Artist

Ai Weiwei

Chinese conceptual artist and dissident

1957 - today

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Ai Weiwei

His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2024). Ai Weiwei is the 30th most popular artist (down from 26th in 2024), the 333rd most popular biography from China (down from 284th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Artist.

Ai Weiwei is most famous for his work as an artist, architect, and social activist. He has been a vocal critic of the Chinese government and has been detained for his activism.

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Ai Weiwei's biography spans 54 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 66.63.

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Among Artists

Among artists, Ai Weiwei ranks 30 out of 139. Before him are Akira Yoshizawa, Banksy, Josef Albers, Émile Gallé, Onfim, and Edward Burne-Jones. After him are Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bernt Notke, Barnett Newman, Méret Oppenheim, William Wallace Denslow, and John Heartfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Ai Weiwei ranks 46. Before him are Peter North, Stefan Löfven, Kelly McGillis, Rumiko Takahashi, Bruce Beutler, and Masayoshi Son. After him are Ivo Josipović, Rinat Dasayev, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, Kevin McHale, Theo van Gogh, and Michael Cretu.

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In China

Among people born in China, Ai Weiwei ranks 333 out of 2,131. Before him are Duan Qirui (1865), Princess Taiping (665), Yelü Chucai (1189), Meng Haoran (690), Lao She (1899), and Zhang Daoling (34). After him are Jia Xu (147), He Jin (135), Xun Yu (163), Gu Kaizhi (345), Gao Shun (200), and Mi Fu (1051).

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