Zhi Wei

Zhi Wei's multidisciplinary practice encompasses textile, painting, sculpture, and installation. Drawing from their family’s fabric business, Zhi Wei integrates familiar plaid patterns into their work, creating layered compositions that explore themes of childhood, identity, and transformation. By combining painting and textiles, they challenge traditional distinctions between abstraction and figuration, as well as two- and three-dimensionality. Their labor-intensive, handcrafted pieces evoke a sense of nostalgia and vulnerability, inviting viewers to reflect on the fluidity of personal and cultural narratives.

Zhi Wei (b. 1997, Beijing, China) lives and works between Shanghai and Paris. A 2019 graduate of the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Wei's work has been showcased in various solo and group exhibitions internationally. Their first solo exhibition at Galerie Balice Hertling took place in Paris in 2023. Recent group exhibitions include Longlati Foundation (Shanghai, 2024); TANK Q, TANK Shanghai (Shanghai, 2024); Homestead, George Town (Penang, 2024); Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi (Lecce, 2023); Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris, 2022); G Museum (Nanjing, 2022); TAG Art Museum (Qingdao, 2022); Magician Space (Beijing, 2022); and Hive Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2021).