Wei Qingji

BIOGRAPHY
1991-1995   Graduated from the Department of Oriental Art, Nankai University, majoring in Chinese painting, with a bachelor's degree
1995  Associate Professor,  Academy of Fine Arts, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
2001-2003   Completed the postgraduate course of the Mural Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2008  Master of Arts, College of Art and Design, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Present  MA Programme Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing, China

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020   

• Image and Beyond, XY Gallery, Guangzhou, China

2008   

• Wei Qingji 2005-2007, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

• Thing-Form 2005-2006, Marseille III University, France
• The Property of Memory, High Land Gallery, Beijing, China

• Wei Qingji Painting Exhibition, Brush Work Gallery, San Francisco, USA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), Guangzhou, China
• Reform Mission: Guangdong Art Centennial Exhibition-Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

• Forty Years of Contemporary Ink in China 1985-2024 Travelling Exhibition, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing; Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, China

• Contemporary Logic of a Pure and Remote View, Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai), Wuhan, China

• The Glory of Ink Painting: From Lingnan School of Painting to Greater Bay Area Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Inaugural Project, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2023-2024  

• 7th Anniversary Cross-Year Exhibition of Annual Review of Chinese Contemporary Ink: Five Solos in One ABCDE, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China

2023        

• Fine Art Asia Special Project: The Aesthetics of Wandering, Aliasn Fine Arts, Hong Kong

• Nature's Duality: 3rd Xi'an Landscape Exhibition, Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum, Xi’an, China

• Thinking with the Senses: Inaugural, Dacheng Art Museum, Changzhou, China

2019        

• Spearhead: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Ink Wash, Shanghai Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2017        

• In Flux: Chinese Contemporary Art, Art Basel Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong

• The Eternal Tao: New Dimensions in Chinese Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
• Venice Biennale Satellite Exhibition: The Persistence of Impermanence, Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy

• Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
• Research Exhibition on the Post-70s Generation: Rejoice in Distinctive Creation, Wuhan Museum of Art, China
• 100 Years of Chinese Ink Painting, Louvre, Paris, France

• Selected Asian Cultural Council Fellows: Then and Now: Works by Wei Ligang, Wei Qingji, Zhang Jianjun, Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong & Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
• Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

• Dragon: from Museum Collections and Sigg Collections, Sankturbanhof Sursee, Switzerland

• The Exhibition of Chinese Painting Documentaries, Museum of Nanjing, Nanjing, China
• 1st Annual Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
• Meditation and Narration-Contemporary Ink Exhibition, Artist Commune, Hong Kong
• International Modern Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Asian Cultural Centre, New York, USA
• China International Gallery Exposition 2006, Exhibition Hall of China World Trade Center, Beijing, China
• Shanghai New Ink Painting Exhibition, Zhe Qizhan Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
• Un Peu D’Alice II, Marseille/Aix, France
• Expressions of Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash, Gallery of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China

• Ink and Paper-Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Kunsthalle Weimar, Germany
• 2nd Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China
• Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting, Art Museum of Seoul, Korea

• Dot/Proliferation and Penetration, National Gallery of Malaysia, Malaysia
• 19th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Museum of Asia Art, Japan
• Democracy Forever, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA

• Moving On: Contemporary Art from China, NUS Museum, Singapore
• Made in China, Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, France

• 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
• 2002 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

• City Slang, He Xiangning Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
• Human Scenery, China Art Archives, and Warehouse, Beijing, China
• China:20 Years of Ink and Wash Experiment, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
• Dusseldorf International Exhibition of Arts, Dusseldorf Trade Centre, Germany
• Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Mantova Young Museum, Italy
• 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Modern Art, Chengdu, China

• New Chinese Painting Exhibition, Liu Haisu Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

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

• Chinese Art Exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

• 2nd Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition, Yangzi River Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Mantova Young Museum, Italy
Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, France
Conseil General des Yvelines, France
Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
NUS Museums, Singapore
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Nankai University, Nanjing, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
M+, Hong Kong
Chen Yi Art Foundation, Hong Kong