Zhi Wei was born in 1997 in Beijing, China. They currently live and work in Shanghai. They completed their BFA degree from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, in 2019. Fascinated by the serendipity of meanings fermented in the auteur’s careful assemblage of heterogeneous elements, they draw inspiration from fragments of mundanity, popular comedy, fable, history, and scientific trivia. Working with lived experience and external references through digital imageries and unconventional materials, Zhi Wei explores the entangled interdependence among the image-making, the act of painting, and the surface, and toes the line between object and image, concealment and exposure, materiality and phantasy, through which the tension between superficiality and sincerity is interrogated on both formal and emotional levels.

Zhi Wei’s recent exhibitions include: A Small Lie, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France(2024); El Otro, El Mismo, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China(2024); Supercrowds/supercommunity, TANK Q, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China(2024); Rayon Jouets, Hangar Y, Meudon, Paris, France(2024); Palai Penang, Homestead, George Town, Penang, Malaysia(2024); Palai Project, Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, Lecce, Italy(2023); White Holes, 798 CUBE, Beijing, China(2023); Exposition N°120 (maybe), Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France(2022); The Tale of Tales, G Museum, Nanjing, China(2022); TAG New Contemporary: Sailing, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China(2022); Order Copied: Changing the Reference Frame, Magician Space, Beijing, China(2022); Watching the Fire from the Shore, Linseed Projects, Shanghai, China(2021); A Couple of: the Dual Machanism of the New Generation of Asian Artists, Hive Center forContemporary Art, Beijing, China(2021).