Peng Wei
 

Peng Wei, born in 1974 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, currently lives and works in Beijing. She holds a master’s degree in philosophy from Nankai University.

 

 

Peng Wei is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting the classical Chinese ink painting tradition by bringing traditional and historical practice into dialogue with contemporary international art practices. Conjuring extraordinary realities by layering personal narratives across time, geography, and tradition, her work interrogates cultural identity, intellectual belonging, and issues of gender and sexuality.

 

Since launching her artistic career with the Stone series in 2000, she has completed numerous series of work including Robe, Good Things come in Pairs, Letters from a Distance, etc., which are executed across artistic mediums, such as painting, installation, video, and photography, grounded on the format and materiality of Chinese ink painting tradition.


 

Collection

The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum, M+ Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the National Art Museum of China, Suzhou Museum, the Guangdong Museum of Art, the He Xiangning Art Museum, the Beijing Fine Art Academy Museum, the Sigg Collection, the DSL Collection,and the Princeton University Art Museum etc.  
 
    
 
Publications
 
2002   Peng Wei’s Painting    China Pictorial Publishing House
2003   Splendor in Ink and Wash   Sichuan People’s Arts Publishing House
2007   Cloud Robe   Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong
2008   Peng Wei   Artside Gallery, Beijing & Seoul
2010   Peng Wei   Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, China
2013   Letters from a Distance   Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, China
2014   Letters from a Distance   Ora-Ora Gallery, Hong kong, China
2017   Letters from a Distance· The Lost Stone   Guangxi  Fine Arts Publishing House
2020   Peng Wei: Feminine Space  TKG fundation, Taiwan, China
 

Solo Exhibitions
 
2021   Migration of Memory – The Poetry and Power of Music，Cleveland Museum of Art ，Cleveland，USA
2020   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, Museum of History, Taipei, China
2014   Letters from a Distance, HK Art Basel，Ora-Ora Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2013   Letters from a Distance – Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, China
2011   Taking Off the Shell – Peng Wei’s Works 2002-2011, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2010   Body & Robe – Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan China
2009   Painting Skin – Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, 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, China
2004   Embroidered – Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, China
           Peng Wei Solo Exhibition, Art Scene China Gallery, Shanghai, China


 
Group Exhibitions
 

2021   Contemporary as Method, Baolong Art museum，Shanghai，China   

           Name,Yuelai Art Museum,Chongqing,China
           Nine -Tiered Pagoda:Spatial and Visual Magic,Pingshan Art Museum,Shenzhen,China
           Encounter of Imagination – Classic of Mountain and Seas,Pearl Art Museum,Shanghai,China
           Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art，Lillehammer Art Museum /Salzburg Art
           Museum,Kongeriket Norge／The Republic of Austria
           All Things In Full Reflection – The Culture And Art Of Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors ，Tsinghua University Art Museum，Beijing，China

2020  The Curation Workshop II,Hua Art Museum,Shenzhen,China
          Chinese Ink Yearbook, An Art Museum, China
          The Consciousness Flows Within, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taizhong, China
           MORE MORE MORE ，Tank Shanghai，Shanghai，China
           Duration ：Chinese art in transfor mation， Beijing  Minsheng Art Museum，Beijing，China
           When Speed Become Form—Live In Your Screen，Wind H Art Center ，Beijing，China
           Art of post traditional era，Chengdu International Art Exhibition Center，Chengdu，China
           The Revival of Tradtion  Another Approach to Contemporary Chinese Art，Song Art Museum，Beijing，China
           New Art In the Integration of Civilizations ，Suzhou Mingcheng Art Museum ，Suzhou，China   

2019   Anticipation，Ora-Ora Gallery, Hong Kong, China
           The 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
           Creation (The First Exhibition), Wuhan Art Museum, Hubei, China
           Brilliant Portrayals of Beijing Spanning 70 Years Selected Painting Works, National Art Museum of China
           PAL(ATE)/ETTE/, Three on the Bund SGA, 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, The Chicago Center in Beijing, Beijing, China

2018   Half of the Sky - Female Artists Works Exhibition, German Ambassador's residence, Beijing, China
           Eye-catching and Mind-opening Contemporary Landscape Ink Painting Exhibition, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
           On Paper 2, White Space, Beijing, China
           The Poetry of Brush Art, JOYCE, Hong Kong, China
           2018 Art Weihai, Weihai Art Museum, Shandong, China
           Dangerous Liaisons Revisited, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
           Beyond Ink, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
           The 5th Chinese Painting Biennale of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
           New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China          

2017   Memory and Contemporary, Venetian Arsenal, Venice, Italy
          “The Weigh of Lightless” Ink Art at M＋,  M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China

2016   Utopias / Heterotopia – Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, North Silk Factory, Wuzhen, China
           Chinese Whispers – Exhibition of Uli Sigg’s Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Palu Klee,  Switzerland

2015   Ink Remix: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan & Hong Kong, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, Australia
           Copyleft: China Appropriation Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

           A New Dynasty - Created In China, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
           Two Generations – Peng Xiancheng & Peng Wei, Sotheby's Gallery, Hong Kong, China
 
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
 
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
           Break Through – Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA
 
2012   A Ten-Year Retrospective: Contemporary Ink Painting from 2000 to 2010, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
           Passing Through Memory: Opening Exhibition, Suzhou Jin Ji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
           Water Stains on the Wall: the Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
 
2011   Shan Shui – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition(Sigg Collection), Luzern Art Museum, Luzern, Switzerland
           Pure View – 2011 Chengdu Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition, Music Park, Chengdu, China
 
2010   The 7th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
           Reshaping History: China Art from 2000 to 2009, National Convention Center, Beijing, China
 
2009   Europalia International Arts Festival: Attitudes – Female Art in China, The European Centre of Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
           Four Square – Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
 
2008   New Scene – The Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, National Museum, Berlin; National Art Collection Museum, Dresden, Germany
           Ink Not the Ink – The Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA
 
2007   The Splendid Age – The 50th Anniversary of Founding Beijing Painting Academy and Shanghai Institute of Chinese Paintings, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
 
2006   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, Denmark
           Century and Heaven – 2005 Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China
           The Second Beijing International Art Biennial, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
 

2004   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
 
2003   The 1st Beijing International Art Biennial, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
           Liu Jianhua and Peng Wei Joint Exhibition, Plum Blossoms New York, Hong Kong, China