Vinci Weng

Dr. Vinci Weng, a distinguished artist and associate professor of fine art, has garnered attention for his innovative approach to visual storytelling. His work rethinks the concept of a ‘cinematographic’ picture, seamlessly blending East-West pictorial traditions while navigating the boundaries between realism and surrealism. Weng’s images transcend specific locations or venues, presenting a fantastical world of their own, characterized by an intriguing organization of fields, depths, scales, and colours. These fictional universes, often inspired by real-world elements, invite viewers into magical events and wonder tales of utopia, where natural and artificial realities coexist harmoniously. Weng does not use AI-generated tools nor stock images, instead relying solely on complex manipulations of his own photographic images captured on location. His ideas, planning, post-production, and photographs are all seamlessly integrated to achieve the visual strength of the final result. The working process is painstaking and often takes several months to produce a large-scale work. His work has been featured in awards/exhibitions at numerous international galleries, museums, and festivals, including Siena Awards Festival (Italy), Royal Albert Hall (London), Glasgow Gallery of Photography (UK), Association of Photographers Gallery (London), Business Design Centre (London), Royal West of England Academy (UK), Aberystwyth Arts Centre (UK), Blank Wall Gallery (Athens), YellowKorner Art Photography (Paris), Sotheby’s Amsterdam Gallery (Amsterdam), Centre for Contemporary Art MARS (Moscow), Centre for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins (USA), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), as well as being included in the RPS International Print Exhibitions from 2013 to 2016 (UK). He was awarded Digital Manipulation Award 2025 – Black & White Magazine (USA), Discovery of the Year at the reFocus Awards – World Photo Annual 2024 (New York), Monochrome Awards 2024 (London), Siena Creative Photo Awards 2024 (Italy), 1839 Awards 2024 (New York), The Persona Art Honours 2024 (Spain), MUSE Photography Awards Winners 2023~2025 (New York), Chromatic Awards 2017–2023 (London), Fine Art Photography Awards 2015~2023 (London), The Lumen Prize 2012 (UK), and The Peterborough Prize 2001 (UK), among others.