My ambition is to let my work have a life of its own.
		Dr. Weimin He   Artist printmaker lives and works in Oxford
Biographical Notes     Weimin He (b. 1964, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, China) Associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, member of Chinese Artists’ Association, began practicing art at an early age, studying drawing and painting when he was a teenager. He studied oil painting, Chinese ink painting and history of art in the Harbin College of Art where he was awarded a B.A. degree in 1986. From1988 to 1991, he studied printmaking under Prof. Quan Xianguang and Lu Tan at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Northeast China, and obtained his M.A. degree in 1991. Following on in the same year he worked as a professional artist in the Institute of Art in Heilongjiang Artists’ Association, until he was awarded the Muban Foundation Scholarship (now The Muban Educational Trust in London) in the autumn of 1999, when he entered the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster to study printmaking. In 2005, under the supervision of Prof. David Barker and Dr. Alastair Herron, he was awarded a Ph.D. and started to work as the Christensen Fellow of Chinese painting at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Currently He works as artist-in-residence at the Oxford University Estates Directorate. His work spans a variety of techniques and media, including printmaking, ink painting, oil painting and seal cutting. He has also acted as curator of a number of exhibitions of Chinese art. His artworks are in many public and private collections, including The British Museum and The China National Gallery.

                                                                                             

 

				Curriculum Vitae
Education	October 2000 – December 2005			Ph.D. in Fine Arts  University of Ulster , Belfast , Nortern Ireland
	October 1999 – June 2000			Post-graduate Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts, University of Ulster , Belfast , Northern. Ireland
	September 1988 – July 1991			Master of Fine Arts Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang , China
	September 1982 – July 1986			Bachelor of Fine Arts Harbin Normal University , Harbin , China
Professional Experience	April 2009			Artist-in-residence, Oxford University Estates Directorate
	April 2008 – March 2009			Artist-in-residence, The Ashmolean Museum, University of  Oxford ,
	February 2005 – March 2008			Christensen Fellow of Chinese Painting, The Ashmolean Museum , University of  Oxford , England
	February – May 2004			Artist-in-residence, Queen’s University of Belfast , N. Ireland
	October 1991 – September 1999			Professional artist, Heilongjiang province Printmaking Institute, China
	January 1995 –			Permanent member of the Chinese Artists’ Association
Teaching experience	March 2002 – October 2004			Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast , N. Ireland
	October 2001 – March 2002			Chinese School , Belfast Mythology College , N. Ireland
	October 1998 – June 1999			Visiting Professor, College of Arts , Harbin Normal University , China
	September 1986 – June 1988			Mudanjiang Teacher’s Training College , China
Selected group exhibitions	October 2009		2nd Qijiang International Prints Exhibition, Chongqing, China
	December 2006		First Chinese print exhibition of black and white woodcut, The China National Gallery, Beijing
	November 2003		Chinese printmaking today – woodblock printing in China          1980 – 2000, The British Library, London
	September 2000		15th national prints biennial exhibition, Guangdong Art Gallery, Guangdong  Province, China
	September 1998		27th international Ex-libris exhibition, St. Petersburg , Russia
	April 1998		4th Sapporo international print biennial exhibition, Japan .
	October 1997		22th Slovenia international prints biennial exhibition, Slovenia .
	September1996		Portland international prints exhibition, Portland Art Museum , USA
	June 1996		26th international ex-libris exhibition, Prague , Czech Republic
	August 1994		8th national quinquennial art exhibition, Harbin , China
	October 1992		11th national print biennial exhibition, Yinchuan , China
One man/two person’s exhibition	November 2009 February 2010		Building the New Ashmolean - Drawings and Prints by Weimin He, The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
	November 2008 - March 2009		Know the white, keep the black - wood block prints by He Weimin, Arthur Probsthain Bookshop/Gallery, London
	June - July 2008		City Diary - 1987- 2007, prints and drawings by Weimin He Sotheby's Institute of Art, London
	March - April 2008		Wandering - ink paintings and woodblock prints by Weimin He, Ricefield Gallery, Glasgow
	June 2004		Through another’s eyes –  to sense and understand Northern Ireland -Woodcut prints by He Weimin, Linen Hall Library, Belfast , N. Ireland
	May 2004		An exhibition of works by He Weimin, Artist in Residence, Student Union, The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
	February 2004		Contemporary Chinese prints – an exhibition of He Weimin And Wang Bing’s woodcuts, Edgar Modern Gallery, Bath , England
	November 2002		He Weimin’s woodcuts and ink paintings, Newtownards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards, N. Ireland
	June 1991		Lithographs by He Weimin, LAFA Gallery, Shenyang , China
	December 1989		Shanbei in my eyes- Drawings by He Weimin, LAFA Gallery, Shenyang, China
Awards and Prizes	September 1999 - June 2003		Muban Foundation Scholarship, London
	October 2002		Heilongjiang province annual prints exhibition, Harbin , China , Gold medal
	October 2002		16th national prints biennial exhibition,  the Anhui Art Gallery, Anhui, China, Bronze medal
	November 1999		Lu Xun Prints Prize - A prize awarded by the Chinese Printmaker’s Association in 1991 for outstanding printmakers of the 1980s-90s.
	August   1999		9th China national quinquennial art exhibition, Chinese Art Research Institute Gallery, Beijing , Bronze medal
	July 1996		6th national Ex-Libris exhibition, Shanghai Museum of Art, China, Silver Medal
	April  1994		Third Sapporo international print biennial exhibition, Sapporo , Japan , Sponsors’ Prize
Collections	2007	The China National Gallery, Beijing – woodcut ‘In the Sunshine’
	2006	The Bradhury Centre in Belfast , N. Ireland - woodcut ‘In the Sunshine’
	2003	The British Museum - woodcut ‘Celebrating the Spring’
	Other collections: The University of Ulster in Belfast, The Linen Hall Library in Belfast, The Queen’s University in Belfast, The University of Hamburg, The Shanhai Art Museum, The Shenzhou Print Museum in Chengdu.
Lectures, talks and workshops	7 November, 2007 Chinese Prints collections in the Ashmolean Museum / my work, SOAS, University of London.   2 November, 2007 Contemporary woodblock printing workshop by Weimin He, The British Museum
	October, 2006, ‘Huang Binhong - Master of the 20th Twentieth Century Chinese Painting, An Illustrated Talk by Dr. He Weimin’, to coincide with the exhibition of collections by Michael Sullivan, The Oriental Museum, Durham , England
	April, 2006, ‘50 Years of Printmaking from the Black Earth, An Illustrated Talk by     Chinese Artist He Weimin’, to coincide with the exhibition of ‘Chinese Printmaking Today’, The Oriental Museum, Durham , England
Exhibitions curated	27th-30th October 2009 Qijiang International Printmaking Festival, Chongqing, China (co-curator).
	16 October 2007 – 24 February 2008 Chinese Prints 1950 – 2006 in the Ashmolean Museum – The Ashmolean Museum , Oxford
	26 July 2005 – 16 October 2005 The Mystery of Empty Space: Twentieth Century Chinese Painting, The Ashmolean Museum , Oxford
	April - 2005 – Sprint 2006 Ode to the Black Earth – A Tour Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Heilongjiang Province , The People’s Republic of China (as one of the curators, presented by the Mandarin Speakers’ Association), Ormeau Baths Gallery and others, N. Ireland
	28 June 2001 - 2 July 2001 Contemporary Chinese Art – Ink Paintings, Calligraphies, Prints and Paper-cuttings, (presented by the Mandarin Speakers’ Association), Waterfront Hall, Belfast , N. Ireland
Publications	Books He, Weimin and Vainker, Shelagh, ed., 2007, Chinese Prints: 1950 – 2006 in the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford : The Ashmolean Museum Press
	He, Weimin ed., 2001, Contemporary Chinese Art (exhibition catalogue), Belfast : The University of Ulster
	He, Weimin, Jin Hengling and others ed., 2000, A Fine Selection of International Prints, Harbin : Heilongjiang Fine Arts Publishing House (In Chinese)
	Articles   He, Weimin, 2007, Chinese treasure hunt Weimin He, the Ashmolean’s Christensen Fellow of Chinese Painting, describes his journey through China to collect prints for the Museum’s collection (forthcoming) Printmaking Today, Dec. 2008, London, pp.22-23
	He, Weimin, 2007, ‘The Collection of Modern Chinese Prints’, No. 53, Summer 2007, The Ashmolean journal, Oxford: The University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, pp.22- 25
	He, Weimin, 2003, ‘Histories of the Major Art Academies in China’, in Farrer, Anne (ed.) Chinese Printmaking Today – Woodblock Printmaking in China 1980 – 2000, London, The British Library Press, pp.190 – 195
	He, Weimin, 1999, ‘The Third Generation Printmakers from the Great Northern Wilderness School ’, No.3, Art Circle (Meiyuan, journal of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts) Shenyang : Liaoning Art Publishing House, pp. 25 – 26. (in Chinese)
	He, Weimin, 1997, ‘Rethinking the Past and the Future: My View of Printmaking in Heilongjiang Province ’, in He, Weimin (ed.) Heilongjiang Art Journal, Special Issue, Harbin : Heilongjiang Provincial Artists’ Association. pp. 25-35. (in Chinese)
	He, Weimin 1991, ‘My View on Lithographic Language’, Art Circle (Meiyuan, journal of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts), Issue No. 4, Shenyang : Liaoning Art Publishing House, pp.14 – 16. (in Chinese)
Selected published artwork	In books Family Transport (Woodcut by Weimin He) – in Barker, David, 2005 Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking, London : A&C Black, p. 24, 25, 68.
	Celebrating the New Year (Woodcut by Weimin He) – in Farrer, Anne (ed.) 2003 Chinese Printmaking Today – Woodblock Printmaking in China 1980 – 2000, London : The British Library Press, p. 106.
	In journals Celebrating the New Year (woodcut by Weimin He) – in Desmet , Anne (ed.) 2003 Printmaking Today, Vol. 12, no. 4, 2003; London, p. 5.
	City Diary I (woodcut by Weimin He) - Wang Zhong ed., 1997 Art (Meishu), Issue No.1,1997, Beijing : Chinese Artists Association the Art Publisher, p. 66. (in Chinese)
	Other lithographs/woodcuts by Weimin He (From 1994 to 2004) – in Qi Fengge ed., Chinese Printmaking, No. 2, 9, 11,14,18,19, 28, Beijing : People’s Fine Arts Publishing House (page numbers are not listed) (in Chinese)