Zhang Wei Zhang Wei, born in Shang Luo, Shaanxi, China in 1977, currently lives and works in Beijing. He has been awarded the Outstanding Photographer in 2019 Golden Panda Photography Awards, 2016 Prudential Eye Awards Contemporary Asian Art nomination, won the prize of Xitek 2013 New Photo Award of China and in the same year was selected in the Photography Annual Rankings. In 2011, he won the prize of the Top 20 of Chinese Cutting-edge Contemporary Photography Awards. In 2010, won the prize of The Global Times 2010 Artists Award Of The Year. In 2009, he was nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and in the same year won the prize of Lishui Photography Festival Award. Solo Exhibitions: "THEATER OF ILLUSIONS",A2Z Art Gallery, （Paris, France 2021） "Artificial Theater", Art & Public Cabinet PH, Geneva Switzerland and Centre de la Photographie (Switzerland, 2015), "Temporary Performers", the 6th Lianzhou International Photo Festival (Lianzhou, China, 2010). Group Exhibitions: "40 YEARS OF CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY" Kulangsu Center for Contemporary Art Xiamen（Fujian 2023 ), MOCP Museum of Contemporary photography (Chicago, 2019), "Asia in Asia – close by far away drums" Gyeongnam Provincial Museum of Art (Korea, 2019)，"Paris Photo" (Paris, France, 2018),The Photography Show Presented By AIPAD，(New York 2016), "Screen Refreshing/Labor" Art Busan, Jinhai Art Museum (Korea, 2014), Staging Encounters-Lianzhou Photo Festival (GuangDong2014), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre First Experimental Image Exhibition (Beijing 2014), Beijing International Photography Biennale(Beijing 2013), Turkey Istanbul Exchange Exhibition ( Istanbul 2013) , The 55th Venice Biennale Exhibition In Parallel (Venice 2013), The German Ruhr Biennale（Dortmund 2012）, Guangzhou International Photography Biennale（GuangDong 2009）, The Moscow Museum of modern art Chinese artists exhibition（Moscow 2009）. His works were collected by MOCP Museum of Contemporary photography，The Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection, Guangdong Museum of Art，GuCang Center of Contemporary Photography，Shanghai Center of Photography，Lishui Photography Museum，How Museum，Long Museums etc. Also, his works were reported by Le Temps, Spiegel.de, The New York Times, WIRED, and "francetvinfo" and some other main medias all over the world. www.zhangweiphoto.com