EDUCATION

Professional Doctorate (fine art), The University of East London, UK

MA (fine art), College of Art and Design, Birmingham City University, UK

BA (fine art), Department of Fine Art, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

AWARDS

2025 Highly Commended, The Homiens Art Prize, New York

2025 The 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence (fine art – still life), International Color Awards, USA

2025 Honorable Mention (fine art – still life), International Color Awards, USA

2025 Shortlist (create-art), The LICC 2024 – London International Creative Competition, UK

2025 Official Selection (shoot-photo), The LICC 2024 – London International Creative Competition, UK

2025 Gold Winner (fine art), MUSE Photography Awards, New York

2025 Silver Winner (fine art), MUSE Photography Awards, New York

2025 Digital Manipulation Award, Black & White Magazine, USA

2024 Discovery of the Year (abstract – category winner), reFocus Awards – World Photo Annual, New York

2024 The 3rd Place Winner (professional/fine art - photomanipulation), Monochrome Awards, London

2024 Creative Commended (fine art), Siena Awards - Creative Photo Awards, Siena, Italy

2024 The Persona Art Honours, Contemporary Art Station, Barcelona, Spain

2024 People’s Vote Award (fine art), 1839 Awards, New York

2024 Honorable Mention (fine art), 1839 Awards, New York

2024 Honorable Mention (professional/fine art - photomanipulation), Monochrome Awards, London

2024 Honorable Mention (fine art - collage+effects), Annual Photography Awards, London

2024 Nominee (fine art - street), reFocus Awards – World Photo Annual, New York

2023 Platinum Winner (fine art), MUSE Photography Awards, New York

2023 The 2nd Place Winner (fine art - photomanipulation), Chromatic Awards, London

2023 Honorable Mention (fine art - conceptual), Annual Photography Awards, London

2023 Artistic Excellence Award - CFA Artist of the Year, Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France

2023 Honorable Mention (fine art), ND Awards, London

2023 Nominee (photomanipulation), The 9th Fine Art Photography Awards, London

2023 Nominee (conceptual), Refocus Awards – World Photo Annual, New York

2022 Silver Winner (fine art), New York Photography Awards, New York

2022 Honorable Mention (fine art), London Photography Awards, London

2021 Power of Creativity - Art Prize, awarded by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

2021 Silver Winner (fine art), MUSE Photography Awards, New York

2020 Shortlist (fine art), Siena Creative Photo Awards, Siena, Italy

2020 Finalist, The Art Bank Acquisition Programme, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2019 Nominee (photomanipulation), The 5th Fine Art Photography Awards, London

2019 Shortlist, The RPS International 162th Photography Exhibition, Bristol, UK

2018 Honorable Mention (digitally enhanced), International Photography Awards, Los Angeles

2018 Honorable Mention (fine art), ND Awards, London

2018 Honorable Mention (fine art - photomanipulation), Chromatic Awards, London

2017 The 1st Place Winner (fine art - photomanipulation), Chromatic Awards, London

2017 Honorable Mention (fine art - photomanipulation), Chromatic Awards, London

2017 The 3rd Prize Winner (fine art), International Photographer of the Year, London

2017 Honorable Mention (digital art), New York International Photography and Digital Art Contest, USA

2017 Nominee (photomanipulation), The 3rd Fine Art Photography Awards, London

2017 Finalist, The Taiwan Emerging Art Awards, Taiwan

2016 The 2nd Prize Winner (fine art), International Photographer of the Year, London

2016 Nominee (fine art), Photogrvphy Grant, London

2016 Nominee (fine art), La Grande PHOTO International Awards, New York

2016 Finalist, The Taiwan Emerging Art Awards, Taiwan

2016 Honorable Mention, Kaohsiung Awards, Taiwan

2015 The 3rd Prize Winner (photomanipulation), The 1st Fine Art Photography Awards, London

2015 Honorable Mention (fine art), ND Awards 2015, London

2015 Honorable Mention (digitally enhanced), International Photography Awards, Los Angeles

2015 Finalist, The RPS International 158th Print Competition, Bath, UK

2014 Finalist, The AOP Photography Awards & Expo 2014, London

2014 The 1st Prize Winner (creative flair), Better Photography – Photograph of the Year Award, Australia

2014 Special Jury Prize, Kaohsiung Awards 2014, Taiwan

2014 Honorable Mention (digitally enhanced), International Photography Awards, Los Angeles

2014 Finalist, Photographer’s FORUM – Best of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

2014 Finalist, The Art Bank Acquisition Programme, The Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2013 Honorable Mention (digitally enhanced), International Photography Awards, Los Angeles

2013 Finalist, The RPS International 156th Print Competition, Bath, UK

2013 Finalist, The Young Artist Collection Project, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2012 Jury Award of Merit (digital experiment), The Grand Prix de la Découverte, Paris, France

2012 Finalist, The Lumen Prize – International Award for Digital Fine Art, UK

2012 Runner-Up (digital fine arts), Creative Quarterly 29, New York

2009 Finalist (still image), The International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario, Argentina

2003 Finalist, ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young Art, ArtLink Inc. & Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, Israel

2002 Finalist, International Digital Exhibition and Awards, Association of Photographers, London

2002 Finalist, Drawings for All 2002, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, UK

2001 Finalist (painting), The Peterborough Prize 2001, Peterborough, UK

2001 Finalist, First RWA Open Painting Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

2001 Finalist (drawing), The 10th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan

1999 Honorable Mention (painting), The 26th Taipei Art Prize, Taiwan

1996 Winner (painting), Front Page Competition, The Art Paper of Daler~Rowney, UK

1995 Special-Mention Award (painting), International Art Competition, The Reader’s Digest, Hong Kong

1992 The Ministry of Culture Award, Taiwan

EXHIBITIONS

2025 ‘Monochrome’, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK

2024 ‘I Wonder if You Can’ – Siena Creative Photo Awards Exhibition, Siena, Italy

2024 ‘Still Life’, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece

2024 ‘Surreal’, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK

2024 ‘Still Life’, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK

2024 ‘Street’, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK

2024 ‘Darkness Falls’, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK

2024 Paris Cultural Olympiad – Taiwan Pavilion, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France

2024 The Grand Exhibition of New Taipei City Artists, New Taipei City Arts Centre, Taiwan

2023 Sovicille Creative, Siena Awards Photo Festival, Italy

2023 'Altered Images', The Centre for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA

2023 MUSE Photography Awards – Virtual Exhibition, IAA Global

2022 The Magic Gallery – My Wonderlands, YellowKorner – Taipei, Taiwan

2020 ‘The Fantastic Garden of Delights’ (solo), KGI Bank – New Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2020 Platform - Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Avocado Art Lab, Taipei, Taiwan

2020 Wanderlost, Hyatt Regency (curated by Daylighted, Inc), Long Beach, CA, USA

2020 Permanent Collection, Hotel Zephyr (curated by Daylighted, Inc), San Francisco, USA

2020 Celebrating Life, Pullman Hotels & Resorts (curated by Daylighted, Inc), San Francisco Bay, USA

2020 Celebrating Life, Park Central Hotel (curated by Daylighted, Inc), San Francisco, USA

2019 ‘Modern Garden of Joys’ (solo), Farglory Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan

2019 Surreal Dreams, Ness by D-Ocean (curated by Daylighted, Inc), La Réunion, France

2019 Permanent Collection, Pink Onion (curated by Daylighted, Inc), San Francisco, USA

2019 International Roster of Emerging Artists, PARISOMA (curated by Daylighted, Inc), San Francisco, USA

2019 Stories + Dreams, Aloft Hotel Chicago (curated by Daylighted, Inc), IL, USA

2019 My Wonderlands, YellowKorner – Pompidou, Paris, France

2019 The Taoyuan City Artists’ Exhibition, City Museum of Modern Art, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2018 ‘My Wonderlands’ (solo), Chinese Culture University Hwa-Kang Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 Beyond Limits - IPA Best Show X Formosa's Photo Elites, The Pier-2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2017 The Taiwan Emerging Art Awards Exhibition, Taichung City Seaport Art Centre, Taiwan

2017 The Taoyuan City Artists’ Exhibition, Art Galleries for Department of Cultural Affairs, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2017 The Taoyuan City Artists’ Exhibition, Art Galleries for Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan

2017 Chong-Hong Construction x Art Bank, Chong-Hong Culture & Education Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 The Taiwan Emerging Art Awards Exhibition, Taichung City Seaport Art Centre, Taiwan

2016 Kaohsiung Awards Exhibition, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2016 Dreams + Habitations - Young Artists Collection Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

2016 The 158th RPS International Print Exhibitions, The Old Truman Brewery, London

2016 Photomonth - East London International Photography Festival, The Old Truman Brewery, London

2016 The 158th RPS International Print Exhibitions, The Royal Albert Hall, London

2016 The 158th RPS International Print Exhibitions, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, UK

2016 The 158th RPS International Print Exhibitions, The Hive, Worcester, UK

2016 The 158th RPS International Print Exhibitions, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Warrington, UK

2016 The 158th RPS International Print Exhibitions, University of Derby, Derby, UK

2015 Window View of Life: Place, Environment and Identity, The Art-Bank Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

2015 Summer Art Festival, The Gallery of Live Forever Foundation for Aesthetic Education, Taichung, Taiwan

2014 The AOP Photography Awards & Expo, The Business Design Centre, London

2014 Kaohsiung Awards Exhibition, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2014 Young Art Taipei – Taipei International Contemporary Hotel Art Fair at Regent Taipei, Taiwan

2014 The 156th RPS International Print Exhibitions, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, UK

2014 The 156th RPS International Print Exhibitions, The Civic, Barnsley, UK

2014 The 156th RPS International Print Exhibitions, The Michael Heseltine Gallery, Oxford, UK

2014 The 156th RPS International Print Exhibitions, The Museum of Somerset, Taunton, UK

2013 The Lumen Prize Exhibition – International Award for Digital Fine Art, Gallery 27, London

2013 The Lumen Prize Exhibition – International Award for Digital Fine Art, The Space, Hong Kong

2013 The Lumen Prize Exhibition – International Award for Digital Fine Art, FQ Projects, Shanghai, China

2013 The Lumen Prize Exhibition – International Award for Digital Fine Art, Canary Wharf FCA, London

2012 ‘Fictional Painting’ (solo), madL Contemporary Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 The Taoyuan City Artists’ Exhibition, Art Galleries for Department of Cultural Affairs, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2010 ‘Any-Space-Whatever’ (solo), CYCU Art Centre, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2009 ‘Lyricism’ (solo), Safulak Art Village Gallery, Hsinshu, Taiwan

2009 ‘Sixteen Colours of Time’ (solo), New Taipei City Government’s Arts Gallery, Taiwan

2009 The International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario, Argentina

2008 ‘Romance than Fiction’ (solo), Art Gallery of Chiayi Railway Warehouse, Chiayi, Taiwan

2008 The 2nd Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennale, Arts & Culture Centre Taipei Tech, Taiwan

2008 The 2nd Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennale, Licence Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan

2006 Spread – New Media Art Show, Hwa-San Cultural Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2005 ‘Uncanny Ambiguity’ (solo), Pacific Cultural Foundation Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2003 ‘Mysterious Beauty & Beautiful Mystery’ (solo), UEL Docklands Sculpture Studio, London

2003 Ar2Go 2003, ArtLink on the Lake, Tel Aviv, Israel

2003 ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young Art, The Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2003 ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young Art, Sotheby’s Amsterdam Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003 ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young Art, MARS Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2003 Network A.D. Exhibition, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London

2003 Humanscape project – image-metaphor-narrative, King’s College Hospital Gallery, London

2002 ‘Empathic Beauty’ (solo), UEL Docklands Oscar-Bar Gallery, London

2002 International Digital Exhibition and Awards, Association of Photographers Gallery, London

2002 Harlech Biennale – International Exhibition and Exchange, Harlech, UK

2002 Drawings for All, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, UK

2002 next:stop, Strand Underground Station, London

2002 Network A.D. Exhibition, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London

2001 ‘Brushing or Sensible’ (solo), UEL East London Gallery, London

2001 The Peterborough Prize Exhibition, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough, UK

2001 First RWA Open Painting Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

2001 The 10th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

2000 The Sefton Open, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK

2000 Life - an exhibition of contemporary photography, Ark-T Centre & Gallery, Oxford, UK

1999 The 26th Taipei Art Prize Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

1998 'Parallel’ (solo), Pacific Cultural Foundation Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1997 Salon Young Artists Show, Howard Salon Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1997 Formosa & Britain, The Gallery of the City Living Club of Art Studies, Taipei, Taiwan

1996 BIAD MA Interim Group Show, Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK

1996 Midlands Annual Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, Dudley, UK

1994 The International Chinese Brush Painting Seminar & Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1994 The 49th Taiwan Annual Arts Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan

1993 The 20th Taipei Art Prize Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

PUBLICATIONS

MY WONDERLANDS : Contemporary Digital-Still Art Practice in the Pictorial, Theatrical and Cinematic Perspectives – critical review + work portfolio, ISBN：978-957-43-6393-3, Taipei, Taiwan (2019)

Landscapes of Aura: The Practice of the Mute-Abstract Animation for Contemporary Artist – Critical Review + Works + DVDs 2006~2010, ISBN 978-957-41-8237-4, Taipei, Taiwan (2011)

Mysterious Beauty’ and ‘Beautiful Mystery’: Fictional Landscapes in My Painting and Digital-Still Drawing, Doctorate Thesis, The University of East London, London, UK (2003)

The Collection of Chinese Brush Painting by Vinci M. Weng 1991~1994, Taipei, Taiwan (1994)

INTERVIEWS + TALKS

MUSE World (Inspirations + Stories) – ‘Interview with Vinci Weng of VINCI WENG Studio for Digital Fine Art’, published by Muse.World + IAA Global Awards, New York, USA (2023)

‘A Surreal Fantasy Constructed through Photomontage’ - A Talk hosted by Taichung Photographic Society X Taichung City Dadun Cultural Centre, Taichung, Taiwan (2022)

The FLUX Review – ‘An Interview with Dr. Vinci Weng’, published by The FLUX Review, Edition 4, Spring 2021, ISSN: 2633-643X, pages 180~186, London, UK (2021)

‘Pictorial Imaginations in Contemporary Photography & Sharing by my Experience as a Gallery Artist of YellowKorner (Paris, France)’, A Talk hosted by Platform - Avocado Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Avocado Photography Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan (2020)

Super Artist’s Talk + Interview : Vinci Weng on Reconstructing Contemporary Post-Photography, A 60-minute television special produced by Beautiful Life Television (BLTV), Taipei, Taiwan (2020)

Artist’s Interview : Vinci Weng on ‘Photography as Painting Practice’, An online television programme produced by 1 IMAGE ART, Taipei, Taiwan (2019)

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

YellowKorner Art Photography, Paris, France (2018~2024)

ARTIST RESIDENCY

Harlech Biennale 2002 – International Artists’ Residency in Harlech, North Wales, UK (2002)

COLLECTIONS

The Art Bank, The Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (2014 / 2020)

Farglory Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan (2019)

The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK (2016)

The Association of Photographers Gallery, London, UK (2014)

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2013)

Steve + Chris Gaut, Truro, UK (2013)

Yo-Chang Art Museum, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (1992)

Donsan Gallery, Hsinshu, Taiwan (1994)

SELECTED PRESS + CATALOGUES

Monochrome Photography Awards Annual Book 2024 (published by Monochrome Photography Awards Team / 2025)

Persona Art Honours 2024 (published by Contemporary Art Station – ICM, Barcelona, Spain / 2024 / page 150~151)

Chromatic Photography Awards Annual Book 2023 (published by Chromatic Awards Editorial Team / 2024 / page 65)

Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine (published by Circle Foundation for the Arts Press / No.36 / 2024 / page 118)

The Woven Tale Press – the literary and visual arts (published by Woven Tale Press LLC, New York, USA / ISSN：2469-5475 / Spring 2022 / pages 35~42)

INSIDE ARTISTS - international contemporary arts and culture magazine (published by Inside Artists, Brighton, UK / Issue 17 / Spring+Summer 2020 / pages 106~109)

Modern Garden of Joys – Vinci Weng, an essay by Dr. Shih-Wen Kung (published by the VISION – The Quarterly Journal, Farglory Museum, 2019 / Issue 16 / pages 30~31)

The 2019 Taoyuan City Artists' Exhibition (published by Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan City Government, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-05-9458-4 / pages206~207)

Vinci Weng Portfolio (published by ND Magazine, UK / Online Version / 2018)

Special Report for the Collections of the Art Bank Taiwan (published by Art Investment Magazine, Taiwan / 2017 / No.118 / pages 144~147)

The Beauty of Taoyuan – Collections of the Selected Artists for New Media Art 2017 (published by Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan City Government, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-05-2073-6 / pages 118~125)

The 2017 Taiwan Emerging Art Awards (published by Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taichung City Government, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-05-2971-5 / pages 84~85)

The 2017 Taoyuan City Artists’ Exhibition (published by Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan City Government, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-05-3121-3 / pages 228~229)

The 2016 Taiwan Emerging Art Awards (published by Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taichung City Government, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-04-9053-4 / pages 62~63)

The 2016 Kaohsiung Awards & Exhibition (published by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-04-8470-0 / page 90)

The RPS International Print 158 - Competition and Exhibitions Catalogue (published by The Royal Photographic Society / ISBN: 978-0-904495-10-2 / page 97 / Bath, UK / 2015)

Dreams + Habitations - NTMoFA Young Artist Collection Exhibition (published by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / ISBN: 978-986-04-6844-1 / pages 108~109 / 2015)

The Winner Coverage, Better Photography Awards: Photograph of the Year 2014 (published by Better Photography Magazine, Australia / ISSN: 1322-7785 / Issue: Summer 2015 / page 38)

The 2013 Young Artist Collection (published by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts / ISBN: 978-986-04-3752-2 / pages 118~119)

The 2014 Kaohsiung Awards & Exhibition (published by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-04-0712-9 / pages 72~73)

Photographer’s FORUM – Best of Photography 2014 (published by SERBIN Communications / page 180 / Santa Barbara, USA)

The RPS International Print 156 - Competition and Exhibitions Catalogue (published by The Royal Photographic Society / ISBN: 978-0-904495-07-2 / page 36 / Bath, UK / 2014)

Infinite Translation：2011 Taoyuan Artists’ Invitational Exhibition (published by Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan County Government, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-02-8743-1 / pages 204~205)

Zero Point Vibration：The 2009~2010 Yearbook of CYCU Art Center (published by CYCU Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan / ISBN: 978-986-7383-58-7 / pages 126~141)

The Cover Work of the Art Paper (published by Daler~Rowney Limited, UK / Spring Issue / 1996)

The Cover Work of the Reader’s Digest (published by Reader’s Digest Association Far East Limited, Hong Kong / 1995)