Exhibition
Wei Jia Strenuous Journey II
MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen
2022.7.10-8.28
Biography
Wei Jia was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1975. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1999. Now based in Chongqing, Wei teaches at the Department of Printmaking at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. During his studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wei was awarded several significant honors in the field of printmaking. Between 2003 and 2004, the artist began working with acrylic paint, incorporating into his paintings compositions often found in printmaking pieces. As one of China’s ‘post-70s’ contemporary painters, Wei instilled narratives of youthful and unruly sensitivities in his early works. Since 2010, he began expanding his interest in human nature, focusing on themes of singularity and universality by investigating the relations between the individual and the collective. Wei’s work depicts the fundamental qualities of life. Preexisting contours disintegrate under his dynamic strokes that dance between the figurative and the abstract, reflecting the everchanging, everlasting, and kaleidoscopic forms of life experienced in contemporary realities.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2022
Strenuous Journey II, Michael Ku Gallery/MANGROVEGALLERY , Taipei/Shenzhen Strenuous Journey I, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei
2017
On The Forest Trail, Star Gallery, Beijing Sudden Brilliance, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei
2015
WEI JIA: MILDLY BITING, ENCOUNTERING SPRING, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
2012
PORTRAIT – Wei Jia solo exhibition, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei
2011
Dim Light on the Opposite Shore: Wei Jia Solo Exhibition, Star Gallery, Beijing
2009
In the Distant Fields and Smoky Woods, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Doors
to an Alternative World-Wei Jia’s Recent Works, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Germany
2008
Wei Jia 2004-2008, Star Gallery, Beijing
Illuminating the Endless Night, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei
An Uncivilized Spring, Star Gallery, Beijing2006
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2022
Colourful – The Art of Chinese Colour Printing During Four Centuries, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
2021
Redefining Ink-Wash Painting: Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Yuelai Art Museum, Chongqing
2020
Painting: Macro, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong
2019
Singing the Body Electric,David Zwirner, Hong Kong
2018
Michael Ku Gallery 10th Anniversary, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei
2017
Reading the Raindrops-Western Artists Documenta, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan
2015
In Memory of a Landscape II: Lu Song, Wei Jia and Xie Fan, James Cohan
Gallery, Shanghai
Within Sight–Chinese New Painting at Post Financial Crisis Era, Taylor Foundation, Paris
Landscape of Man, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei 2012 Landscape of Man, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei 2011 “From scenes to scenes of culture” After seventies artist research, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan 2010 Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 2009 CHINA MANIA, Arken Museum Of Modern Art Danish, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008 Looking for Me, Minsheng Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai 2007 Taking off From The West – Contemporary Art of China’s Southwest, 2006 Variant Pictures, China Contemporary Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai 2005 Scapes: the ‘Century’ and ‘Paradise’ – The Second Chengdu Biennial, Century City, Chengdu 2004 Ideal of A New Generation – the Chinese New Generation, Gallery of Central 2003 Eighth Copperplate, Stoneplate, Silk Plate Print Painting Exhibition, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing 2002 The Space Group, the 12th Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea 2001 7th National Exhibition of Etching, Lithography and Silkscreen, Wuhan 2000 V Triennale Mondiale d’Estampes Petit Format in Chamalieres, France2014
The Immortal Scenery, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Water stains on the wall- The carrier of formation, Zhejiang Art Museum, Zhejiang Shedding –new art from china, Zhong Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Franks-Suss Collection, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Trans-Realism: Contemporary Art from China, Christie’s Rockefeller Plaza, Now York, USA
Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
New Interface–Serching the future, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
China new painting, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Energy – Spirit, Body, Material Today Documentary Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Fushan International Print Paitinging Invitational Exhibition, Fushan, Korea
Academy of Fine Arts/He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
11th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
fifteenth National Print Painting Exhibition, Guangzhou
Awards
2010
BMW CHINA 2009 Art Power “Most Improved Artist”
2008
AAC2007 The Most Influential Participants of Chinese Art
2003
Gold Award and “Liao Xiuping Pring Painting Fund Award” by the EighthCopperplate、Stoneplate、Silk Plate Print Painting Exhibition
Gold Award by the First Beijing International Print Painting Biennial Exhibition
2001
Gold Award and “Liao Xiuping Pring Painting Fund Award” by the SeventhCopperplate、Stoneplate、Silk Plate Print Painting Exhibition
Collections (selection)
龙美术馆，上海
何炬星收藏，上海
民生美术馆，北京/上海
白兔美术馆，澳洲
Suherman Collection，雅加达
中国美术馆，北京
深圳美术馆，深圳
四川美术馆，成都
中央美术学院，北京
日本东京艺术大学，东京
乔志彬收藏，上海
166 Art Space，上海
国美艺术基金，北京
DSL collection，巴黎
James Wang Collection，台北
银川美术馆，银川
关山月美术馆，深圳
重庆美术馆，重庆
四川美术学院，重庆
安特卫普皇家艺术学院，比利时
Exhibitions