Wang Weijue (b. 1993, Nanjing, China) received her Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University, USA, in 2015, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017.
Wang’s work does not depict scenes, but rather emotions that are ambiguous, fluid, and caught in tension—a quality tied as much to the physical nature of her long-used medium, wool felt, as to the conceptual strategy of articulating a distinct voice forged through women’s survival and reflection under structural pressures. She translates the public gaze and imagination of desire into countless needle pricks endured by soft materials—a process that metaphorically suggests repetition and subtle violence while also embodying, on a material level, the artist’s intensive labor in large-scale works. Through the incorporation of mixed media and multidimensional collage, she further expands the conversation around the boundaries between body and power. What is routinely suppressed in daily life thus emerges: body parts revealing sexuality, faces hovering between agony and ecstasy, the textures of domestic textiles—their force latent beneath a veneer of beauty, persistently murmuring within the friction of materials and the cracks of structures.
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Solo/Double Solo Shows
2025 Oxymoron, E.SCAPE, Shanghai, China
2024 Misting the Hillsides, BROWNIE Project Gallery, Shanghai, China
2024 Mold Remover, DOSE Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023 SHUT UP, EAST Gallery, ART021, Shanghai, China
2023 Aphrodite’s Discourse, JW PROJECT, Singapore
2021 Ghost Wedding Dress, Banana Art Space, Nanjing, China
2020 Gift, TOKU Gallery, Nanjing, China
2018 A Room of One’s Own, TOKU Gallery, Nanjing, China
Selected Group Shows
2025 The Specters of Pan-Asia, DOSE Gallery, Shanghai, China
2025 Vulnerability at 3am, Unveil Gallery, Irvine, CA, US
2025 The Many within Her, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK
2025 Day Dream, Unveil Gallery, Irvine, CA, US
2024 Desire, EYECANDIES, Shanghai, China
2024 A Room of One’s Own, Art Central, EYECANDIES, Hong Kong
2023 Stendahl Syndrome, the Green Room, Beijing, China
2022 Absence of God, chiK11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2021 Brilliance of all Things, Bainfootmark Art Center, Suzhou, China
2021 I am alright, Toku Gallery, Nanjing, China
2021 Regeneration, Elle Decoration, Shanghai World Expo, Shanghai, China
2020 New Look, ShanghART Gallery& Baiziting Art Center, Nanjing, China
2019 One Ton Project, Hengfu Art Center, Shanghai, China
2019 The Writing of Romantic, 24 Hours Art Gallery, Nanjing, China
