艾未未（1957年8月28日－），中国艺术家，曾在美国居留与工作，建筑设计师、社会评论员、文化评论员。诗人艾青之子。在当代艺术方面，被喻为中国头号领导人物[1]。现任中国艺术文件仓库艺术总监。[1]
他曾为电视剧《北京人在纽约》担任副导演，并在2008年北京奥运会担任国家体育场“鸟巢”的设计顾问[1]。
艾未未为艾青与高瑛两位诗人之子，1957年于北京出生[1]。其后文化大革命，一家三口被送往新疆劳改。艾在新疆居住五年。
1981年到1993年，艾定居美国，主要居于纽约。
其妻为路青。
艾未未在2008年12月5日发起了公民调查自愿者活动，公民调查是对512大地震遇难学生的具体数据的（学校、姓名、年龄、班级、家庭住址、家长联系方式）调查活动，活动的宗旨是"事实、责任和权力"。
艾未未在其新浪的博客（blog.sina.com.cn/aiweiwei）里陆续公布了调查到的因地震死亡的具体的学生名单，但这些数据不久后便被管理方删除。目前这些数据和相关文章可以从google论坛——公民调查（http://groups.google.com/group/xuesheng512/topics ） 或是艾未未的搜狐和网易博客获得。
2009年六·四事件20周年前夕的5月29日凌晨，艾未未的新浪、搜狐和网易博客几乎同时被彻底关闭，但艾未未在国家防火墙之外的牛博国际站博客未受到影响。
2009年，艾未未工作室拍摄的纪录片《老妈蹄花》，记录艾未未去成都为谭作人案作证的过程中的经历。
Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未), born in 1957 in Beijing, is a leading Chinese artist, curator, architectural designer, cultural and social commentator and activist [1][2]
Born in Beijing, his father was Chinese poet Ai Qing, who was denounced during the Cultural Revolution and sent off to a labor camp in Xinjiang with his wife, Gao Ying.[3] Ai Weiwei also spent five years there.[2] Ai Weiwei is married to artist Lu Qing.[3]
In 1978, Ai enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy and attended school with Chinese directors Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.[4] In 1978, he was one of the founders of the early avant garde art group the "Stars". The group subsequently disbanded in 1983.[5]
From 1981 to 1993, he lived in the United States, mostly in New York, doing performance art and creating conceptual art by altering readymade objects.[5] While in New York, he studied at Parsons School of Design.[6]
In 1993, Ai returned to China because his father took ill.[7] Back in Beijing, he helped establish the experimental artists' East Village and published a series of three books about this new generation of artists: Black Cover Book (1994), White Cover Book (1995), and Gray Cover Book (1997).[8]
Sichuan earthquake student casualties investigation
On December 15, 2008, Ai Weiwei started an investigation into student casualties in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The investigation aimed to compile a list of students killed in the earthquake by May 12, 2009, the earthquake's first anniversary.[19] As of April 14, 2009, the list had accumulated 5,385 names.[20] Ai published the collected names as well as numerous articles documenting the investigation on his blog which has been shut down.[21]
Ai Weiwei has felt uncomfortable in the head since returning from Chengdu, where he was beaten by the police for trying to testify for Tan Zuoren, a fellow comrade in investigating the shoddy construction and student casualties in the earthquake.
On September 14, 2009, Ai was diagnosed to be suffering internal bleeding in a hospital of Munich, Germany and the doctor arranged for emergency brain surgery immediately.[22] The Cerebral hemorrhage is believed to be linked to the police attack.[23][24]
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