Peng Wei
Born in 1974 , currently based in Beijing
MA and BA ,Nankai University
Collection
Peng Wei’s work has been collected by the Princeton University Art Museum ,the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum, the M+ Museum, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the National Art Museum of China, the Suzhou Museum,the Guangdong Museum of Art, the He Xiangning Art Museum, the Art Museum of the Beijing Fine Art Academy , the Sigg Collection, the DSL Collection etc.
Publications
2025 This is Her，Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House
2020 Peng Wei :Feminine Space , TKG Foundation for Arts & Culture
2017 Letters from a Distance· The Lost Stone Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House
2015 Coming Full Circle The National Museum of Art，Taipei，China
2014 Letters from a Distance Ora-Ora Gallery
2013 Letters from a Distance Tina Keng Gallery
2010 Peng Wei Tina Keng Gallery
2008 Peng Wei Artside Gallery
2007 Cloud Robe Plum Blossoms Gallery
2003 Splendor in Ink and Wash Sichuan People’s Arts Publishing House
2002 Peng Wei’s Painting China Pictorial Publishing House
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Seven Days,Museum of Art Changsha ，Changsha，China
Memory Palace，Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, China
2023 A Room with A Story, Nan Chizi Art Museum, Beijing, China
Rooms and Stories，ZiWU，Shanghai，China
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
Peng Wei ：Feminine Space, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, 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,National Museum of History , Taipei, China
2014 Letters from a Distance, ——PengWei Solo Exhibition ，Ora-Ora Gallery, HK Art Basel，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, 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 Clouds Robe – 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
2026 Pulse of Life·Chengdu Biennale,Chengdu Art Museum,Chengdu,China
2025 Coexistence:The 10th Beijing International Art Biennale China,Beijing Exhibition Center,Beijing,China
In Between:The Mutual Gazing of Bamboo and Garden, National Art Museum of China,Beijing,China
Rong Bao Zhai and Aritists-What is ShanShui,Rong Bao Zhai Guangzhou, Guangzhou ,China
Tradition Transformed, Alison Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
The Painter’s Muse, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, China
Whisper of Peaks and Streams-A Grand View of Anhui’s Culture and Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Somewhere Over the Yellow Sea：2025 Jeonnam International Ink Biennale, Gosan Yun Seon-do Museum, Land’s End Pilgrimage Literature Center, Sojeon Museum of Art, Namdo Traditional Art Museum, Mokpo Culture & Arts Center, and Mokpo Indoor Gymnasium, Korea
Walking Their Own Paths: Women Calligraphers in Contemporary Taiwan, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taipei, China
2024 Amazing Women-A Tribute Exhibition to Outstanding Female Artists by Forbes China, Phoenix Center,Beijing, China
Arts, Civilizations : Echoes of Camel Bells–Along The Silk Roads, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Shanshui Reboot: Re-envisioning Landscape for Our Twenty-first Century, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
Ink Subversion：Through Gender Lenses，Hongkong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
Painting With Ink–Contemporary Logic of A Pure and Remote View：The 8th Contemporary Ink Art Research Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum，Wuhan，China
Chinese Morphological Expressionism– The Fourth China Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Cuizhenkuan Art Museum, Xian, China
Spirit Matters: Traditional Culture in Chinese Contemporary Art, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Oriental Wisdom – Contemporary Art Themed on Chinese Traditional Culture, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Breakout ,Art Site At Xi’an Laochenggen G Part, Xian, China
Song of Soul, Soul Art Center, Beijing, China
Staging Dunhuang, Dunhuang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai,China
The Age of Human Wisdom – The 3rd Jinan International Biennale, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China
2023 Summoning Memories – Beyond Chinese Traditions, Asian Art Center, Houston, USA
Harmonious Symbiosis – The 3rd China Xinjiang International Art Biennial, XinJiang Art MUseum，Urumqi, China
Semoe Femina ，Ora-Ora Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Time Gravity–2023 Chengdu Biennale , Chengdu Art Museum , Chengdu , China
All Things Created by Fade，After Art Center，Guangdong，China
Oriental Wisdom – Contemporary Art Themed on Chinese Traditional Culture, Zhejiang Art Museum, Zhejiang ,China
Urban Village Tangram – 9th Bi – City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture , Nantou City, Shenzhen ,China
The Sleepless Theatre, Shanghai Wu Changshuo Memorial hall, Shanghai ,China
Synthetic Ecology-2023 Chengdu International Photo Festival,Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu,China
2022 Stepping Out! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art，Lillehammer Art Museum / Kunstforeningen GL Strand/SalzburgArt Museum, Kongeriket Norge / Austria
The Scenery Painting with Ink (The 7th Contemporary Ink Art Research Exhibition) , Wuhan Art Museum, Hubei, China
Communication Through Art – 2022 Wuhan Biennale , Wuhan Art Museum , Hubei, China
The Art of Life – Contemporary Art by Female Artists,Shandong Art Museum, Shandong ,China
Rhythm and Refrain,Song Art Museum , Beijing,China
Un dialogue avec la sensibilite – Ecriture , Desir , Amour, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Supersensitive or Extra – Senseory Perception ,Feeling the Art Practice of Hers, Yiguan Art Museum, Jiangsu, China
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
All Things In Full Reflection – The Culture And Art Of Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors ，Tsinghua University Art Museum，Beijing，China
M+ Sigg Collection ：From Revolution to Globalization，M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
2020 The Curation Workshop II, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Chinese Ink Yearbook, An Art Museum, Beijing，China
The Consciousness Flows Within, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taizhong, China
MORE MORE MORE ，Tank Shanghai，Shanghai，China
Duration ：Chinese art in Transformation， 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 Tradition 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
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
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
2018 Art Weihai, Weihai Art Museum, Shandong, China
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
Dangerous Liaisons Revisited, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
2017 Memory and Contemporary—Parallel Exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy，Italian Arsenal, Venice, Italy
The Weight of Lightness Ink Art , M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China
2016 Utopias/ Heterotopias – Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, North Silk Factory, Wuzhen, China
137 km: Nomination Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Water Ink Painting in Beijing and Tianjin, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China
Chinese Whispers – Exhibition of Uli Sigg’s Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul 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 Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
West Says East Says – Chinese Contemporary Art Research, United Art Museum,Wuhan, China; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen，Germany
Variation Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series 2, 798 Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Youth Ink Yearbook Exhibition, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China; Melbourne Art Museum, Melbourne, Australia
Shuimo/Water Ink: Enchanted Landscapes, S2 Gallery, New York, USA
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 Paintings from 2000 to 2010, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Passing Through Memory: Opening Exhibition, Suzhou Jin Ji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Sketching the Heart: About Scenery, Gallery Beijing Space, Beijing, China
On the Top of Fashion: The 1st Female Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yue Art Museum, Beijing, China
Phoenix Symphony: Female Contemporary Arts, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China
Water Stains on the Wall: the Carrier of Formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Silence Power – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Dialogue Space Gallery, Beijing, China
2011 TINA KENG GALLERY BEIJING, Tina Keng Gallery, Beijing, China
Shan Shui – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Luzern Art Museum, Luzern, Switzerland
Reflection – Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Edgar Frei Private Gallery, Bern, 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
Revolution II, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, 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 Hidden Life Apartment Diary Exhibition,Tina Keng Gallery, Beijing, China
New Scene – The Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, National Museum, Berlin; National Art Collection Museum, Dresden, Germany
Hypallage – The Postmodern Mode of Chinese of Contemporary Art, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Ink Not the Ink – The Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA
The Second National Young Artists' Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Water and Color Contemporary Ink Art Show, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
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
Landscape:Century and Heaven – 2005 Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Centure City New International Convention and Exhibition Center, Chengdu, China
The Second Beijing International Art Biennial, National Art Museum of China , Beijing, China
Dress Up in Art – Chinese Opera Art Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2004 Dot, Radiation and Far-Reaching – Vision Expression from Paper and Ink, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China; Malaysia National Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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
The New Freehand Water and Ink Invitational Exhibition, China Art Museum, Beijing, China
The New Freehand Water and Ink Paintings of Six Artists, Yisu Gallery, Singapore
2003 Transformation & Depuration – Chinese Paintings by Artists Born in 1970s, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
The 1st Beijing International Art Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Liu Jianhua and Peng Wei Joint Exhibition, Plum Blossoms Gallery, NewYork, USA
The 2nd National Chinese Painting Exhibition, China National Museum, Beijing; Xinghai Convention and Exhibition Center, Dalian, China
The National Exhibition of Flower – Bird Painting, Lanzhou, China
