Wei Qingji (born 1971) is a leading member of China’s experimental ink painting movement. Utilizing his profound knowledge of traditional techniques, the artist incorporates corporate logos, along with 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.
1971
Born in Tsingtao, Shandong province, China
1995
Graduated from Oriental Art Department, Nankai University Bachelor of Arts
2003
Graduated from, Mural Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Postgraduate
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Speciosity-Wei Qingji’s New Paintings, Embassy of Czech Republic, Beijing
2009
Fiction II-Wei Qingji works, Gaodi Gallery, Beijing
2008
Wei Qingji Ink-Paintings, Gallery 99, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Fiction-Wei Qingji works 2005-2007, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2006
Thing-Form 2005-2006, Marseille III University, France
The Property of Memory, Gaodi Gallery, Beijing
Plotless Narrations, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1993
2nd Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition, Yangzi River Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Public collections
Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, France
Mantova Young Museum, Italy
Conseil Général des Yvelines, France
Zeit-Foto Salon, Japan
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
NUS Museum, Singapore
Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Wuhan Museum of Art
Nanjing University, China
Nankai University, China
Guangdong Art Institute, China
Publications
Chinese Contemporary Artist-Wei Qingji, Hunan Fine Art Publishing House, 2011
Wei Qingji, Timezone 8 Ltd, 2009
Wei Qingji, Timezone 8 Ltd, 2006
Chinese Art Today Series – Wei Qingji, International Culture Publishing Ltd, 2002
History of Black and White – Wei Qingji, Hubei Fine Art Publishing House, 1999
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2004 Fu Baoshi Prize, Jiangsu Provincial Government, China
2006 Asian Culture Council Award, U.S.A
2009 1stChongqing Biennial for Young Artists Award, China
