Faye Wei Wei

Faye Hoi Wing Wong, known professionally as Faye Wei Wei, is an English painter. She was named one to watch by British Vogue and It's Nice That in 2018 and a hot name in the art world by The Sunday Times in 2021.

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Early life

Wei Wei was born in Tooting, South London to Hong Kong parents. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts. She won the Cass Art Prize for graduating students. As of 2024, Wei Wei is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at Yale Art School.

Career

After graduating, Wei Wei completed the Hoy Hoy residency. In 2017, Wei Wei had her debut solo exhibition at age 23 titled Anemones and Lovers at London's Cob Gallery. Dazed called her "London's dreamiest painter". In 2018, she had solo exhibitions at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester and the SADE Gallery in Los Angeles. She also did a joint display with Zoë Paul in Athens among other group exhibitions. In addition, Wei Wei contributed paintings to Hannah Weiland's Shrimps SS18 and RTW AW19 collections at London Fashion Week.
In 2019, Wei Wei was awarded a commission by the British Council Hong Kong and Phillips auctioneers to create an installation in Tai Kwun for the SPARK festival. She returned to Cob Gallery with the solo exhibition I've Always Been a Weeper at the Cinema.
Via Éditions Lutanie, Wei Wei's book Hooker's Green Lake was published in 2020. She also had a solo exhibition at Galerie Kandlhofer in Vienna; she would return in 2021 and 2022. The former titled Moon was synchronised with Sun at Isetan in Tokyo. Also in 2021, Wei Wei collaborated with Simone Rocha and H&M on a pop-up book.
In 2023, Wei Wei solo exhibited at Situations in New York and Alkinois Art Space in Athens. Wei Wei reunited with Éditions Lutanie for the publication of her monograph Portals, which collects her work over 14 years, in 2024.

Exhibitions

Solo

Anemones and Lovers at Cob Gallery Aristotle's Lantern at Cob Gallery CFCCA Presents: Faye Wei Wei at the Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art Sweet Bitter, Valentine at the SADE Gallery I've Always Been a Weeper at the Cinema at the Cob Gallery If You Sat Long Enough You Could See a Flower Bloom at Galerie Kandlhofer Sun at Isetan the Space Moon at Galerie Kandlhofer The Moon Balloon of New York City at Galerie Kandlhofer Tiny Melody Chamber at Situations Bird Blowing Love at Alkinois Art Space The Sounds of the Organ Pushing the Walls of the Cathedral Outwards at Galerie Kandlhofer

Installations

Neon Spark at Tai Kwun

Group

Eclectic Dreamers at Siegfried ContemporarySummer Blue at Lychee One To a God Unknown at Mrs Marzanna, Yours Again at Hot Wheels, with Zoë PaulInto Raptures at Barbara Feinman Gallery dreamin' wild at Keteleer Gallery The Clarkory Show at Museum Gallery Rhapsodies at Ping Pong Gallery New Work Part III: Subject at Cob Gallery The Picture is a Forest at Gallerie Kandlhofer and I'll have a pepper-shaker in my cave, so laugh at LTD Los AngelesShifts in Time at Over the Influence Topian Gardens at Gallery Vacancy A High Hang at Eccleston Project Space A Couple of: The Dual-mechanism of the New Generation of Asian Artists at Hive Art A Plant Has Been One of my Best Friends for a Long Time Now at Situations Through the Prism at Gillian Jason Gallery Nada New York at Situations The Gallery of Delights on Earth at Gallery 46 The Last Seahorse Neighing in an Egg at Ninetto