Wenjun Fu

A Chinese visual artist celebrated for his provocative, unique use of digital photography, Fu Wenjun creates art that both reflects and challenges our understanding of the modern world. The Chongqing-born creator trained in oil painting at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute before turning his focus to photography, where he developed his iconic Digital Pictorial Photography style as a way to express more complex ideas than traditional documentary style allowed. Combining aspects of modern Western and traditional Chinese art through digital experimentation on photographs, Fu Wenjun pioneered the use of digital technology to stretch the boundaries of photographic art. His Digital Pictorial Photographs conjure elements of calligraphy, oil painting, and sculpture ranging from figurative to abstract, simultaneously exploring tradition and technology’s effects on human life. In 2017, the National Art Museum of China presented a solo exhibition of Fu Wenjun’s work, titled Harmony in Diversity: Fu Wenjun’s Digital Pictorial Photography Exhibition, which included two Digital Pictorial pieces collected by the museum, Nepotism and Thought Reading No.5, among the exhibited works. Sought after by top museums and collectors around the world, from the...

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020, “Mind Follows the Heart: Fu Wenjun Exhibition”, Art Bund Puxi Museum, Shanghai;
2019, “Again Enter the Scene --- Fu Wenjun Digital Pictorial Photography Exhibition”, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China;
2019, “Digital Brush: The Photographic Process of Fu Wenjun”, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;
2018, “Is It Photography – Fu Wenjun Digital Pictorial Photography Solo Exhibition”, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, USA;
2017, “Fu Wenjun: Ways of Xieyi Presented in Digital Pictorial Photography”, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China;
2017, “Introspection of Soul. Artistic Expression in the Digital Pictorial Photography of Wenjun Fu”, Museu Europeu de Arte Moderno, Barcelona, Spain;
2017, “Harmony in Diversity --- Fu Wenjun’s Digital Painting Photography Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China;
2015, “Thoughtful Images --- Fu Wenjun’s Abstract Photography Exhibition”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China;
2015, “Photographic Narrative --- Fu Wenjun’s Conceptual Photography Solo Exhibition”, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA;
2010, “Show of Formality”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China;
2010, Show of Formality II --- Move the Old Summer Palace 14...