Born in 1973 in Luoping, Yunnan Province, China. / Lives and works in Beijing and Kunming.
Lecturer at the Sculpture Department of the Yunnan Arts Institute, Chen Changwei taps into Chinese traditions to reinvent the signs of the Chinese horoscope. His style is daring and original with surrealist animal heads forming huge symbolic totems full of humor. Besides his participation in many important exhibitions held in museums in China and abroad, in 2005 he organized the First International Sculpture Festival in Kunming.