Artist

DING SHIWEI

Biography / Selected Works
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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: 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.
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Ding Shiwei, The Abyss Watchers No.1, 2019

Solo Exhibitions

2021    Solo exhibition, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN (forthcoming)
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    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
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

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