Wei Dong
Born 1968 in Inner Mongolia, China. Lives and works in Beijing and New York.
EDUCATION
1991
B.F.A., Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
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
2008
Perfumed Paradise, Pao Galleries at Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Wei Dong: East-West, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2007
Wei Dong: Springtime, Stux Gallery, New York
2006
Wei Dong, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2005
Wei Dong, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, Beijing
2004
Wei Dong, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
2003
Wei Dong, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London
2002
Deja Vu - Recent Works by 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
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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
Out of The Blue, Stux Gallery, New York
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
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
2013
Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
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
Contemporary Chinese Ink on Paper, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
2010
Tradition and Transition: Recent Chinese Art from the Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Eli Klein Fine Art Winter Show 2010, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York
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
On Love? On War?: Prominent Contemporary Chinese Artists, Stux Gallery, New York
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
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
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
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
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
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Trammell Crow Museum, Dallas, Texas
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco de Young, San Francisco, California
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal
Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
The Miniature Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Rita and Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland
Fu Ruide Collection, Holland
Franks-Suss Collection, London, New York, and Hong Kong
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado