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Biography of Weng Fen
Born in 1961, Hainan, China.
Weng Fen graduated from Guagzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1985.
Currently he works as a Teacher in Art Collage of Hainan University
Wang lives and works in Haikou, China.
Influences
The transitional phases and changes in China since its opening up in the 1980's, both physically and emotionally, have been the source of inspiration for Weng Peijun (Weng Fen) and his work. In his earlier series 'Sitting on the Wall' and 'Bird's Eye View', Weng's epic images focus on the upraising of urbanism in cities such as Haikou, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
His subjects start out as outsiders looking into this overwhelming transformation with anticipation, fear and curiosity to being in the centre of it all. Weng then follows and evolves inwardly, shifting his attention from physical changes to emotional and spiritual transformations, from urban cities to rural countries, exploring the possibility of finding an otherworldly utopia, a place that may have existed all along in our hearts and minds, in our memories and those innocent times, which results in the acclaimed 'Staring at The Sea' series...
Exhibitions of Weng Fen
Solo Exhibitions:
2005
- Weng Fen's Virtual World, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2004
- Chinese Viewing the World, Staring at the Sea by Weng Fen, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2003
- Weng Fen, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Group Exhibitions:
2008
- 'GO CHINA - New world Order', Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
2007
- 'My Olympics', Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
- 'Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg', Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
- 'The Year of the Golden Pig - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection', Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland
- 'Zhù yi! Fotografîa actual en China', Artium - Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2006
- 'Time is Money - Let Some People Get Rich First', Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
- 'Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg', Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2005
- The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
- 'Zooming into Focus - Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection', National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- 'A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography', Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
- Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
- 'Body Temperatur', Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
- 'Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China', Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; ICP International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2004
- 'New Chinese Photography', New York International Centre of Photography, New York, USA
- 'Zooming into Focus', Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- 'Spellbound Aura - The New Vision of Chinese Photography', Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei), Taipei, Taiwan
- 'Die Chinesen - Fotografie und Video aus China / The Chinese - Photography and Video from China', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2003
- 'Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China', 'Alors, la Chine?', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- 'New Zone - Chinese Art', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
- 'Zooming into Focus', San Diego State University Gallery and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
- 'Open Sky', Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
- 'Weng Fen Solo Show', Marella Arte Contemoranea, Milano, Italy (solo)
- 'From Desire to Where?', Tang Art allery, Bangkok, Thailand
- 'China Contemporary Art', Kristianstads Konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden
- 'Facing Nature', Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland
- 'How Big Is the World', Koahsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 'Out Of The Red', Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
- 'Too Much Flavor', Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
- 'Junction - Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art', Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- 'A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech
2002
- 'New Photography from China', CourtYard Gallery, Beijing, China
- 'How Big Is the World', OK Contemporary Art Centre, Linz, Austria
- The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
- Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- 'Paris-Beijing', Espace Cardin, Paris, France
- 'Everyday Attitude', Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China
- 'Chinese Modernity', Museum de Arte Brasileira (MAB), São Paulo, Brazil
- 'Too Much Flavor', 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China
2001
- 'L' Album de la Chine, Septembre de la Photographie', Galerie Soardi, Nice, France
- 'Knowledge Is Power', Sidan Library Town, Beijing, China
- The 16th Asian International Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
- 1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
- 'Body Resources and Materials', Hong Kong Arts Commune, Hong Kong, China
- 'Trio or Treat', Sho Art Maison Library, Tokyo, Japan
- 'Virtual Future', Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2000
- 'China Avant-Garde Artists Documenta Exhibition', FuKuoKa Aisian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
- 'Charming China', East Gallery, Shanghai, China
- 'Man and Animals Performance', Art Show, Guilin, China
- 'Home? - Contemporary Art Project', Xingyue Frniture Warehouse, Shanghai, China
- 'Normal and Abnormal', Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1999
- 'Departure from China', Beijing Design Museum, Beijing, China
- 'Post-Sense Sensibility - Alien Bodies & Delusion', Shaoyaoju, Beijing, China
1997
- '97' China Video Art Exchange of 97', Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
