Email: Shengwei010@tsinghua.edu.cn

Academic Title
Research Professor

Concurrent Appointments

·Deputy Secretary-General, Curatorial Committee, China Artists Association

·Editorial Board Member & Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Art Magazine, China Artists Association

·Standing Council Member & Deputy Director of Theory Committee, China Gongbi Painting Society

·Standing Council Member, Art and Society Research Committee, China Society for Anthropology of Arts

·Member, Fine Arts Evaluation Committee, China Social Sciences Evaluation Institute

·Expert Committee Member, Exhibition, Collection, and Promotion Committee, National Art Museum of China

·Academic Committee Member, Chinese Art Critics Annual Conference

·Deputy Director, Curatorial Committee, Beijing Artists Association

·Academic Committee Member, Beijing Institute of Contemporary Freehand Oil Painting

·Academic Committee Member, Beijing One Art Museum

·Academic Committee Member, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Research Directions

·Modern and Contemporary Art History

·Contemporary Art and Art Criticism

·Exhibition Curation and Management

·Printmaking and Print Culture

Academic Philosophy
Advocates a critical perspective and interdisciplinary methodologies to dismantle disciplinary barriers in Sino-global art historical studies, establishing intrinsic coherence in historical narratives spanning early modern, modern, and contemporary art.

Honors & Awards

·2024: Top 1% Highly Cited Scholar by CNKI

·2014: Second Prize, China Art Award for Theory & Criticism

·2010: YISHU Award for Critical Writing on Chinese Contemporary Art

·2009: Wang Senran Art History Award

Academic Output
Authored/Edited Books

·The Dao of Concepts: Proceedings of the 2018 International Sculpture Symposium (Executive Editor). Guangzhou: Flower City Press, 2021.

·Eternal Life: From Ancient Art to Artificial Intelligence (Editor). Tianjin: Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2021.

·Chinese Contemporary Art Through the Lens of Postcolonial Theory. Beijing: Culture and Art Publishing House, 2020.

·The Dao of Sculpture: Proceedings of the 2017 International Sculpture Symposium (Executive Editor). Beijing: Ethnic Photography Publishing House, 2018.

·Xia Peiyao Studies Before and After the Bopa Class: Dual Perspectives of Art History and Sociology (Co-author, First Author). Chongqing: Chongqing Publishing House, 2016.

·From Surrealism to Automatism: Motifs, Self-Narratives, and Interpretations in Su Xinping's Art. Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2014.

·The Logic Behind. Kunming: Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2014.

·Historical Displacement: A Study of Jean-François Millet. Tianjin: Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2013.

Select Peer-Reviewed Articles

·"AI Painting: Realities and Futures Through Three Lenses." China Literature and Art Criticism (CSSCI, AMI Core), no. 1, 2025.

·"The Outsider: Back Figures in Sun Zongwei’s Tibetan-Mongolian Paintings." Art Magazine (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Core), no. 9, 2024.

·"Itinerant Images: Printmaking, Publishing, and Printed Matter." Art Magazine (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Core), no. 3, 2023.

·"Image Circuits: Visuality, Culture, and Society." Art Research (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Core), no. 6, 2022.

·"1942: Art of Fighting China in America." Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Core), no. 4, 2022.

·"The Goddess’s Laurel: Tang Yihe, Rubens, and Allegories of Victory." Literature & Art Studies (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Top), no. 6, 2022.

·"To the Folk: Origins of Rural Reconstruction and Artistic Engagement." Art Research, no. 3, 2002.

·"Photography and Painting in Ta Kung Pao (1926–1937)." In Wu Hung & Chelsea Foxwell (Eds.), Photography and East Asia Art. Chicago: Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, 2021.

·"The Plow Team: Paintings Behind Marshall." Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Core), no. 1, 2021.

·"From ‘Ma Xunban’ to ‘Luo Xunban’: An Art History Interwoven Across Three Nations (1955–1962)." Literature & Art Studies (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Authority), no. 7, 2020.

·"Millet’s The Gleaners: From Christianity to Revolution." Art Observation (CSSCI Extended, PKU Core), no. 3, 2020.

·"First Glance: Constructing American Perceptions of Chinese Avant-Garde Art." Art Research (CSSCI, PKU Core, AMI Core), no. 3, 2019.

Major Curatorial Projects

·Continuum: 2024 Shenzhen Biennale of Artificial Intelligence Media Art, Shenzhen Artron Art Center, 2024

·Itinerant Images: Printmaking, Publishing, and Art Documentation, China Printmaking Museum, 2022

·Art as Corridor: 2022 Wuhan Biennale (Co-Curator), Wuhan Art Museum, 2022

·The Mobile Gaze: National Woodcut Association Collection, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, 2021

·Fluid Borders: Glocalized Chinese Contemporary Art, Hunan Provincial Art Museum, 2020

·Working Methods: Artists’ Time, Space, and Body, Beijing One Art Museum, 2020

·The Editorial Department: Information Collection, Organization, and Reproduction, Guangzhou 33 Art Museum, 2018

·Eternal City: Ivy Art Project 2018, Tianjin Binhai Art Museum, 2018

·Four Decades of Chinese Sculpture, Shenzhen Contemporary Art Museum, 2017

·21st National Print Exhibition, Chongqing Art Museum, 2015

·Makers: 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition (Co-Curator), CAFA Art Museum, 2015