Wei Qingji (b. 1971, Qingdao, China) is a leading figure of China’s contemporary ink painting. He is recognized for redefining the boundaries of traditional ink painting within a global cultural context. Active since the 1990s, his practice transforms ink and wash into an open visual language through the incorporation of everyday signs, mass-media imagery, and historical references. By displacing familiar symbols from their original functions, Wei constructs ambiguous, reflective narratives that move beyond fixed cultural binaries and linear interpretation.
His work explores lived experience, memory, and methodological transformation as central concerns of contemporary art. Wei has exhibited extensively in China and internationally, including the National Art Museum of China, the National Gallery in Berlin (Germany), the Meridian International Center (USA), the National Gallery in Prague (Czech Republic), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), the Foundation Daniel & Florence Guerlain (France), the Saatchi Gallery (UK), and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
He earned his Bachelor from the Department of Oriental Art at Nankai University (1995), completed advanced studies at the Mural Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (2003), and obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Art and Design, Wuhan University of Technology (2008) ，and is currently an Associate Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.