Wu Weishan, male and of Han nationality, was born in January 1962. Currently, he serves as Director of the National Art Museum of China, Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association, Deputy Director of the Committee for the Promotion of  Professional Ethics of Literary and Art Workers of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Deputy Director of the National Committee on Art Education of the Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of the National Steering Committee for Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, a member of the National Textbook Committee, Chairman of the Chinese Urban Sculpture Artists Association. He is a second-level professor of Arts, a doctoral supervisor of Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the Chinese National Academy of Arts, and a chief supervisor of PKU-NAMOC post-doctoral research station. He receives a special allowance from the State Council.

His outstanding achievements have earned him academy memberships in France, Italy, Russia, and Ukraine. He earned an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Inje University of Korea, and was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Arts by the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen. He earned a Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an Honorary Doctor of Humanities at Macau University of Science and Technology. His awards include the Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Arts, the Francysk Skaryna Medal, Belarus’s highest cultural honor personally signed by the President of Belarus, the Michelangelo Award, the first China Art and Culture Prize, recognition as a “Artist with High Moral Virtue and Artistic Achievements of China,” the “Brilliance of China: Person of the Year,” and the 2021 Excellent Duty Performance Award for Members of the CPPCC National Committee, among other international and domestic accolades.

As the pioneer of the “Xieyi Sculpture Theory,” Wu has published over ten monographs and books which have been translated into multiple languages. His nearly 600 artworks are displayed in museums and squares worldwide. His solo sculpture exhibitions have toured major institutions world-wide, including the National Museum of China, the United Nations Headquarters, the National Museum of Italy (Palazzo Venezia), the Royal Academy of Arts in the UK, as well as other major museums in France, Japan, and South Korea. The Nanjing Museum features a dedicated “Wu Weishan Sculpture Hall”, and South Korea hosts a “Wu Weishan Sculpture Garden”. His notable works include Karl Marx in Germany, the large-scale sculpture Centenary Monument in France, the large-scale group sculpture Confucius and Socrates: An Encounter in Greece, the large-scale group sculpture A Dialogue Across the Time — Leonardo da Vinci and Qi Baishi in Italy, as well as Flag and Marx and Engels in the Museum of the Communist Party of China, Confucius in the National Museum of China, In the Pursuit of Wisdom — Confucius Asking Tao from Lao Tzu in the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the group sculptures in the Xiangshan Museum of Founding of New China, the group sculptures in the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, and the Long March Group Sculptures.