PU YINGWEI

Pu Yingwei (b. 1989) lives and works in Beijing, China. As an active contributor to the new generation of political conceptual art in China, he critically engages with the socialist art genealogy. Pu Yingwei dedicates his work to articulating the changes in China’s identity amid globalization and exploring the deeper impact of China’s modernization and development model on global patterns through cross-cultural narratives. His practice employs various media, including painting, video, design, writing, and lecturing. He has developed a “new internationalist” artistic language based on his perception of Eastern civilization. In recent years, Pu Yingwei has deepened his global engagement, traveling to Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas, and the Caribbean, including regions like the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine, which are currently in conflict.

Pu received his BFA from Sichuan Fine Art Institute in 2013, DNSEP (MFA with Félicitation du jury) from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2018. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the John Moores Painting Prize, the Golden Hibiscus Award for Photography, and the International Awards for Art Criticism Prize (IAAC) for his writings. Pu has been recognized in prestigious lists such as Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists of the Year, Gen. T Asian Emerging Pioneers list, China Art power 100, and the HuaYu Youth Award, among others. He also received the TAG New Contemporary Art Prize, the Jimei Arles Discovery Reward, Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Award, and was named the first “FT Chinese Artist of the year” by Financial Times.

Pu Yingwei’s works have been exhibited at numerous prestigious venues and institutions both domestically and internationally, including the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), the 13th Shanghai Biennale, the Caen Film Festival, Nouvel Institut Franco-Chinois (Lyon), the National Art Museum of China, the Power Station of Art in Shanghai (Shanghai), the OCAT Museums, and the Taikang Space (Beijing). His works are widely collected by significant institutions and collections such as the KADIST, the Groupe Emerige (France), the White Rabbit Gallery (Australia), the Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou), the He Art Museum (Shunde, China), the Start Museum (Shanghai), the Song Art Museum (Beijing), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, China), the Longlati Foundation (Shanghai), and the ASE Foundation (Shanghai).

PU YINGWEI

1989 Born in Shanxi, lives and works in Beijing, China
2013Sichuan Fine art Institute, Bachelor Degree
2018 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, MFA with Félicitation du jury

Solo exhibitions/projects
2025 Red Computer, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2024 New Century Encyclopedia, He Art Museum，Shunde, China
2023 Red Now, Me, Galrie Sator Komunuma, Paris, France
2022 Red World When We Love, West Bund Art and Design, Shanghai, China
2021 A Study in Scarlet, Mamoth, London, United Kingdom
Obscure Adventure – Speculative Pop & Pan-Chinesism, START Museum, The Research, Shanghai, China
2020 Photoethic: CHINAFRICA, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
Time, History, Why We Fight, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Pu Yingwei: China Capital, Madein Gallery, Shanghai, China
2019 Pu Yingwei 1989, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2018 Double Empire, Nouvel Institut Franco-Chinois, Lyon, France
If only it were true, Galerie Sator, Paris, France
2017 Pu Yingwei and Jim Thompson Architects, J：GALLERY, Shanghai, China
Roman Nomade, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Selected group exhibitions
2025 Luminosity Reborn, Fudan University 120th Anniversary Exhibition& Inaugural Exhibition of Fudan Art Museum, Fudan Flux, Fudan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Sea of Tranquility, Yue Art Museum, Yantai, China
Re-Asia Project – Prologue, Longlati, Shanghai, China
Questions That Pierce Time, Hunan Art Museum’s Fifth Young Artist Program, Hunan Art Museum, Hunan, China
2024 Centre Anywhere, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
One and All: New Artistic Styles of Contemporary Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Symphony of Coexistence – Chinese and Southeast Asian Art Invitational Exhibition, Art Museum of SCFAI, Chongqing, China
Return of the Sea, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China
Perception and Traces, The Age of Human Wisdom, Jinan International Biennale, Jinan, China
Pulse of the Hinterland: Wisdom Integration of the Silk Road, The 4th Xinjiang China International Art Biennial, Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, China
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2013-2024, One Art Museum, Beijing, China
2023 Compound Eyes and Deep Pupils, Annual Exhibition of the Oil Painting Department, 30th Anniversary Archive Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Geographies of Feeling, 2023 Parallel Exhibition of Chengdu Biennale, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Seaward, the 2nd TAG-New Contemporary,TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China
13+1 – Genealogy Study of Artists Season 1, Start Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Seeking the City, 2023 Datong Contemporary Art Season, Datong Ancient City, Taiping Tower South, Datong, China
Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Focus China, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Steadfastly Revise for the Standards in Nonproductive Construction, Lona March Space, Beijing, China
Annular Vaccum Chamber, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
Projection, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Resonance Between Text, Code and Perception: Three Perspectives of Medium in Art Practice, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Edges as the Center: Riverine Borders, Bridges and Memory Spaces between China, Mongolia, North Korea and Russia, G Museum, Nanjing, China
2022 ON |OFF: Carousel of Progress, He Art Museum, Shunde, China
Floating, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
The Disconnected Generation, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China
Pixe/ Row, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
Wuhan Biennale: Open Gesture, He Museum, Wuhan, China
Un dialogue avec la Sensibilité Écriture, Désir, Amour, Being Art Museum , Shanghai, China
2021 When and Only When, the Strong Wind Rolled up the Surge, Aranya, Qinhuangdao, China
Almost Paradise, Mis/Perceptions of Leisure and Labor in the Asia – Pacific, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Circular lmpact: Video Art 21, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2020 An Archive Seven Trails, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
Those who see and know all, are all and can do all, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China
Gold en Flow, CHAO Art Center, Beijing, China
Being of Evils, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2018 Dance With It, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
The Comfort Zone At A Distance, Taikang Space-Light Pavilion, Beijing, China
Fiction Art, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2017-2018 OCAT Shanghai/OCAT Institute, Shanghai/Beijing, China
2017 I Do (not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration, Qiao Space & TANK Shanghai
Project Space, Shanghai, China
Reciprocal Enlightenment, CAFA, Beijing, China

Recently curated exhibitions
2023Youth Now!, The Up&Coming Sector, Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing, China
2022Silk Road Traveler, Lethe’s Wanderer, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Far West: Strange Dreams of Strangers in Strange Lands, Short Film Screening, UCCA Auditorium, Beijing, China
2020 Sino-Wharf from Chinatown to Red Internationalism, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Awards
2025 First “FT Artist of the Year”, Financial Times China, United Kingdom
2024 Shortlisted for The 2nd TAG-New Contemporary
2023 Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists of the Year
The Golden Hibiscus Award for Photography
2021Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Award
Shortlisted for China Art power 100
2020 JIMEI·ARLES Discovery Reward
Gen.T Asian Emerging Pioneers list (2020)
2019 His article “Empire’s Legacy：On “Pacing: A Journey of 70 years” and its silences” won the second prize of the IAAC ( International Awards for Art Criticism) prize .
2018 Shortlisted for HuaYu Youth Award
His film“Interview” has been shortlisted for Caen Si Cinéma Festival
2012The John Moores Painting Prize

Public Collections
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
KADIST Foundation, France
Emerige Group, France
White Rabbit, Australia
Guangdong Museum of Art, China
HE Art Museum, China
Star Museum, China
Song Art Museum, China
Sifang Contemporary Art Museum, China
Longlati Foundation, China
ASE Foundation, China
Whale Art Museum, Singapore