Faye Wei Wei

Faye Hoi Wing Wong (born 1994), known professionally as Faye Wei Wei, is an English painter. She was named one to watch by British Vogue and It's Nice That in 2018 and a hot name in the art world by The Sunday Times in 2021.

Early life Wei Wei was born in Tooting, South London to Hong Kong parents. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). She won the Cass Art Prize for graduating students. As of 2024, Wei Wei is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at Yale Art School.

Career After graduating, Wei Wei completed the Hoy Hoy residency. In 2017, Wei Wei had her debut solo exhibition at age 23 titled Anemones and Lovers at London's Cob Gallery. Dazed called her "London's dreamiest painter". In 2018, she had solo exhibitions at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester and the SADE Gallery in Los Angeles. She also did a joint display with Zoë Paul in Athens among other group exhibitions. In addition, Wei Wei contributed paintings to Hannah Weiland's Shrimps SS18 and RTW AW19 collections at London Fashion Week.

In 2019, Wei Wei was awarded a commission by the British Council Hong Kong and Phillips auctioneers to create an installation in Tai Kwun for the SPARK festival. She returned to Cob Gallery with the solo exhibition I've Always Been a Weeper at the Cinema.

Via Éditions Lutanie, Wei Wei's book Hooker's Green Lake was published in 2020. She also had a solo exhibition at Galerie Kandlhofer in Vienna; she would return in 2021 and 2022. The former titled Moon was synchronised with Sun at Isetan in Tokyo. Also in 2021, Wei Wei collaborated with Simone Rocha and H&M on a pop-up book.

In 2023, Wei Wei solo exhibited at Situations in New York and Alkinois Art Space in Athens. Wei Wei reunited with Éditions Lutanie for the publication of her monograph Portals, which collects her work over 14 years, in 2024.