BIOGRAPHY
1974 Born in Chengdu, China
1997 BFA, Oriental Culture and Art Department, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
2000 MFA, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Present Lives and works in Beijing, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024-2025
Seven Days, 9th Art Changsha, Changsha Art Museum, Hunan, China
2023
Rooms and Stories, ZiWU the Bund, Shanghai, China
A Room with a Story, Nanchizi Art Museum, Beijing, China
2020
Feminine Space, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2017
I Thought of You, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
2015
Coming Full Circle, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
2014
Letters From a Distance, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2011
Take Off the Shell: Peng Wei Works 2002–2011, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2009
Peng Wei’s Painting Installation Exhibition, Opposite House, Beijing, China
Don’t Forget Me, Yintai Center, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Tradition Transformed, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2024
Staging Dunhuang, Dunhuang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Spirit Matters: Traditional Culture in Chinese Contemporary Art, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Ink Subversion: Through Gender Lenses, AVA Gallery at HKBU Kai Tak Campus, Hong Kong
2023
The Sleepless Theatre, Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall, Shanghai, China
Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions, Asia Society Texas, Houston, USA
2022
Stepping Out!, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, Norway; Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2021
Encounter of Imagination: Dialogue Between the Divine Comedy and Classic of Mountains and Seas, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
The Poetry and Power of Music, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
2020
The Consciousness Flows Within, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2019
2nd Biennale Exhibition of Chinese Painting in Wuhan: New Trend of Chinese Ink Painting Creation, Wuhan Art Museum, Hubei, China
Brilliant Portrayals of Beijing Spanning 70 Years Selected Painting Works, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Painted Screen, University of Chicago-Beijing Centre, Beijing, China
2018
5th Chinese Painting Biennale of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
New Ink Art in China 1978–2018, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Joyce Fall-Winter 2018 with Peng Wei and the Poetry of Brush Art, Joyce New World Tower, Hong Kong
Beyond Ink, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Art Weihai: Interval: Contemporary Ink Exhibition, Weihai Art Museum, Shandong, China
Eye-catching and Mind-Opening Contemporary Landscape Ink Painting Exhibition, Guardian Art Centre, Beijing, China
Dangerous Liaisons Revisited, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Half of the Sky: Four Artists From China, German Embassy Beijing, Beijing, China
2018,19
Jing Art, Beijing Bazaar, Beijing, China
2017
The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong
Memory and Contemporaneity, China Art Today: Collateral event at the 57th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Boundless: Ongoing Chinese Ink Art 2017, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Volta 13, Basel, Switzerland
2016
Bagism: We Are All in the Same Bag!, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
From the Peony Pavilion: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Being and Inking: Documenting Contemporary Ink Art (2001–2016), Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Utopias/Heterotopia: Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, North Silk Factory, Zhejiang, 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 Palu Klee, Switzerland
2016,2017,2018,2019
Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2015
Ink Remix: Contemporary Art From China, Taiwan & Hong Kong, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia
Copyleft: China Appropriation Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
A New Dynasty: Created in China, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
2014
APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
West Says East Says: Chinese Contemporary Art Research, He Art Museum, Hubei, China; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series 2, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Chinese Contemporary Youth Ink Yearbook Exhibition, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China; Melbourne Art Museum, Australia
Shuimo/Water Ink: Enchanted Landscapes, S2 Gallery, New York, USA
Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2014,18,19
Art021, Shanghai Exhibition Centre Shanghai, China
2013
Real Life Stories: The Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway
8th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
9th National Exhibition of Chinese Paintings, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Break Through: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA
Shuimo˙Water Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, Sotheby's New York, New York, USA
2012
A Ten-Year Retrospective: Contemporary Ink Painting from 2000 to 2010, Suzhou Jin Ji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
On The Top of Fashion: 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
2011-2012
China International Gallery Exposition, China World Trade Centre, Beijing, China
2011
Shan Shui: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Luzern Art Museum, Luzern, Switzerland
Reflection: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Edgar Frei Private Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
Pure View: Chengdu Biennale, Music Park, Chengdu, China
7th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Reshaping History: China Art From 2000 to 2010, China National Convention Centre, Beijing, China
2011,12, 14,15 Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
2009
Europalia International Arts Festival: Attitudes, Female Art in China, European Centre of Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
Four Square: Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009,13,14
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2008
New Scene: Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, National Museum, Berlin; National Art Collection Museum, Dresden, Germany
Hypallage: Post-Modern Mode of Chinese of Contemporary Art, Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Ink Not the Ink: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2nd National Young Artists Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Water and Colour Contemporary Ink Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2007
The Splendid Age: 50th Anniversary of Beijing Painting Academy & Shanghai Institute of Chinese Paintings, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2006
Purity and Innocence: Three Chinese Women Artists Exhibition, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, USA
2005
Temperature: International Celebration of Andersen's 200th Anniversary, Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China; Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
Century and Heaven: Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, 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 Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Malaysia National Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The New Fettle: Peng Wei & Lin Lan Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
10th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The New Freehand Water and Ink Invitational Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The New Freehand Water and Ink Paintings of Six Artists, Yisu Gallery, Singapore
Transformation & Depuration: Chinese Paintings by Artists 1970s, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2003,05
Beijing International Art Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2nd National Chinese Painting Exhibition, China National Museum, Beijing; Xinghai Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dalian, China
The National Exhibition of Flowers and Birds Painting, Lanzhou, China
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Beijing Fine Art Academy Museum, Beijing, China
Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
M+, Hong Kong
Sigg Collection, Switzerland
DSL Collection, France
