Jiang Weitao is a graduate of the Fine Art Academy of Shanghai. He has developed his abstract modernist technique by way of tradition. His work is a philosophical link between Chinese calligraphy, painting and poetry. He has a daily practice of repetitive writing that allows him to forget himself and liberate his strokes to develop stunningly rich paintings that glow with a lucid transparent veil of deep colour tones. It is no wonder that he strives to represent complexity with simplicity and at the same time stillness and movement in a Taoist contemporary abstraction.
Jiang Weitao
b. 1975 in Shanghai, China, and lives and works in Shanghai, China
2016 BigCi Residency Program, Australia
2010 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New Haven, USA
2006 Red Gate Gallery Residency Program
2001 B.F.A in Department of Oil Painting, College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Gap, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2011 New Haven, Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China
2007 Vortex, Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China
Art Document, 798 / Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 Shanghai Rhapsody, Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China
2005 Subconsciously, Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China
2004 Subconsciousness, Dianbo Gallery, Shanghai, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 “At Sea 70s” Young Artists Invitational Exhibition, China Art Museum, Shanghai,
China
2015 Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, Hong Kong
2014 Art 021, Shanghai, China
Surge Art Red Gate Summer Pop Up, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2012 Two Generations - 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 2012 Australian Tour:
City of Sydney Chinese New Year; Manning Regional Gallery; Damien Minton Gallery;
University of Newcastle Gallery; Melbourne International Fine Arts (MiFA); Linton &
Kay, Perth
2011 20 Years - Two Generations of Artists at Red Gate, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 Asian Art Fair, Miami, U.S.A.
Asian contemporary Art Fair, New York, U.S.A.
Red Gate Stars, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Different Perspectives, 798 / Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Asian Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, New York, U.S.A.
Altered States, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Young Artists of Excellence, Xu Hui Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2006 2006 New Shanghai: Young Artists’ Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art,
Shanghai, China
Color Your Life, Six Artists Exhibition, The Tolman Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Black on White, Studio Rouge, Shanghai, China
8 Faces, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2003 Shanghai Spring Art Salon, Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center,
Shanghai, China
2002 Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Chinese Communist Party,
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2001 Shanghai Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Fine Art Exhibition 2001, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Ford Foundation
Vermilion Art
Melco Crown Developments Ltd.
The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
Han Jiyun Gallery
Shinsei Bank
Swire Group
Norway Queen
M. Danoff
Hugh Scogin
