Pu Yingwei was born in 1989 in Taiyuan, Shanxi. He is an artist, writer, and curator whose practice addresses key issues of the contemporary world, including collective memory, personal history, utopia, identity, and geopolitics. His work examines how individual experience intersects with broader historical and political structures.

Pu Yingwei’s work has often been described as conceptual art driven by a strong utopian impulse. He treats multiple media and identity narratives practiced in the public sphere as a form of comprehensive mobilisation, using art as a tool to question ideological structures and imagined futures. His thematic concerns consistently return to questions of memory, identity, and political imagination, positioning utopia not as a fixed goal but as a critical lens through which existing systems can be examined.

In 2013 he obtained his BFA from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (Oil Painting Department) in Chongqing, in 2016 he studied at E.N.S.B.A. (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts) in Lyon and in 2018 he received his D.N.S.E.P., (MFA with honours). In 2012 he was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize. He lives and works between Beijing, China and Lyon, France.

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