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Weng Fen (Weng Peijun)    (Chinese, 1961)

  Weng Fen (Weng Peijun) - Bird's Eye View New Beijing No. 9 (Photographs) h: 63 x w: 78.8 in / h: 160 x w: 200.2 cm
Weng Fen (Weng Peijun)
Bird's Eye View New Beijing No. 9 2007
 
  

Biography
1961 Born in Hainan, China.
1985 Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Present: a Teacher in Art Collage of Hainan University
Lives and works in Haikou, China

Exhibitions
2008 'GO CHINA – New world Order', Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
2007 'My Olympics', Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007 'Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg', Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2007 'The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection', Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland
2007 'Zhù yi! Fotografía 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
2006 'Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg', Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2005 The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2005 'Zooming into Focus – Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection', National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2005 'A Strange Heaven – Contemporary Chinese Photography', Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Mahjong – Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland
2005 'Body Temperatur', Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
2005 '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
2004 'Zooming into Focus', Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2004 'Spellbound Aura – The New Vision of Chinese Photography', Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei), Taipei, Taiwan
2004 '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
2003 'New Zone - Chinese Art', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2003 'Zooming into Focus', San Diego State University Gallery and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
2003 'Open Sky', Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2003 'Weng Fen Solo Show', Marella Arte Contemoranea, Milano, Italy (solo)
2003 'From Desire to Where?', Tang Art allery, Bangkok, Thailand
2003 'China Contemporary Art', Kristianstads Konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden
2003 'Facing Nature', Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland
2003 'How Big Is the World', Koahsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2003 'Out Of The Red', Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2003 'Too Much Flavor', Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2003 'Junction – Chinese Contemporary Architecture of Art', Lianyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2003 'A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography', Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech
2002 'New Photography from China', CourtYard Gallery, Beijing, China
2002 'How Big Is the World', OK Contemporary Art Centre, Linz, Austria
2002 The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2002 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2002 'Paris-Beijing', Espace Cardin, Paris, France
2002 'Everyday Attitude', Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao, China
2002 'Chinese Modernity', Museum de Arte Brasileira (MAB), São Paulo, Brazil
2002 'Too Much Flavor', 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China
2001 'L’ Album de la Chine, Septembre de la Photographie', Galerie Soardi, Nice, France
2001 'Knowledge Is Power', Sidan Library Town, Beijing, China
2001 The 16th Asian International Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001 1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2001 'Body Resources and Materials', Hong Kong Arts Commune, Hong Kong, China
2001 'Trio or Treat', Sho Art Maison Library, Tokyo, Japan
2001 'Virtual Future', Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2000 'China Avant-Garde Artists Documenta Exhibition', FuKuoKa Aisian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2000 'Charming China', East Gallery, Shanghai, China
2000 'Man and Animals Performance', Art Show, Guilin, China
2000 'Home? – Contemporary Art Project', Xingyue Frniture Warehouse, Shanghai, China
2000 'Normal and Abnormal', Yuangong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1999 'Departure from China', Beijing Design Museum, Beijing, China
1999 '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

Literature
2007 China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
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