He Weimin

Chinese Woodblock Print Exhibition

                                 November 2008 - January 2009

Weimin was awarded the Muban Foundation Scholarship in the autumn of 1999, and he entered the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster to study printmaking. In 2005, he was awarded a Ph.D. and started to work as the Christensen Fellow of Chinese painting at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. His work spans a variety of techniques and media, including woodblock printmaking, lithography, ink painting, oil painting and seal cutting. His artworks are in many public and private collections, including The British Museum and The China National Gallery.

Weimin has curated several exhibitions, including last year's 'Chinese Prints 1950-2006' in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, for which he (with co-author Shelagh Vainker) wrote the catalogue. His own work has been exhibited in both China and Britain, recently at Sotheby's Institute and previously (November 2003-March 2004) at an exhibition 'Chinese Printmaking Today', curated by Anne Farrer, at the British Library, London.

Currently, Weimin is working in the Ashmolean Museum as Artist-in-Residence, to record the redevelopment of Britian's oldest museum through his drawing and woodblock printmaking, The work he is doing will lead to a solo exhibition in the Museum at the end of 2009 when it is reopened to the public.

Weimin He (b.1964, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, China) began practicing art at an early age, studying drawing and painting when he was a teenager. From1982 to 1986, 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 at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Northeast China, and obtained his M.A. degree. In the same year he worked as a professional artist in the Institute of Art in Heilongjiang Artists’ Association.