饶维懿 Rao Weiyi China, b. 1993

Rao Weiyi (b. 1993) was born in Hunan Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree, and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a Master's degree in 2020. Rao is one of the representative emerging artists of the younger generation, and his awards include:  the Porsche Research Scholarship (2020), the Silver Award of the 3rd Powerlong Art Award (2020), The Gift Nomination Award of the School of Fine Arts of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (2020), the 10th New Star Art Award TOP100 (2019) etc.. He transforms the unique texture of web images into an experimental painting language, highlighting the visual logic of fragmentation from the lack of clarity, collage, and absurdity unique to web images. At the same time, he uses painting to restore the electronic texture of the image, replicating the visual characteristics of the pixel with airbrush, brushstrokes, and paint, bringing about different combinations of colors, textures, and compositions, thus transforming the paintings into a kind of creative visual “replica”.