Deng Wei, born in 1978 in Shimen, Hunan Province, is of the Tujia ethnic group. As a graduate of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Deng now serves as a teacher at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts.
Deng Wei is an artist with "worldly humor". His works are full of "teasing" and "flirting" with acrimony. He broke away from the charming temperament and impressive skills of academicism, and challenged the mundane reality from the perspectives of the underclass and outsiders, with a concern for the lower-class people in his visual narrative. His works reflect the result of the entanglement between many factors such as the current physical experience, the history and the internal structure of painting. He pays attention to the visual logic of painting - the escaped part (or in other words, the left out part) in the process of completing the narrative, the existence of which gives painting the "legitimacy" in the field of contemporary art.
Deng Wei's recent exhibitions include: Comedy of Painting, PIFO Gallery, Beijing (2024); Zhàng: Deng Wei Solo Exhibition, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan (2021); Deng Wei’s Solo Exhibition, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan (2018) and so on.