Casey Wei

Casey Wei (born 1985) is a Vancouver based artist working on multidisciplinary art, film and music.

Life Casey Wei was born in 1985 in Shanghai. She finished her MFA degree in SFU in 2012 and made her first film Murky Colors which was based on her father Menjin Wei’s novel. In 2014, her video work Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子 (2014) was screened in The Cinematheque as part of the DIM cinema program. In Wei’s film, she explored the relationship between family, memories and history by collaging self-shoot and appropriated footage.

Work Casey Wei currently works at the VIVO Media Arts Centre as Video Out Distribution and Outreach, 2020 She is a co-founder and contributor of STILLS: moving image tract with Steffanie Ling,

Art practice Started in film making, Wei has gone on to work across disciplines such as music, art and performance. In 2015, she started the label Agony Klub which includes music and printed matter under the framework of “popularesoteric”, as a space to push the boundary between rock show and gallery. In 2017, Casey Wei held an event called Karaoke Video Maker Free Store that provided music video making for visitors. In 2025, Wei was awarded the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize by The Polygon Gallery.

Selected performative art Kingsgate Happenings: Kingsgate Happening is an event held by Casey Wei near Kingsgate Mall that happened across June in 2014, serving as part of the dialogue between Western Front, local artists and the Kingsgate Mall. The documentation of the event reflected the Vancouver art and music scene. M:ST 10 Residency: This is a happening event that took place in Thailand within the M:ST 10 Performative Art Biennial. Casey Wei performed, lectured and traveled throughout Thailand from November 17 – December 14, 2019.

Selected Film Murky Colors,

Selected Publication Ozu's Seasons, Edition of 100, Printed & bound by Colour Code, December 2017

Selected Event Screening of Vater und Sohn/Father and Son/父与子, The Cinematheque, the Cinematheque’s DIM program, Vancouver 2014 Karaoke Video Maker Free Store, The Cinematheque, Vancouver, 2018

Curator Art rock?, Vancouver, 2015