang Art Space, Shanghai

Research Exhibition on the Post – ‘70s Generation: Rejoice in Distinctive Creation, Wuhan Art

Museum, Wuhan, China

Shanghai New Ink Painting, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

2012 International Ink Painting Exhibition, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei

The 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Ink Limit, Huafu Art Space, Shanghai; Nantong Central Art Museum, Nantong, China

100 Years of Chinese Ink Painting, The Louvre, Paris

2011      Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Contemporary Ink and Wash in Guangdong, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Ink Without Rules, 128 Art Space, Shanghai

Past·Now, Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong; Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong

The 9th A-ONE Korea·China·Japan International Exchange Exhibition, Nan Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

Ink Agreement – China Contemporary Ink Painting Experiments, Sunshine Space, Shantou, China

Conceptual Ink, Feizi Gallery, Shanghai

2010       Dragon – from Museum Collections and Sigg Collections, Museum Sankturbanhof, Sursee,

Switzerland

New Image – Chinese Contemporary Ink-and-Wash, Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum,

Shanghai

Trace and Qualitative – Beijing Film Academy’s 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Beijing Film

Academy, Beijing

Do My Stuff – Contemporary Art at Guangdong, 53 Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Back and Forth, Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Shanghai

Ink, Not Ink, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb

2009      Open Vision – A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum in Prague,

Prague

Metropolis Now! – A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Meridian International Center,

Washington, D.C.

Open Flexibility: Innovative Contemporary Ink Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

The 1st Chongqing Biennial for Young Artists, Chongqing Exhibition Center, Chongqing, China

New Image – Chinese Contemporary Ink-and-Wash, Belarusian National Museum History and Culture Museum, Minsk; Historical Museum of Serbia, Beograd

Normality – 2009 Art Works, Fine Arts Literature Art Centre, Wuhan, China

Ink, Not Ink, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA; The Royal Castle in Warsaw Museum, Warszawa; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

Regroup, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

2008       New Transforming Marks of Ink, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

Ink, Not Ink, Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangzhou, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing

MoCA Envisage II: Butterfly Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai

Water/Color: Contemporary Ink Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Sunshine International Art Annual Exhibition, Sunshine Art Museum, Beijing

Appreciation·Pure Mind, Da-Xiang Art Space; Art Center of Jingyi University, Taichung, Taiwan

Theme Exhibition of 798 Art Festival, 798 Art Center Hall, Beijing

Chinese and Japanese Contemporary Paintings from Zeit-Foto Collection, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai

3 Artist @798, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

Guangzhou Station - Guangdong Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Collection – Select Drawings, Culture Services of the French Embassy, New York

Attribute of Image, Huihao Art Space, Guangzhou, China

2007       The supplemental History – Contemporary Art Works from Collection of GDMoA, Guangdong

Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Succession, Deduce, Soak – Water, Ink, World of Monochrome, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

Neither Orient nor West, K Gallery, Chengdu, China

Echoes & Reflections, China Square Art Space, New York

The Open Ink Painting, Guan Shan Yue Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China

Message from Qingdao, TS1 Gallery, Beijing

China Version, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2006      Swaying “Boundary”, National Art Gallery, Bangkok

My Being: Distinctive Character of South China, Art Gallery of Guangzhou Academy of Fine

Arts, Guangzhou, China

Shuimo∙Today, Beijing East Art Center, Beijing

A Question of Perspective: Exhibition of Works by Asian Culture Council Fellows 2006, Lee

Gardens, Hong Kong

The Exhibition of Chinese Painting Documentaries, Museum of Nanjing, Nanjing, China

International Modern Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Asia Art Center, New York

Shanghai New Ink Painting Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Museum of Art, Shanghai

Un peu d’Alice II, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

Expressions of Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash, Gallery of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts,

Tianjin, China

Meditation and Narration, Artist Commune, Hong Kong

The 1st Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing

Do·Mook, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2005       Blossoming, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

Exhibition of Modern Ink and Wash, Circuit in Taiwan, Taiwan

Ink and Paper – Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Kunsthalle Weimar, Weimar, Germany

The Quality of Materiality: Experimental Ink and Wash, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

The 2nd Chengdu Biennale, International Center of Exhibition, Chengdu, China

Retrospection of Experimental Ink & Wash 1985-2000, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China

Ink on Paper – Contemporary Ink and Wash, Palace Rihour, Lille, France

Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

Exhibition of Jinling Ink and Wash Media, Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Painting Institute, Nanjing, China

Conspire – The 1st Exhibition of TS1 Gallery, TS1 Gallery, Beijing

The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art; Xin Yi International Club, Guangzhou, China

2004      Dot, Proliferation and Penetration, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

Open Attitude, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Democracy Forever, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

The 19th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Ink and Wash Media Triennial of Nanjing, Jiangsu Museum of Art, Nanjing, China

2003      Impression China, Impressions Gallery, Paris

Moving On – Contemporary Art from China, National University of Singapore Museum, Singapore

Chinese Experimental Ink and Wash Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing

Uncertainty, Artist Commune, Hong Kong

Made in China, Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Les Mesnuls, France

Chinese Art Today, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing

Illusion, Museum63, Hong Kong; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2002      Chinese Contemporary Ink and Wash, Hebei Painting Institute, Shijiazhuang, China

A New Era of Ink and Wash, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall; Guan Xiang Art Gallery, Taipei

Phenomenon: Post-Lingnan School and Guangdong New Ink and Wash, Guangdong

Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Bridge – Changchun Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Far East Museum of Art, Changchun, China

Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ceramics, Shi Jing Yi Art Gallery, Foshan, China

The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

The 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai

2001      City Slang, He Xiangning Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China

Human Scenery, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing

Reshuffling Cards, Shenzhen Academy of Sculpture, Shenzhen, China

China: 20 Years of Ink and Wash Experiment, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Dialogue and Puzzle – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ducal Palace, Mantua, Italy

The 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China

Dusseldorf International Exhibition of Arts, Dusseldorf Exhibition Center, Dusseldorf, Germany

The 16th Asia International Exhibition of Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Xi'an International Exhibition of Ink and Wash, Xi'an International Exhibition Center, Xi'an, China

2000      New Chinese Painting Exhibition, Liu Haisu Museum of Art, Shanghai

On the Periphery of Ink and Wash, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong

Ink, Ink, Ink......, Zhu Qizhan Museum of Art, Shanghai

1999      The Interaction of Ink Painting and Installation, Artist Commune, Hong Kong

Plural Identity, South China Normal University Gallery, Guangzhou, China

The Young Generation and the New Millennium, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

1997      Chinese Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai

Three Dimensions Exhibition, South China Normal University Gallery, Guangzhou, China

1993      The 2nd Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition, Yangzi River Museum of Art,

Wuhan, China

Awards

2013      Lorenzo Prize – The 9th Florence Biennale of International Contemporary Art, Italy

Gold Star Prize – National Art Magazine, China

2009      The 1st Chongqing Biennial for Young Artists Award, China

2006      Asian Culture Council Award, USA

2004      Fu Baoshi Prize – Jiangsu Provincial Government, China

Collections

Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Les Mesnuls, France

Ducal Palace, Mantua, Italy

Conseil Général des Yvelines, France

National University of Singapore Museum, Singapore

Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China

Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, China

Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China

Guangdong Art Institute, Guangzhou, China

Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai