WEI Dong

魏東

works in Beijing and New York (b. 1968, Inner Mongolia)

Born in Inner Mongolia in 1968, Wei Dong graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Beijing’s Capital Normal University, and received the Best Graduate Award in 1991. Wei Dong received numerous awards and grants including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Grant in 2005 and the New Jersey Art Council Art Grant in 2004. Wei Dong’s paintings are in the collections of The Olenska Foundation, the Dr. Uli Sigg Collection, the Monique and Max Burger Collection, The Estella Collection, The Trammell Crow Museum, The Denver Art Museum, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Fukuoka Art Museum, the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, the Oriental Foundation in Portugal, the Modern Chinese Art Foundation in Belgium and the Canvas Foundation in the Netherlands. Wei Dong currently lives and works in New York and Beijing.

1968	Born in Inner Mongolia, China
1991	B.F.A., Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
Now	Lives and works in Beijing and New York

Selected Solo Exhibition

2023	Wei Dong: Night Shining White, Soul Art Center, Beijing, China
2019	Wei Dong: The Crossroads, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2018	Crossroads: Works by Wei Dong, Feefan’s Art, Beijing
2016	Observer, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, USA
2015	The Adventure of Ugliness: Wei Dong 1993-2015, Today Art Museum, Beijing
	Crossroads: Wei Dong, Sotheby’s S\|2 Gallery, Hong Kong
2014	Wei Dong: Paintings & Works on Paper, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen, Germany
2012	A Nowhere Body: New Paintings by Wei Dong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2009	Game with a Fish, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, USA
2008	Game with a Fish, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, USA
	Wei Dong: East-West, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2007	Wei Dong: Springtime, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2006	Wei Dong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2005	Wei Dong, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, Beijing
2004	Wei Dong, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003	Wei Dong, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
2002	Déjà – Vu: Wei Dong, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong and New York
2000	Paintings by Wei Dong, Orient Foundation, Macao
1999	Wei Dong: River of Time, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
1998	Wei Dong – The Age of Innocence, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong and Singapore
1995	Wei Dong – Ancient Stage and Modern Players, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong and Singapore

Selected Joint Exhibition

2021	Ink City, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
	Cai Jin in Hanart’s Botanical Garden, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2020	A Botanical Garden at Hanart, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2018	New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
2018	Out of The Blue, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2015	The Garden of Forking Paths – Tracks and Intersections of 15 Artists, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
	VIEWER DISCRETION… CHILDREN OF BATAILLE, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2014	New Tale of Gongbi Painting: 2014 Invitational Exhibition of New Gongbi Painting, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
	Reform Art-System by Ancient Examples: Contemporary Elaborate-Style Painting Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
	Variation: Contemporary Chinese Ink Art Series II, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
	BURNING BRIGHT: TIGER, TIGER, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2013	Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
	Six People Contemporary Gongbi Ink Painting Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2012	The 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times – Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
	The Adventure of the Three Weary Loafers: Lu Peng, Wei Dong, Liang Changsheng, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2011	Scenes from Within: Contemporary Art from China, Blackbridge Hall Gallery, Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
	Contemporary Chinese Ink on Paper, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
2010	Tradition and Transition: Recent Chinese Art from the Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
	At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
	Eli Klein Fine Art Winter Show 2010, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
	Restoration – Contemporary Collotype Print Exhibition, New Millennium Gallery, Beijing
2009	Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009, National Academy Museum and School, New York, USA
	On Love? On War?: Prominent Contemporary Chinese Artists, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
	Landscape, Michael Goedhuis Contemporary Gallery, New York
2008	Facing China: Works from the Fu Ruide Collection, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland; Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria; Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tonsberg, Norway; Kuopio Art Museum, Kupio, Finland; Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland; Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden
	The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection: A Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco de Young, San Francisco, California, USA
	Contemporary Print Exhibition, A-Space Art Center, Beijing
2007	Made in China – Works from the Estella Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
	Remixed & Revisited: New Visions on China, Arndt & Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006	Chinese Relativity, Stux Gallery, New York
	Chinese Relativity: Part 2 – A selection of Contemporary Chinese Painting and Photography, Stux Gallery, New York
	Six Degrees of Separation, Stux Gallery, New York
2005	New Jersey State Council on the Arts 2003 and 2004 Fellowship Exhibition, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
	Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
	Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
2004	Young Artists from Korea, China, and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
	Jersey New, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
	Democracy Forever: Chinese Artists Perceptions of Global Politics, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York
	Corporate Corporeality: Chinese Artists Re-examining the Body in the Age of Global Capitalism, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York
2003	Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
2002	Paris-Pekin Exhibition, Espace Cardin, Paris
2000	The Art of the Twentieth Century, The Seventh Regiment Armory, New York
1999	Innovation from China, Kunsthal Gent, Gent, Belgium
	La Biennale d’Issy, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
1998	Three Weary Travel Loafers, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
	Reckoning with the Past: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Otago Museum, Dunedin; Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill, New Zealand
	4696/1998: Contemporary Artists from China, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
	Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Art of the 1990s, Galleria Otso, Espoo, Finland
1997	Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Art of the 1990s, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
	Reckoning with the Past: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal
1996	Reckoning with the Past: Contemporary Chinese Painting, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995	Contemporary Art from Beijing and Shanghai, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
1994	Three Travel Weary Vagabonds, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
	The Eighth National Exhibition of Fine Arts, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1992	Beijing 1991, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
	The Yellow River, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
	National Art 1990s, Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing
	The First National Traditional Painting Exhibition, Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing
1989	Here We Come, Gallery of the Capital Normal University, Beijing