Li Wei is a contemporary artist who creates visually stunning and gravity-defying performance art photographs. He records physically challenging conceptual stunts without relying on the help of digital enhancements. Through his artwork, he wishes to explore the external forces that dictate human behavior, and reflects upon the exponential growth that China has experienced in recent history.
Li Wei was born in Hubei, China in 1970 and currently resides in Beijing, China. Since 2000, he has regularly shown his work in China, the U.S. and Europe in private galleries, museums and institutional centers. Exhibitions include Open Art Platform at the Performance Art Festival, 2000, Constructed Reality - Beijing/ Hong Kong Conceptual Photography at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Scar - Chinese Conceptual Photography at the Exhibition Hall of Capital Normal University, 2011, and Flying - Performance, Photography, Videos, Beijing Red Square, 2002.
Abroad he has been included in shows such as Mois de la Photo, Histories de Chine in Auxerre, France, 2002, China Art Now. Out of the Red at the FlashArt Museum in Italy and the Prague Biennial, 2003, Between Past and Future. New Photography and Video from China in ICP, Asia Society, New York and Smart Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Officina Asia at Galleria d'Arte Moderna Cesena, Bologna Italy, Other recent exhibitions includes Tiananmen, in Paris, and MMAC Japan, Artificial Merriment Melbourne Australia 2004, and Between Past and Future at the Seattle Art Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2005.