Artist
DING SHIWEI
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Ding Shiwei (b.1989) holds an MFA degree from the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art and now lives and works in Hangzhou, China. Extrapolating signs and symbols from history, philosophy, the Internet, and found objects, Ding constructs an enticing and poetic spectacle through videos and installations to foreground the digital representation and intervention of the material world. His works undertake a witty manner to examine and dissect multitudinal paradoxes, enriching the collective experience under a new media visual culture, meanwhile, redefining the principal-subordinate positions between body and media in the midst of virtuality and reality by permeating individual experience with fragments of data. Treating the media interface as a window towards information, his works extend as well as disrupt the physical connection between body and space; the LCD screen further captures an eternal state beyond time and space, unveiling the sense of displacement and powerlessness throughout the circulation of information. As the viewer interacts with the multimedia works through digital screens, individual emotion and ideas are scrupulously embodied in a series of contemporary, political, and aesthetic enchantment, attaining redemption and materialization in the infinite fluxes of video montage.
His solo exhibitions include: Faith on Tap, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; Enter The Void, Imagokinetics Lab, Hangzhou, 2020; What We Talk About When We Talk About Sea Horizon & Moon, One Way Art Gallery, Beijing, 2019; Daybreak, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, 2016; Meteor Sonata, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2016; and Disparate Illusion, Mao Space, Shanghai, 2015. His work has been featured in exhibitions at K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai; MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan; China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Musée-Château, Annecy; Castello Di Rivara Center for Contemporary Art, Turin; and CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2015. Ding was the recipient of a special award for the Prix Videoformes in Clermont-Ferrand, France in 2015 and a silver medalist of the Chinese Film Festival in Washington D.C., US in 2014. His animated short films had screenings at various international film festivals, including Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy, Holland International Animation Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Tampere Film Festival. 
Ding Shiwei, The Abyss Watchers No.1, 2019
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Solo Exhibitions
2021 Faith on Tap, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN 2020 Enter the Void, Imagokinetics Lab, Hangzhou, CN 2019 What We Talk About When We Talk About Sea Horizon & Moon, One Way Art Gallery, Beijing, CN 2016 Daybreak, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, CN 2016 Meteor Sonata, Holland Animation Film Festival 2016, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL 2015 Disparate Illusion, Mao Space, Shanghai, CN Group Exhibitions 2021 Moisture, RIVERSIDE, Hangzhou, CN 2021 [Permission Denied], Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN 2021 Existence, Wind H Art Center, Beijing, CN 2021 The Republic and Qiu Shui, Tong Gallery+Projects, Beijing, CN 2020 The Shapes of Immortality, Arts & Crafts Museum, Hangzhou, CN 2020 Decameron: Ivy Art 2020, Pioneer Art Center, OCT Tianjin, Tianjin, CN 2020 One Tree Fifty Ideas, OōEli, Hangzhou, CN 2020 New Era F.E.S.T., K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, CN 2019 Silent Narratives, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, CN 2019 One Way Art, One Way Art Gallery, Beijing, CN 2019 Elemental Dynamite-Research on Intermedia Practices in Animated Pictures, Hong Kong, CN 2018 12.12 As a Reason, Imagokinetics Lab, Hangzhou, CN 2018 Presence-Young Artist Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, CN 2018 @ Port, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, CN 2018 Post-Southern Song Dynasty, Jindu Art Center, Beijing, CN 2018 After Sunset, Galerie Liusa Wang, Pairs, FR 2018 The One-sided Fable, Extrart Base, Shanghai, CN 2018 Sea, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong, CN 2018 LUO Zhongli Scholarship, Luo Zhongli Museum, Chongqing, CN 2017 China, Art in Motion, Musée-Château, Annecy, FR 2017 Ballade-Animamix Art Contemporary, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, CN 2017 Spain Moving Images Festival, Cineteca, Madrid, ES 2017 Exhibition of Han Feng’s Personal Art Collection, AmanYangYun, Shanghai, CN 2017 Video Asia, Casal Solleric, Palma, ES 2017 Genesis Mythology: Inner Journey, Liuhaisu Museum, Shanghai, CN 2017 The Den, Martin Goya Business, Hangzhou, CN 2016 Utopia & Beyond, Castello Di Rivara Center for Contemporary Art, Turin, IT 2016 The Big Move-A New Force of Chinese Experimental Animation, AMNUA, Nanjing, CN 2016 Animamix Biennial, MoCA, Shanghai, CN 2016 Inner Universe, Gallery Yang, Beijing, CN 2016 Animation Goes MSU, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR 2016 Seeing the World in Motion: From the CAFAM Video Art Collection, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN 2016 Bienal De La Imagen En Movimiento (BIM), Muntref - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, AR 2016 Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, CN 2016 Bideodromo International Film and Video Festival, BilbaoArte Art Production Center, Sarean Cultural Center, French Institute of Bilbao, Bilbao, ES 2016 Reel China 8th Biennial 2016, New York University, New York, US 2015 CAFAM Future Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN 2015 Moving Image, A Contemporary ABC, Gaî Lyrique, Pairs, FR 2015 Prix Videoformes 2015 VIDEOFORUM Digital Arts International Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, FR 2015 The Power of the Folk, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, CN 2015 Moving in Time B3+BEIJING Moving Image Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN 2015 Small Is Beautiful, Art Season Gallery, Beijing, CN 2015 Alluviation Experimental Video Exhibition, Guangzhou, CN 2014 Hello, Comrades: Edinburgh Video Exhibition, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, GB 2014 Realms Beyond - the Concept of Absolute, 5-Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, CN 2014 The Edge of Nature, Hangzhou Experimental Video Artists Exhibition, Hangzhou, CN 2014 Begin From Chaos: The Inaugural Exhibition of the New Inna Contemporary Art Space, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, CN 2014 Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, CN 2014 HKEX Asian Experimental Video Festival, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN 2014 EXIM Macao Experimental Video Exhibition, Ox Warehouse, Macao, CN 2014 Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Espace Culture, ADPEI, Marseille, FR 2013 China-Asean Art Biennale, ASEAN Culture Square Museum , Nanning, CN 2013 Beijing Independent Film Festival, Beijing, CN 2013 China Independent Film Festival, Nanjing, CN 2013 Taipei Digital Art Festival, DAC Digital Art Center, Taipei, TW 2013 New Voice Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, CN Awards 2015 Prix Special NUMERO 23, Prix Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, FR 2014 Sliver Prize, Washington D.C. Chinese Film Festival, Washington D.C., US 2012 Gold Prize, Lin Fengmian Scholarship, Hangzhou, CN Collections CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN Arario Museum in SPACE, Seoul, KR Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, CN |