# Shen Wei (Artist)

Shen Wei (沈玮) is a Chinese-born American artist known for his intimate portraits of others and himself, as well as his poetic photographs of landscape and still-life. His artistic style is frequently characterized as dream-like, elusive, and erotic. In addition to photography, Shen Wei also works in painting, sculpture, and video.
Originally from Shanghai, China, Shen Wei is currently based in New York City.

## Recognition

Described by CNN as "one of the most prominent Chinese photo artists of his generation," Shen Wei's work has been exhibited and published internationally. His work are part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. He has been awarded fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and Asian Cultural Council. He has participated in esteemed artist-in-residence programs at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy, and Château de la Napoule in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, CNN, Aperture, ARTnews, Paris Review, Financial Times, Le Figaro, American Photo, etc.
In May 2021, the feature documentary film Almost Naked, directed by Liang Mai, followed Shen Wei's creative process in producing self-portraits. The film premiered at the 16th Harlem International Film Festival in New York City.

## Education

Shen Wei holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography, video, and related media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

## Monographs

Almost Naked. Jiazazhi Press. 2018. ISBN: 9780981877020
Chinese Sentiment. Charles Lane Press. 2011. ISBN 978-09818770-2-0

## Collections

Shen's work is held in the following public collections:
* Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
* Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
* The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
* Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
* Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
* Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
* Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
* Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
* North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
* Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
* John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, NV
* CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
* LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA

## Exhibitions
### Solo exhibitions

* Randall Scott Gallery, Almost Naked, New York, NY (2009)
* Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Chinese Sentiment, New York, NY (2011)
* The Art Institute of Boston, Chinese Sentiment, Boston, MA (2011)
* Lumenvisum Gallery, Chinese Sentiment, Hong Kong, China (2011)
* L.A. Galerie Frankfurt, Chinese Sentiment, Frankfurt, Germany (2013)
* Daniel Cooney Fine Art, I Miss You Already, New York, NY (2012)
* Light Work, I Miss You Already, Syracuse, NY (2012)
* Epson Imaging Gallery, Chinese Sentiment, Shanghai, China (2012)
* H Art Gallery, I Miss You Already, Bangkok, Thailand (2014)
* Flowers Gallery, Invisible Atlas, New York, NY (2015)
* SinArts Gallery, Between Blossoms, The Hague, Netherlands (2017)
* Flowers Gallery, Between Blossoms, New York, NY (2017)
* Signum Foundation, Between Blossoms, Lodz, Poland (2017)
* ON/Gallery, Undefined Time of Intuition, Beijing, China (2018)
* Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Shen Wei: Blossoms, Changsha, China (2018)
* Flowers Gallery, Shen Wei, London, NY (2019)
* Flowers Gallery, Shen Wei – Self, Hong Kong (2020)
* SinArts Gallery, I Miss You Already, The Hague, The Netherlands (2022)
* Zeto Art, Les Saisons Particulieres, Paris, France (2022)
* Flowers Gallery, A Season Particular, London, UK (2023)
* Foreign Agent, My Garden, Lausanne, Switzerland (2024)

### Group exhibitions

* Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall, Obsession, New York, NY (2005)
* ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, U Can't Touch Dis, New York, NY (2007)
* Australian Centre for Photography, Hijacked, Sydney, Australia. (2008)
* Deutsche Bank Gallery, Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win, New York, NY (2008)
* CAFA Art Museum, Faces of Life, Beijing, China (2010)
* The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Nature & Nurture, Bloomington, IN (2010)
* Galleria Contemporaneo, Global Photography, Venice, Italy. (2010)
* Museum of the City of New York, Movable Feast, New York, NY (2011)
* Harn Museum of Art, Highlights from the Asian Collection, Gainesville, Florida (2011)
* Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PMA Photography Portfolio 2012, Philadelphia, PA (2012)
* Southeast Museum of Photography, Anthology 2012: Contemporary Photography, Daytona Beach, FL (2012)
* Liu Haisu Art Museum, Hong Kong and One World, Shanghai, China (2012)
* Daegu Biennale, Special Exhibition: Repositioned Personal, Daegu, Korea (2012)
* Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Between Image and Personality. Moscow, Russia (2013)
* He Xiangning Art Museum, Local Future, Shenzhen, China (2013)
* Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, FL (2013)
* Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Between Image and Personality. Moscow, Russia (2013)
* He Xiangning Art Museum, Local Future, Shenzhen, China (2013)
* North Carolina Museum of Art, Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, Raleigh, NC (2014)
* La Triennale di Milano, Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851. Milan, Italy (2015)
* Power Station of Art, Snacks, Shanghai, China (2016)
* The Ringling Museum of Art, Exposure: Naked before the lens, Sarasota, FL (2016)
* Museo Universitario del Chopo, Divina Comedia, Mexico City, Mexico (2018)
* CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Photo Biennial, Beijing, China (2018)
* Harn Museum of Art, Inside Outside: Outside Inside, Gainesville, FL (2018)
* Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, West East, Milan, Italy (2019)
* Hasselblad Foundation, Moonlight – 50 Years of Photographing the Moon, Göteborg, Sweden (2019)
* Museum of Contemporary Photography, Go Down Moses, Chicago, IL (2019)
* LSU Museum of Art, Art in Louisiana – Views into the Collection, Baton Rouge, LA (2020)
* Museum of Fine Arts, From Margins to Mainstays, St. Petersburg, FL (2021)
* Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Wide Open. Ins Offene, Munich, Germany (2021)
* Morgan Library & Museum, New at The Morgan, New York, NY (2021)
* Harn Museum of Art, Global Perspectives, Gainsville, FL (2022)
* The Ringling Museum of Art, A Decade of Collecting, Sarasota, FL (2022)
* Berea College Doris Ulmann Galleries, Intimacy, Berea, KY (2023)
* The Morgan Library & Museum, Uncommon Denominator: Katchadourian at the Morgan, New York, NY (2023)