Hu Wei, born in 1989 in Dalian, graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department in 2012, and obtained his MA in Fine Art at Dutch Art Institute in 2016, currently lives and works in Beijing. Working in a variety of media including film making, installation, printed images, performance and drawing, Hu Wei explores the precarious relationship between labour, affect, and value judgments in different political and economic environments, technological conditions, and events.