Born in 1985, Shuwei Liu is an artist living in Shanghai, where he works with photography and video. His works have been exhibited in Artefiera Bologna 2017, at the Power Station of Art, and at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre. He was a finalist in the Barcelona International Photography Awards in 2015, and in 2016 was a LensCulture Portrait Awards finalist. Liu received the Emerging Chinese Artist Award, which granted him a residency at Red Gate in Beijing. His works have been featured in the magazines Der Greif, GUP, LEAP, and Art World, among others. In May and June of 2017, he will be artist in residency at the Vermont Studio Center.