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Liang Wei is a painter and video artist based in Beijing. She graduated from L’Art Plastiques Universite Des Sciences Humanines De Strasbourg, France in 1999.

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.

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. 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. They are adaptations of mass images, mass data, like the world’s DNA unspooled.

Liang Wei’s work has been shown in Circumstantial, Magician Space, Beijing (2024); One, and the Same, Magician Space, Beijing (2021); Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing (2020); Folded Silence, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Brussels, Belgian (2019); “Out of Ink”, Pera Museum, Istanbul; “Before Itself”, Magician Space, Beijing; “.com/.cn”, K11 Art Foundation, MoMA PS1, Hong Kong, Shanghai; “The Garden of Diversion”, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; “Place of Residence-with Artists from Brazil and China”, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai; “Moving Image In China 1988–2011”, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; “City Net Asia 2007”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; The 12th Kolkata Film Festival; “China Power Station”, Battersea Power Station, London.