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Liang Wei is an artist based in Beijing. She was studied at La Cambre – École nationale supérieure des arts visuels, and graduated from L’Arts Plastiques Université de Strasbourg (France) in 1999.

In Liang Wei’s work, each painting creates its own macrocosm. Within each composition, images grow and mutate, form agglomerations and accumulations and evolve with an untethered lifeforce. They are adaptations of mass images, mass data, like the world’s DNA unspooled. However, Liang’s paintings are not comprised of images. Whatever images were fed into her work have been utterly digested and assimilated by an inner process. What comes out of that process can be understood as psychological maps of reality. In a hyper-individualist society moulded by off-line and online realities, no one perspective holds sway. Instead, infinite takes on reality exist simultaneously, each one ready to change in an instant. Liang Wei’s work excavates this sense of dislocation, creating worlds grown from this schizophrenic societal condition.

Liang Wei’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions such as Magician Space and Bernier/Eliades Gallery, and was included in exhibitions at Rubell Museum (Miami), Pera Museum (Istanbul), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney), Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul), Battersea Power Station (London), Mudam (Luxembourg), K11 Art Foundation, MoMA PS1 (Shanghai, Hong Kong), Beijing Minsheng Art Museum (Beijing), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), OCAT Xi’an (Xi’an), etc.

Her work is collected by Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, White Rabbit Gallery, the De Heus-Zomer Collection, K11 Art Foundation, Blackstone Group etc.