Pu Yingwei

Pu Yingwei (b.1989), lives and works between Lyon, France and Beijing, China. Pu received his BFA from Sichuan Fine art Institute, DNSEP (MFA with Félicitation du jury) from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Recent solo exhibitions/projects include: RedNow, Me, galerie Sator Komunuma, Romainville, France (2023); Obscure Adventure - Speculative Pop & Pan-Chinesism, SSSSTART, Shanghai, China (2021); Photoethic: CHINAFRICA, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, (2020); Time, History, Why We Fight, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2020); Pu Yingwei 1989, Organhaus, Chongqing, China (2019); Double Empire, Nouvel Institut Franco-Chinois, Lyon, France (2018); If only it were true, Galerie Sator, Paris, France (2018); Pu Yingwei and Jim Thompson Architects, J: GALLERY, Shanghai, China (2017); Roman Nomade, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2017).
 
Recent group exhibitions: PROJECTION, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2023); ENDLESS ANNOTATION, Yalu River Art Museum Annual Document Exhibition, Dantong, China (2023); TEXAS BAR BORDEL, Corentin Canesson + invité.e.s, galerie Sator-Komunuma, Romainville, France (2022); 13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2021); An Archive Seven Trails, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2020); Those who see and know all, are all and can do all, 798 Art Center, Beijing, China (2020); Gold en Flow, CHAO Art Center, Beijing, China (2020); Being of Evils, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2020); GS-GP-001' Galerie Sator, Paris, France (2019); Dance With It, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2018); The Comfort Zone At A Distance, Taikang Space-Light Pavilion, Beijing, China (2018); Frontier: Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Shanghai/OCAT Institute, Shanghai/Beijing, China (2017-2018); Fiction Art, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (2018); I Do (not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration, Qiao Space & TANK Shanghai Project Space, Shanghai, China (2017); Reciprocal Enlightenment, CAFA, Beijing, China (2017). Recently curated exhibitions: Sino-Wharf from Chinatown to Red Internationalism, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (2018).

Yingwei won the John Moores Painting Prize (2012). 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 (2019). He was  shortlisted for the HuaYu Youth Award (2018), JIMEI·ARLES Discovery Reward (2020), and the Gen.T Asian Emerging Pioneers list (2020). His film "Interview" was also shortlisted for Caen Si Cinéma Festival (2018).