ZhangWei, Artist
1977, Born in Shangluo, Shaanxi Province, China
2002, Studied at Beijing Film Academy, Photography School, Beijing, China
Currently lives and works in Beijing and New York
Solo Exhibitions
2021, THEATER OF ILLUSIONS,A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France
2020，ARTIFICIAL THEATER-ACT II, O2art，Beijing
2018，EMPATHY,xian art Museum,Xian new art center,xian,China
2015, ARTIFICIAL THEATER,Art & Public Geneva Switzerland
2015, ARTIFICIAL THEATER,Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
2015, Artificial Theater,Art & Public Cabinet PH, Geneva Switzerland and Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
2014, Artificial Theater, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013, False Image,798photogallery, Beijing, China
2010, Temporary Performers ,6th Lianzhou International Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
DOUBLE SOLO EXHIBITION
2015，"PHOTOGRAPHY,DIFFERENTLY" A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France
2014，"DREAMS AND REALITY" A2Z Art Gallery ， Paris ， France
Group Exhibitions
2024
"Art Icon" Bastille Design Center, Paris
"A2Z FAMILY & FRIENDS" 15 ans d'anniversaire, Paris
"ILLUSIVE MASKS" SEEWELL International Art Center Fuzhou Fujian
"HISTORY, EVERYDAY LIFE, AND IMAGINATION" Chinese Contemporary Photography, Saddleback Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2023
"TALK TO IT"- AI Image Production And Generation, Chengdu Art Museum, Sichuan
"PORTRAITS: The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum", Long Museum West Bund, shanghai
"Lishui Photography Festival 20 Years Retrospective Exhibition", Lishui, Zhejiang
"JINGPHOTO"，Enjoy-art Museum， 798art zone ，beijing
"PHOTOFAIRS SHANGHAI 2023"，SHANGHAI EXHIBITION CENTER, shanghai
"40 YEARS OF CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY" Kulangsu Center for Contemporary Art Xiamen，Fujian
"PRACTICE OF VISION" EPOCH ART MUSEUM Wenzhou Zhejiang
2022
"Eye to Eye with Stano Contemporary Photography Exhibition" Czech China Contemporary,East Art Zone, Songzhuang, Beijing
2021
"Top20.2021 The Tenth Anniversary Academic Review Exhibition" Zhejiang Art Museum Hang Zhou
"The 8th China Photography Annual Ranking" Lishui International Photography Festival LiShui Zhejiang
"Beijing Contemporary Art Expo2021" Beijing National Agricultral Exhibition Center Beijing
"art paris" Paris France
"Art Shenzhen" Shenzhen Guangdong
"Time field space" Hanshan Art Museum Suzhou
"Relay (Volume 3)"Yuan Art Museum Beijing
"How are you? How old are you?" Zhejiang Exhibition Hall
2020
"The 8th Jinan International Photography Biennale" Shandong University of Arts and Crafts Art Museum
"ASIA NOW" Paris, France
"SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2020" ShangHai
"ART SHENZHEN" Shenzhen Convention &Exhibition Center Guang dong
"APERTRUTH"Subhashok The Arts Centre Bangkok, Thailand
"STRATIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS"Xie Zilong Photography Museum Changsha
"A LITTIE CHANCE ENCOUNTER"Long Museum westbank Shanghai
2019
"SUNSET ON A DEAD END THE NOTORIOUS AND THEIR LNEXPLICABLE MODES OF EXISTENCE"Power Station of Art , Shanghai
"2019INTERNATIONAL FIGURATIVE&ABSTRACT(NINGBO)EXHIBITION"Ningbo Cultural Center
"START FROM LISHUI"，Lishui，Zhejiang
"10 ANS DÉJÀ" A2Z，Paris
"2019 GOLDEN PANDA PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS"Chengdu contemporary image museum
"DARKROOM" MOCP Museum of Contemporary photoraphy, Chicago
"ASIA IN ASIA – close by far away drums" Gyeongnam Provincial Museum of Art, Korea
2018
"DECEPTIV BEAUTY" Schneider Gallery, in collaboration with Bokeh Art Gallery Chicago
"Traces of Abandonment" Mstudio Beijing
"THE EXHIBITION OF ANNUAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CHINA2017" MINSHENG ART MUSEUM Beijing
"CHINESE SPRING" Stieglitz19 Antwerp, Belgium
"SNZKE-ARMS" CIPA GALLERY Beijing
"SCREEN REFRESHING/ LABOR" AMNUA Nanjing
2017
"MICROCSMO" Shaanxi Arts Museum Xian
"La mémoire collective" Je fine art Gallery Shanghai
"ACC Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition" Asian Culture Complex（ACC）Gwangju, Korea
"Bàn Jié Mén" Hima Art Space Shanghai
"cross & connect" Opensapce Bae Busan Korea
"Beyond the sphere of reproduction"Hannover municipal museum of art ,Germany
"BREAKING THE BARRIER"Xian Contemporary Art Exhibiton 2017, Xian, China
"pyeongchang biennale gangneung folk art festival 2017" ,Korea.
2016
"Hero" Culture Station Seoul 284 art festival,Korea.
"DAEGU PHOTO BIENNALE 2016" Daegu, Korea.
"Scarcity & Supply" The third nanjing international art exhibition Nanjing
"Global China" East green space center Zhengzhou
"A VISIT TO CLASSIC" Chinese contemporary art BA art center in Shanghai
"Transience Metro: Scape" Shanghai Young Art Fair，Shanghai exhibition center
"Grain to Pixel" Monash gallery, Australia
"Re-Portrait" Songzhuang art museum, Beijing
"The New Portrait" Stieglitz19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
"Art Amsterdam" Museumplein，Holland
"/Odysseia" Opensapce Bae, Busan, Korea
"The Photography Show Presented By AIPAD" Park Avenue Armory, New York ,U.S.A.
"Prudential Eye Awards Contemporary Asian Art" Art Science Museum, Singapore
"Art Stage Singapore"Sands Convention Center ,Singapore
"The covenant of Hamlet"3Distance Gallery, Tianjing, China
2015
"Designing View Beyond The Earth"Xian Art Museum, Xian, China
"Photography,Differently" A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France
"Grain to Pixel" Shanghai Center of Photography , Shanghai
"Copyleft Appropriation Art in China"Power Station of Art , Shanghai
"Imagintion and Reality"amanasalto Shanghai
"Off Course"Art Brussels, Belgium
"Art Busan" Busan, Korea
"Real/Unreal"ChangJiang Museum of Contemporary Art , Chongqing, China
"Bizarreland"Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany
"The Photography Show Presented By AIPAD" Park Avenue Armory, New York ,U.S.A.
"Art Paris Art Fair" Paris, France
"Facebook" ZHI Art Museum, Chengdu, China
"Perception of Reality" Pata Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014
"Individual Originated Politic"AIA Asia Independent Art，JINHAI ART MUSEUM，Busan, Korea
"Staging Encounters-Lianzhou Foto Festival"Liangcang, Lianzhou, China
"Art Mo International Art Fair"Springs Center of Art, Macau, China
"Fotofever2014"Louvre, Paris, France
"Arts Spirits-The Gloomy Side of Civilian Nobles"HONGYO Art Center, Beijing, China
"To Have and To Lose：2014 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls Contemporary Contemporary Art Exhibition"The Chinese Museum of Women and Children, Beijing, China
"Bizarreland"Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Facebook"HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
"Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014"Minsheng Art Museum,Shanghai, China
"An Ordinary Day"A2Z Art Gallery，Paris，France
"Rêve et Réalité " A2Z Art Gallery，Paris，France
"La Forme Du Temps" CHENAUX Gallery, Paris, France
"Pleasures of the Imaginary "BOTTEGA VENETA, Shanghai, China
"09 years since the new photography in China" the Wuhan Museum of Art,Wuhan, China
"Three Shadows Photography Art Centre First Experimental Image Exhibition"Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
"The Photography Show Presented By AIPAD" Park Avenue Armory, New York ,U.S.A.
"ART PARIS ART FAIR"Paris, France
"Art Busan" Busan, Korea
"Young Art Taipei 2014"Taipei, Taiwan,China
"Art Beijing" The Agricultural Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2013
"1ST Beijing Photo Biennial"China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
"The Awakening of Intuition"Pingyao, China
"Color Temperature" Minar Sinan Fine Arts Universit， Istanbul，Turkey
"New Photography of Personal Artistry"GuCang Center of Contemporary Photography, Lanzhou, China
"Diversity"Bloom Gallery, Beijing, China
"Epoche"Dali Inernational Photography Exhibition, Sheet Factory D2 Area, Dali,China
"Enlargement"55 Venice biennial parallel, Venice, Italy
"Art Beijing"The Agricultural Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2012
"Homo Ludens: Spiel, Traum & Trauma"2.Ruhr Biennale，Duisburg，Germany
"Wind Direction "Moscow Museum of Modern Art，Russia
"APPF"Dali Inernational Photography Exhibition, Dali, China
"Openspace Bae Resident Creation Exhibition "Busan, Korea
"China Young Artists Project" Beijing International Conference and Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
2011
" Incubatorn"Li - Space, Beijing, China
"TOP20 · 2011 Chinese Cutting-edge Contemporary Photography Exhibition"Zhejiang Art Museum ,Hangzhou， China
"Beijing New Media Arts Exhibition 2011-Homologous the actual and virtual" SongZhuang Art Center, Beijing, China
"Fiction & Truth" Ming Yuan Art Center, Shanghai, China
"The Documentary Exhibition of Blank and White Realism" Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, Beijing, China
"China International Gallery Exposition" International Trade Center, Beijing,China
2010
"Do Exist In This World? - The Sixth International Photography Exhibition In Lianzhou" LiangCang, Lianzhou, China
"Double Contexts" Shangshang Art Museum, Beijing, China
"The Real False Appearance"Top Red Art, Beijing, China
"Dislocation – Photo Art Exchange Exhibition"Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
"San Bu Kao"Casting Art Museum , Beijing, China
"Little Step Forward: Contemporary Experimental Art Exhibition of Young Chinese Artist"798 Creative Square Metal Base, Beijing, China
"Caochangdi Photospring 2010\Mile in Beijing—Chinese Emerging Artists Photography Exhibition"Caochangdi Red No .1Art Zone, Beijing, China
"2010 Emperimental Video DocumentExhibition"SongZhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Sovereignty of Asian Art Prize 2009"Nomination Exhibition, Hong Kong, China
2009
"Third International Photography Biennale Exhibition Of Guangzhou"Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
"Magic Box—Heaven---Cross Border Creative Exhibition" Taipei, Taiwan, China
"Mix and Share---CC Vedio And New Media Art Exhibition" Ying Gallery Art Center ,798 Art District, Beijing, China
"Li Shui International Photography Festival"Lubricant Pump Factory Exhibition Area, Lishui, China
"International Photography Exhibition Of Pingyao" Cotton Textile Mill F Area, Pingyao, China
2008
"Faces To World Outlook of Materialists-Pingyao International Photography Festival"Cotton Textile Mill A Area, Pingyao, China
"Invisible Youth- Chinese Emerging Artists Exhibition" Watergate Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Photography Map"Tense Space 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
"07 Photo File Exhibition" Tense Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
Residency
Openspace Bae International Artist In Residence Project, Busan, Korea
Award
2024，Lensculture black & white awards 2024 1st Place Series
2024， Exposure One Awards Gold Conceptual US
2021, China Photography Annual Ranking
2020 , "The 8th Jinan International Photography Biennale" Best Photographer Award
2019, Golden Panda Photography Awards
2016, Prudential Eyes of Contemporary Asian Art Award nomination
2014, Xishuangbanna Foto Festival Nomination of the Excellent Photography Works
2013, New Foto Award of China
2013, China Photography Annual Ranking
2012, The Top 20 of China
2010, The Global Times 2010 Artists Award Of The Year
2009, Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2009, Lishui Photography Festival Award
Collections
MOCP Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago
Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum
Chinese Contemporary Art Archives
Guangdong Museum of ArtGuCang Center of Contemporary Photography
Shanghai Center of Photography
Lishui Photography Museum
How Museum
Long Museums
Media reports
The Guardian Le Temps The New York Times WIRED Francetvinfo Spiegel.de Liberation