Yang Wei

Yang Wei was born in November 1984 in Shenyang and graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently based in Beijing. His artistic practice spans across multiple media, including installation, sculpture, sound, and painting. Much of his work is motivated by reflections on real-life situations and historical memory. Beneath the aesthetic surface he constructs lies a subtle poetic sensibility, distilled from personal experience and literature. Through an exploration of material and discourse, Yang Wei builds narrative scenarios that present viewers with a disquieting and illusory reality—serving as a metaphor for the wildness of the world we inhabit and the ultimate fate of the individual.

Awards
2020 — Winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, United Kingdom

Solo Exhibitions (2008–2024)

THE X-GAME, Saisen Art Space, Shanghai

Burn to Ashes, Saisen Art Space, Shanghai

Regarding The Silent Majority, Pékin Fine Arts, Hong Kong

Yang Wei Art Project in Church Space, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing

Got Used to Consume Today's Achievement with Achievement Habitually, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing

Romance in a Humble Moment, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing

Tell Me Haow To Be Sad, Yan Club Arts Center, Beijing

Disorder Symphonic projects in the world, First Live Art Space, Guangzhou  China 

Selected Group Exhibitions (2008–2023)

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, UK

John Moores Painting Prize Residency Program, ERL, John Lennon School of Art and Design Building, Liverpool, UK

Young Curators Season, Palais de Tokyo, France

Gwangju Biennale – 10,000 Lives, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea

FLUX ZONE, BLANK Gallery, Shanghai

BRC Utopia, BRC Space, Beijing

Materiality and Intuition, Jinhua Art Museum, Jinhua

The Infallible Interior: The Third Tour of the Exhibition "Notes for Tomorrow", Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing

John Moores Painting Prize (China), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

John Moores Painting Prize (Touring Exhibition), Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu

Tongxi · The 3rd China Invitational Art Forum & Exhibition on Installation Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing

"Finding Friends" – Discover Young Sculpture Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Keep the Modern Going: Immersion, Awaiting and ldealism, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen

New Works, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen

Likeness of a Thought, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing

MEMO II, White Space, Beijing