Wei Qingji

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Born in Qingdao in 1971, Wei Qingji is a leading member of China's experimental ink painting movement. He fuses his knowledge of traditional techniques with corporate iconography. The artist employs elements from graffiti, Pop art, and erotica to explore the confrontation between contemporary China's appetite for western materialism, and its commitment to its own rich cultural past.

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In 1995, Wei graduated from the Department of Oriental Art, Nankai University with a Bachelor's degree in Chinese painting. In 2003 he graduated from the Mural Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and in 2008, the artist graduated from Wuhan University of Technology with a master's degree. Since 1995, he has been an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of South China Normal University in Guangzhou. Besides multiple group exhibitions, Wei’s works were curated in his solo shows, Wei Qingji Ink Paintings, Gallery 99, Aschaffenburg, Germany, Fiction – Wei Qingji 2005 - 2007, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, Thing - Form 2005 - 2006, Marseille III University, France, Property of Memory, High Land Gallery, Beijing, and Plotless Narrations, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong.

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Group Exhibition:

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1993

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

 

1999

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

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

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

 

2000

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

On the Periphery of Ink and Wash, Museum of Site, Hong Kong, China

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

 

2001

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

Reshuffling Cards, Shenzhen Sculpture Institute, Shenzhen, China

Dusseldorf International Exhibition of Arts, Dusseldorf Exhibition Center, Germany

Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Mantova Young Museum, Italy

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

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

 

2002

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

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

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

A New Era of Ink and Wash, Father of the Republic Memorial Hall/Guan Xiang Art Center, Taiwan, China

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 Jingyi Art Gallery, Foshan, China

 

2003

Impression China, Impression Gallery, Paris, France

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

Uncertainty, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China

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

Made in China, Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, France

Chinese Art Today, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China

Illusion, Museum63, Hang Kang: Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2004

Dot, Proliferation and Penetration, National Art Gallery, Malaysia

Open Attitude, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

19th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Museum of Asia Art, Japan

Democracy Forever, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, USA

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

 

2005

Blossoming, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, China

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exhibition of Jinling Ink and Wash Media, Gallery of Jiangsu Chinese Painting Institute

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

Opening Exhibition of TS1 Contemporary Art Center, TS1 Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

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

 

2006

Swaying “Boundary”, National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

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

A Question of Perspective: Exhibition of Works by Asian Culture Council Fellows 2006, Lee Gardens, Hong Kong, China

Shuimo Today, East Region International Modern Art Center, Beijing, China

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

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

Meditation and Narration, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China

International Modern Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Asian Cultural Center, New York, USA

Shanghai New Ink Painting Exhibition, Zhu 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

 

2007

The supplemental History-Contemporary Art Works from Collection of GDMoA, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Succession, Deduce, Soak, Ueno Town Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Neither Orient nor West, K Gallery, Chengdu, China

Echoes & Reflections, China Square Art Space, New York, U.S.A
Message from Tsingtao, TS1 Gallery, Beijing, China

The Open Ink Painting, Guan Shanyue Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China

China Version, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

 

2008

The Transforming Marks of Ink, National Museum in Berlin, Germany

Ink, Not Ink, Shenzhen Art Museum, /Today Art Museum, Beijing

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

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

Sunshine International Art Annual Exhibition, Sunshine Art Museum, Beijing, China

Appreciation/Pure Mind, Da-Xiang Art Space/Art Center of Jingyi University, Taiwan

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

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

3 Artist @798, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China Guangzhou Station-Guangdong Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art

The Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection – Select Drawings，Culture Services of the French Embassy, New York, U.S.A

Attribute of Image, Huihao Art Space, Guangzhou, China

 

2009

Open Vision -A Selection of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum, Czechoslovakia

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

International Center, Washington, DC，U.S.A

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

1stChongqing Biennial for Young Artists, Chongqing Exhibition Center, China

New Image-Chinese Contemporary Ink-and-Wash, National Museum of History and Culture, Belarus / Historical Museum of Serbia

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

Ink, Not Ink, Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A /Museum of Warsaw Royal Castle, Poland / Romania Museum of Modern Art, Romania

Regroup, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

 

2010

Dragon -from Museum Collections and Sigg Collcetions, Sankturbanhof Sursee, Switzerland

New Image-Chinese Contemporary Ink-and-Wash, Mingyuan Art Center, Shanghai, China

Trace and Qualitative leap, Beijing Film Academy

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

Back and Forth, Shanghai Pudong Airport, China

Ink, Not Ink, Sculpture Museum of Science and Art Academy, Croatia

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2011

Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing

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

Ink Art, A world Without Rules, !28 Art Space, Shanghai,China

Selected Asian Cultural Council Fellows: Then and Now, Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong/Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong

9th A-One,Nan Art Museum,Guangzhou,China

Ink Agreement-China Contemporary Ink Painting Experiments, Shanshang Art Space, Shantou, China

Conceptual Ink, Feizi Gallery, Shanghai, China

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2012

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

Re-ink, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

Re-coding -2012 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China

Ink · New Art, The European headquarters of the United Nations, Geneva/ Swiss Art Exhibition Center, Basel, Swiss

Beyond Representation – An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong

Ink：The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, England

Small Paintings, Dade Tang Art Space, Shanghai, China

Research Exhibition on “Post -70s Generation”: Rejoice in Distinctive Creation, Wuhan Museum of Art, China

2012 International Ink Painting Exhibition, National Dr. Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Hall, Taiwan

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

2012 Shanghai New Ink Painting Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

Ink-Limit, Huafu Art Space, Shanghai, China

100 Years of Chinese Ink Painting, Louvre, Pairs, France