Wei Jinchun (b. 1995, Guangxi, China) is a photographic artist and university educator based in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. He received his master’s degree from the Department of Photographic Art at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. His practice is centered on photography and extends to installation and performance, exploring questions of self, family, and the histories and present realities of cities. His work has received a Critics’ Choice Award from LensCulture in 2024, Excellence Awards at the 5th and 7th 1839 Photography Awards, a finalist distinction in the Annual Independent Photobook Award at the 1st Pixel Photobook Awards, and an Outstanding Work Award at the 24th Pingyao International Photography Festival, among other honors. His photobook Tangshan was published by Danish publisher Snap Collective.
Awards
2025 Excellence Award, 7th 1839 Photography Award
2024 Critics’ Choice Award, LensCulture Critics’ Choice 2024
2024 Finalist, Annual Independent Photobook Award, 1st Pixel Photobook Awards
2024 Outstanding Work Award, College Exhibition, 24th Pingyao International Photography Festival
2024 Finalist, 13th Ant Photography Award
2023 Excellence Award, 5th 1839 Photography Award
2023 Excellence Award, Photography, 11th Academy Photography Award
2023 Outstanding Work Award, International Photography Exhibition, 6th China–ASEAN University Students’ Culture Week
2022 Bronze Award, Photography, 10th Academy Photography Award
Exhibitions
2025 Seeing and Being Seen — 7th 1839 Photography Award Winners Exhibition, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2025 Embodied Transformation and Multipolar Refractions, Kaleidoscopic Scapes: International Academic Photography Exhibition, 2025 Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui Guyanhuaxiang Art Center, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
2025 Presence and Resonance, 2025 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
2025 Identity of Photography, 2025 Incheon World University Photography Festival, Incheon, South Korea
2025 Unfinished Lands, Sheng Xin Art Center, Tianjin, China
2025 LensCulture New Discoveries at Photo London 2025, Somerset House, London, UK
2025 Festival Projections Programme, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2024 Leaving and Returning, 2024 FIAP World Photographers Conference, Art Museum of Lishui, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
2024 Self-Replication and Stylistic Migration, 2024 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
2024 Münchner Kammerspiele × Der Greif: Off to Elsewhere, Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany
2024 The Return of the Crevice — Solo Exhibition by Wei Jinchun, CICADA Creative Space, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
2024 Somewhere In Between, Art Space, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2024 Innocent Eyes, Baixu Studio, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2024 The Warmth of Family Bonds, Art Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
2024 As It Comes: My 2023 Photobook, OFPiX Studio Zine Space, Beijing, China
2024 Have a Nice Day — 5th 1839 Photography Award Winners Exhibition, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2023 2023 Image Journal, FUJIFILM X-SPACE, Shanghai, China
2023 Tangshan, 2023 Xishuangbanna Foto Festival, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
2023 Suspension and Appearance: 11th Academy Photography Award Exhibition, Art Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
2023 Tangshan, 2023 Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
2023 Return to Authenticity: 10th Academy Photography Award Exhibition, Art Museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
2023 Tangshan, 4th Shenyang International Local Image Art Festival, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
2021 798 Winter Photography Exhibition, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China
2021 If I Am Guilty, 2021 Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
2021 2020-2021ing, Opening Exhibition of Fengmian Image Space, Beijing, China