WEI Tao’s practice is consistently grounded in a sustained inquiry into states of existence. Rather than constructing meaning through explicit symbolic systems, his work tends to operate through the relational dynamics between abstract structures such as space, time, gravity, and memory, enabling viewers to re-perceive forces that resist definition yet continuously shape lived experience.
He is particularly attentive to how things, once detached from their original contexts, can be re-seen in a condition approaching “pure presence.” His works often emerge at the threshold between reality, perception, and concept, where adjustments in scale, structure, and modes of viewing temporarily suspend language, memory, and time from their functional definitions, transforming them into experiences closer to affect and perception themselves.
b. 1991, Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China
Lives and works in Beijing
Education
2020, Master's degree in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2016, Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
2026, How to Weight Your Time? , Xi Gallery, Fujian, China
2025, A Vector Comma, BONIAN SPACE , Beijing, China
Group Exhibitions
2026, Break——Watching and Creating Between Profession and Art, Shanghai Meibo Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2025, Rising Experience, Songli Art & Tech Culture Creative District Atrium Space, Beijing, China
2025, Practice in Becoming, Roundabout Art Center, Beijing, China
2025, No Answer Move On, INDEX, Beijing, China
2023, Let's Entertain, TIMES ART MUSEUM, Chongqing, China
2022, Power, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
2019, New Media Strategy After the Goal of Science and Technology is Blurred, Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, China
2019, The 5th Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
2019, Light, SVA Chelsea Gallery, NYC, USA
2019, Cross-Cultural Practice: Recent Works by Chinese Artist in New York, New York City College of Technology, NYC, USA
2019, The OCULUS, Asian Cultural Center, NYC, USA
2016, 3rd CAFAM Biennial-Negotiating Space: I Never Thought You Were Like That, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Art Fairs
2026, Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, BONIAN SPACE, Beijing, China
2021, Westbund Art & Design, Shanghai, China
Publications
“Comma Project” by WEI Tao, published in Domus, Italy, May 2026
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WEI Tao Comma Project Featured in Domus Magazine, May 2026 Issue
Domus May 14, 2026Cover of Domus , May 2026 issue Wei Tao’s project Comma Project has been published in the May 2026 issue of the international architecture and...Read more -
WEI Tao Presents Residency Project "How to Weigh Your Time?" at Xi Gallery
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魏涛:逗号,或关于最小形式的思考
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