Peng Wei

BIOGRAPHY

1974   Born in Chengdu, China

1997   BFA, Oriental Culture and Art Department, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

2000   MFA, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Present   Lives and works in Beijing, China 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

• Peng Wei: Seven Days, 9th edition of Art Changsha, Changsha Art Museum, Hunan, China

• Peng Wei: Memory Palace, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2023

• Rooms and Stories, ZiWU the Bund, Shanghai, China
• A Room with a Story— Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Nanchizi Art Museum, Beijing, China

2020

• Peng Wei: Feminine Space, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
• Peng Wei: Feminine Space, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2019

• Old Tales Retold — Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2017

• I Thought of You — Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China

2015

• Coming Full Circle — Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

2014

• Letters From a Distance, Art Basel Hong Kong , Hong Kong

2013

• Letters From a Distance — Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2011

• Take Off the Shell — Peng Wei Works 2002–2011, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2010

• Body & Robe — Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2009

• Painting Skin — Peng Wei, Artside Gallery, Beijing, China
• Peng Wei’s Painting Installation Exhibition, Opposite House, Beijing, China
• Don’t Forget Me — Peng Wei's Works, Yintai Center, Beijing, China

2007

• Woven Clouds — Peng Wei's Exhibition, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

2004

• Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Art Scene China Gallery, Shanghai, China

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

• Art Basel, Messe Bassel, Basel, Switzerland
• Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• Tradition Transformed, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong

2024

• Ink Subversion: Through Gender Lenses, AVA Gallery, HKBU Kai Tak Campus, Hong Kong

2023

• The Sleepless Theatre, Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall, Shanghai, China
• Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, Texas, USA

2022

• Stepping out!, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, Norway; Kunstforeningen Gl
• Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

2021

• Encounter of Imagination: Dialogue Between the Divine Comedy and Classic of Mountains and Seas, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2020

• The Consciousness Flows Within, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan

2019

• 2nd Biennale Warm-up Exhibition of Chinese Painting in Wuhan: New Trend of Chinese Ink Painting Creation (The First Exhibition), Wuhan Art Museum, Hubei, China

• Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• Jing Art, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
• Brilliant Portrayals of Beijing Spanning 70 Years Selected Painting Works, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• Pal(ate)/ette/, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
• Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
• Shi Mohu, No. 8 Bridge Space of Art, Shanghai, China
• The Painted Screen: An Exhibition About an Exhibition, University of Chicago Center, Beijing, China

2018

• 5th Chinese Painting Biennale of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China 
• New Ink Art in China 1978–2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Joyce Fall-Winter 2018 with Peng Wei and the Poetry of Brush Art, Joyce New World Tower Central Flagship Store, Hong Kong
• Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
• Beyond Ink, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• 2018 Art Weihai: Interval — Contemporary Ink Exhibition, Weihai Art Museum, Shandong,China
• On Paper 2, White Space, Beijing, China
• Eye-catching and Mind-Opening Contemporary Landscape Ink Painting Exhibition, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
• Jing Art, Beijing Bazaar, Beijing, China
• Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• Dangerous Liaisons Revisited, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
• Half of the Sky — Four Artists From China, German Embassy Beijing, Beijing, China

2017

• The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong
• Memory and Contemporaneity, China Art Today — Collateral event at the 57th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
• Boundless: Ongoing Chinese Ink Art 2017, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
• Volta 13, Basel, Switzerland
• Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

2016

• Bagism — We Are All in the Same Bag!, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• From the Peony Pavilion — The Contemporary Art Exhibition, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
• Being and Inking — Documenting Contemporary Ink Art (2001–2016), Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
• Utopias/Heterotopia: Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, North Silk Factory and West Scenic Zone, Zhejiang, China
• Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• 137 Km: Nomination Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Water Ink Painting in Beijing and Tianjin, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China
• Chinese Whispers: Exhibition of Uli Sigg's Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern and ZentrumPalu Klee, Switzerland

2015

• Ink Remix: Contemporary Art From China, Taiwan & Hong Kong, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia
• Copyleft: China Appropriation Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
• A New Dynasty — Created in China, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
• Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore

2014

• The 2014 APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
• West Says East Says — Chinese Contemporary Art Research, United Art Museum, Hubei, China; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
• Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series 2, 798 Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
• Chinese Contemporary Youth Ink Yearbook Exhibition, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China; Melbourne Art Museum, Australia
• Shuimo/Water Ink: Enchanted Landscapes, S2 Gallery, New York, USA
• Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
• Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
• Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
• Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore

2013

• Real Life Stories — The Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway
• The 8th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
• The 9th National Exhibition of Chinese Hue Art Paintings, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• Through — Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA
• Shuimo — Water Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, Sotheby's New York, New York, USA
• Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2012

• A Ten-Year Retrospective: Contemporary Ink Painting from 2000 to 2010, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
• Passing Through Memory: Opening Exhibition, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
• Sketching the Heart: About Scenery, Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing, China
• On The Top of Fashion: The 1st Female Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yue Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Phoenix Symphony: Female Contemporary Arts, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Water Stains on the Wall: The Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• Silence Power — Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dialogue Space Gallery, Beijing, China
• China International Gallery Exposition, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China
• Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore

2011

• China International Gallery Exposition, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China

• Shan Shui — Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Luzern Art Museum, Luzern, Switzerland
• Reflection — Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Edgar Frei Private Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
• Pure View — 2011 Chengdu Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition, Music Park, Chengdu, China
• Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
• 7th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
• Reshaping History: China Art From 2000 to 2010, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China

2010

• R/evolution History: China Art From 2000 to 2010, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China

2009

• Europalia International Arts Festival: Attitudes — Female Art in China, European Centre of Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
• Four Square — Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2008

• New Scene — The Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, National Museum, Berlin; National Art Collection Museum, Dresden, Germany

• Hypallage — The Post-Modern Mode of Chinese of Contemporary Art, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
• Ink Not the Ink — The Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA
• The Second National Young Artists' Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Water and Color Contemporary Ink Art Show, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2007

• The Splendid Age — 50th Anniversary of Founding Beijing Painting Academy and Shanghai Institute of Chinese Paintings, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2006

• Purity and Innocence: Three Chinese Women Artists Exhibition, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, USA
• Zhu Wei, Xu Lei, & Peng Wei's Exhibition, Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China

2005

• Temperature — International Celebration of Andersen's 200th Birthday Anniversary, Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China; Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
• Century and Heaven — 2005 Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China
• The Second Beijing International Art Biennial, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Dress Up in Art — Chinese Opera Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

2004

• Dot — Radiation and Far-Reaching — Vision Expression From Paper and Ink, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China; Malaysia National Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• The New Fettle — Peng Wei & Lin Lan Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
• The 10th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
• The New Freehand Water and Ink Invitational Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
• The New Freehand Water and Ink Paintings of Six Artists, Yisu Gallery, Singapore
• Transformation & Depuration — Chinese Paintings by Artists Born in the 1970s, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China

2003

• 1st Beijing International Art Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• Liu Jianhua and Peng Wei Joint Exhibition, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA
• 2nd National Chinese Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Xinghai Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dalian, China
• The National Exhibition of Flowers and Birds Painting, Lanzhou, China

SELECTED COLLECTIONS