Join us for the "Workshop with Peng Wei: Ink Narratives & Multimedia Practice" by the internationally recognised ink artist featured in the Ink Subversion: Through Gender Lenses exhibition. This workshop presents a unique opportunity to delve into the realm of Chinese ink art and gain invaluable insights from the master of the craft.

Peng Wei is an internationally renowned Chinese contemporary ink artist. Her creative works are rooted in the traditions of Chinese painting and calligraphy while she subverts the ideas from the past, forges connections with the present, and interrogates contemporary issues of gender, women, and identity. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan province, she currently lives and works in Beijing. She holds a Master’s degree in Aesthetics from Nankai University. She is currently HKBU Institute of Creativity Distinguished Visitor (2023-24). Peng has held solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art (2022), Guangdong Museum of Art (2020), TKG Foundation for Arts & Culture, Taipei (2020), Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (2019), Museum of History, Taipei (2015), etc. She has participated in large contemporary art exhibitions in Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. She also received international art awards, e.g., The APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2014 by the Singapore Art Museum. Peng’s artworks have been collected by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum, M+ Museum Hong Kong, the National Art Museum of China, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Guangdong Museum of Art, the He Xiangning Art Museum, the Beijing Fine Art Academy Museum, the Sigg Collection, the DSL Collection, and the Princeton University Art Museum, etc.

Yizhou Wang received a PhD in Chinese Art History from Heidelberg University and she is a Research Assistant Professor specialising in Art History and Theory at AVA. She specialises in Chinese paintings, gender studies, women artists, ecological art history, early East Asian photography on/by women, etc. Her dissertation titled “The Enticing Thatched Hut: Courtesans and Gendered Bodies in Jiangnan Pictorial Spaces (14th – 17th Centuries)” was awarded Suma Cum Laude. She has published peer-viewed articles in Ming Qing Studies, Research on Women in Modern Chinese History, Chung Cheng Chinese Studies, and edited volumes since 2014. She worked at the Calligraphy and Painting Department of the Palace Museum Beijing. In recent years, she has been active in curating exhibitions on contemporary art of Mainland China and Hong Kong, with special attention to contemporary ink art.