Born in 1987 in Anhui Province, China, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, then in Milan.
In 2014 He Wei received the Laguna Prize at the Venice Arsenal.
Among his exhibitions, "Lost in a Nurse's Dream" (2017), "A Matter of Life and Death" (2015), "The Second Anhui Oil Art Exhibition" (2008) followed by "Zeitgeist" (2012).
He currently lives and works between Italy and China.