Shen Wei

Shen Wei (simplified Chinese: 沈玮; traditional Chinese: 沈瑋; pinyin: Shěn Wěi) is a Chinese artist known for his intimate portraits of others and himself, as well as his poetic photographs of landscape and still-life.His artistic style has often been described as dream-like, elusive, and erotic.

Born in Shanghai, China, Shen Wei lives in New York City.

Hailed as "one of the most prominent Chinese photo artists of his generation" by CNN,Shen Wei's work has been exhibited and published worldwide, with works included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.He has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and Asian Cultural Council and had participated in prestigious artist-in-residence programs such as the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy, and Light Work in Syracuse, NY.His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, CNN, Aperture, ARTnews, Paris Review, Financial Times, Le Figaro, American Photo, and so on.

Shen Wei received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in photography, video, and related media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Shen's work is held in the following public collections:

• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
• North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
• Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
• John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, NV
• CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
• LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA

Solo exhibitions

• Randall Scott Gallery, Almost Naked, New York, NY (2009)
• Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Chinese Sentiment, New York, NY (2011)
• The Art Institute of Boston, Chinese Sentiment, Boston, MA (2011)
• Lumenvisum Gallery, Chinese Sentiment, Hong Kong, China (2011)
• L.A. Galerie Frankfurt, Chinese Sentiment, Frankfurt, Germany (2013)
• Daniel Cooney Fine Art, I Miss You Already, New York, NY (2012)
• Light Work, I Miss You Already, Syracuse, NY (2012)
• Epson Imaging Gallery, Chinese Sentiment, Shanghai, China (2012)
• H Art Gallery, I Miss You Already, Bangkok, Thailand (2014)
• Flowers Gallery, Invisible Atlas, New York, NY (2015)
• SinArts Gallery, Between Blossoms, The Hague, Netherlands (2017)
• Flowers Gallery, Between Blossoms, New York, NY (2017)
• Signum Foundation, Between Blossoms, Lodz, Poland (2017)
• ON/Gallery, Undefined Time of Intuition, Beijing, China (2018)
• Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Shen Wei: Blossoms, Changsha, China (2018)
• Flowers Gallery, Shen Wei, London, NY (2019)

Group exhibitions

• Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall, Obsession, New York, NY (2005)
• ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, U Can't Touch Dis, New York, NY (2007)
• Australian Centre for Photography, Hijacked, Sydney, Australia. (2008)
• Deutsche Bank Gallery, Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win, New York, NY (2008)
• CAFA Art Museum, Faces of Life, Beijing, China (2010)
• The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Nature & Nurture, Bloomington, IN (2010)
• Galleria Contemporaneo, Global Photography, Venice, Italy. (2010)
• Museum of the City of New York, Movable Feast, New York, NY (2011)
• Harn Museum of Art, Highlights from the Asian Collection, Gainesville, Florida(2011)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PMA Photography Portfolio 2012, Philadelphia, PA (2012)
• Southeast Museum of Photography, Anthology 2012: Contemporary Photography, Daytona Beach, FL (2012)
• Liu Haisu Art Museum, Hong Kong and One World, Shanghai, China (2012)
• Daegu Biennale, Special Exhibition: Repositioned Personal, Daegu, Korea (2012)
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Between Image and Personality. Moscow, Russia (2013)
• He Xiangning Art Museum, Local Future, Shenzhen, China (2013)
• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, FL (2013)
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Between Image and Personality. Moscow, Russia (2013)
• He Xiangning Art Museum, Local Future, Shenzhen, China (2013)
• North Carolina Museum of Art, Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, Raleigh, NC (2014)
• La Triennale di Milano, Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851. Milan, Italy (2015)
• Power Station of Art, Snacks, Shanghai, China (2016)
• The Ringling Museum of Art, Exposure: Naked before the lens, Sarasota, FL (2016)
• Museo Universitario del Chopo, Divina Comedia, Mexico City, Mexico (2018)
• CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing, China (2018)
• Harn Museum of Art, Inside Outside: Outside Inside, Gainesville, FL (2018)
• Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, West East, Milan, Italy (2019)
• Hasselblad Foundation, Moonlight – 50 Years of Photographing the Moon, Göteborg, Sweden (2019)
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Go Down Moses, Chicago, IL (2019)