Wu Wei was born in Zhengzhou in 1981. He graduated from Experimental Art Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts with master’s degree and now he lives in Beijing. Wu Wei’s works are full of Issues like touch and desire, involving the issues of body perception, primitive thinking and spatial poetics. In 2015, he won the Sixth Saint Angelo Shiny Artists Ceremony, Top Prize, and in 2012, he won the Art Trend Award in the 3rd New Star Art Festival.
He participated in the International Art Residence in Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany. He exhibited in Whitebox Art Center (Beijing); Power Station Of Art Museum, Shanghai; AMNUA museum, Nanjing; Minsheng Museum Beijing; Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (Philadelphia, U.S.A.); University of British Columbia (Canada, Vancouver); XC.HuA Galleries (Berlin/Beijing); Migrant Bird Space (Berlin, Germany); Chambers Fine Art (Beijing); Fulc art space (Vienna, Austria) and other art institutions, public collections such as Minsheng Museum Beijing, CAFA Art Museum Beijing, Whitebox Art Center Beijing, Today Art Museum and other institutions.