Artist

ロバート・ザオ・レンフイ ⁄ ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI

Born in Singapore, 1983


Lives and works in Singapore


 


Education 


2010     Masters (with Distinction) in Photography, Graduate Scholarship Program, London College of Communication, London, UK


2008      BA in Photography, Camberwell College of the Arts, University of the Arts, London, UK


個展

2022


The Forest Institute, Gillman Barracks, Singapore


 


2020


Robert Zhao Renhui: The Lines We Draw, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore


 


2019


The Lines We Draw, Yalu River Art Museum, Dandong, China


New Forest, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan


 


2018


Final Report of the Christmas Island Expert Working Group, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore


HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2017, BOSS Store Ngee Ann City, Singapore


 


2017


Christmas Island, Naturally, ShanghART M50, Shanghai, China


The Nature Museum, commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Arts, 72-13, Singapore


Christmas Island, Naturally, ShangART Singapore, Singapore


The Bizarre Honour, Chip Bee Gardens, Singapore


Singapore, Very Old Tree, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore


 


2016


The Natural History of an Island, DECK, Singapore


 


2015


A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia


The tree that fell, The Substation, Singapore


The Nature Collector, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China


 


2014


Flies Prefer Yellow, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA


Fake or Reality, Galarie Anzenberger, Vienna, Austria


A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy


The Last Thing You See, 2902 Gallery, Singapore


 


2012


The Institute of Critical Zoologists, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK


Living Proof, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand


 


2011


The Land Archive, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore


 


2010


The Whiteness of Whales, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan


 


2009


If a tree falls in the forest, The Substation, Singapore


グループ展

2022


Cuttings, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


Silent Spring, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany


The Natural History of an Island, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China


 


2021


Chengdu Biennale, Super Fusion, Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu


Posthuman Ensemble, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea


A Show About Nothing, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China


The New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2021, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan


What a caterpillar calls the end, the world calls a butterfly, Field Studies, Singapore


Tonight the Air is Warm, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, United Kingdom


Interspecies Futures, Center for Book Arts, New York, United States


ANTHROPOLOGY OF ICE, Fotograf Festival 11, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic


The Gift, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


 


2020


From the Mundane World, Launch Exhibition of He Art Museum, He Art Museum, Guangdong


In The Forest, Even The Air Breathes, GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy


Busan Biennale: Words at an Exhibition, an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea


Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing


The Seeds We Sow, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


 


2019     


Winter Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing


2219: Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum, Singapore


Singapore Biennale 2019, Every Step in the Right Direction, Gillman Barracks, Singapore


Observe, Experiment, Archive, Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, London, United Kingdom


Season 3, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA


The Time Tree, Fort Canning Park, Singapore


Quasi-Nature: Bio Art, Borderline and Laboratory, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, China


An Opera for Animals, 
Para Site
, Hong Kong


Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China


 


2018


The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia


Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem: Taipei Biennial 2018, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan


Two houses: Politics and histories in the contemporary art collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE, Singapore


Present Future, Supernormal, Singapore


Fotofestiwal 2018, Art_Inkubator, Łódź, Poland


Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge: 2nd Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China


PhotoESPAÑA, Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain


The 5th Onassis Fast Forward Festival,  15 Derigny St., Athens, Greece


OH! Emerald Hill, OH! Open House, Singapore


 


2017


Jakarta Biennale 2017, Gudang Sarinah Ekosistem, Jakarta, Indonesia


HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2017, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China


7th Moscow Biennale: “Clouds ⇄ Forests”, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia


Children’s Biennale: Dreams & Stories, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore


Traces of the Future: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


SUPER/NATURAL, Gajah Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia


On Sharks and Humanity, Parkview Museum, Singapore


Chobi Mela IX, Dhaka, Bangladesh


 


2016


Singapore International Photography Festival: The Archive as Conversation, National Library, Singapore


Why are we doing what we are doing ?, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia


Prudential Eye Awards Exhibition 2016, ArtScience Museum, Singapore


 


2015


No Boundary: An Exhibition featuring Singaporean Artists, ShanghART Gallery, Singapore


What it is about when it is about nothing, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore


Arles Discover Award Exhibition, Arles, France


 


2014


Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


The Origin of Beauty: Dramatic Nostalgia, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea


Ocean of possibilities, Noorderlicht Festival of Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Going, Going until I Meet the Tide, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea


Origins, Memories & Parodies, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea


Mapping Asia, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong


Truths, Facts, Fictions, Lies, PhotoIreland, Ireland


A time of dreams, Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow, Russia


Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?, Times Museum, Guangdong, China


Grandprix Fotofestiwal, Poland


Unearthed, S​ingapore Art Museum, Singapore


Ghost Nature, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinoi, USA


Projections Animalieres, La Box, Bourges at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Bourges, France


The Land Archive, 24/7, Sculpture Square, Singapore


Do you believe in Angels?, MO_Space, Manila, Philippines


 


2013


If the World Changed, Singapore Biennale, Peranakan Museum, Singapore


Photoquai 4, Museum de Branly, Paris, France


Novel Ecologies, Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia


The Artist, The Book and the Crowd, The Substation, Singapore


Living in the ruins of the 20th Century,​ University of Technology, Sydney, Australia


International Festival of Photography, Mineiro Museum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil


The Realm In The Mirror, The Vision out of Image, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China


Engaging Perspectives, New Art From Singapore, Centre of Contemporary Art, Singapore


President’s Young Talent Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


Edit, Image Phobia and Fetish, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China


Earth Works, PPOW Gallery, New York City, New York, USA


Adapting to the Anthropocene, UNESCO House, Paris, France


Going where, ShanghART Gallery, Singapore


Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore


Beast Bloom for Thee, Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia


Between Conversations, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore


 


2012


Terra Cognita, Noorderlitcht Festival of Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands


FutureMap, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK


Future­Proof, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


Hijacked III, Contemporary Photography from the UK and Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts,


Perth, Australia


 


2011


We who saw signs, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore


Territories of the real and unreal, Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia


Animal Talk, Jendela, Singapore


Right Here, Right Now, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK


Not too far away, 2902 Gallery, Singapore


 


2010


“Haven’t You Heard?”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong


When Species Meet: A gaze that is non­human, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland


Emerging Wave, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, South Korea


Art & The Law, M1 Fringe Festival, Jendela Gallery, Singapore


Cut 2010: New Photography from Southeast Asia, Parallel Universe, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur,


Malaysia, and Singapore


 


2009


A touch of violence, National Gallery of Arts, Tirane, Albania


Photocinema, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK


 


2008


We decided to go to the zoo but it was raining, Photo­Levallois Festival, Paris, France


受賞歴

2021


Excellence Award, New Cosmos of Photography 2021, Tokyo, Japan


 


2019


Finalist, 12th Benesse Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


 


2017


Finalist, HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2017, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China


 


2016


Nominee, Prudential Eye Awards


 


2014


Finalist, APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


 


2011


Deutsche Bank Award In Photography, University of the Arts, London, UK


 


2010


Young Artist Award, Singapore


 


2009


Arts Creation Fund, National Arts Council, Singapore


United Overseas Bank Prize, Painting of the Year Award, Singapore


 


2008


Honourable Mention, Photo­Levallois Festival, Paris, France


パブリックコレクション

National Museum of Singapore, Singapore


UBS Art Collection, UBS Global


Statoil Art Collection, Stavanger, Norway


Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA


UOB Art Collection, Singapore


Singapore Art Museum, Singapore


著書刊行物

2014


Altered Realities Robert Zhao, Katarzyna Majak, Archivo


The Origin of Invented Species Robert Zhao Renhui, Profiles by Sylvia Tsai, ArtAsiaPacific


 


2013


Enough Room to Fall, President’s Young Talents, catalogue, Tan Siuli


Speculative Everything, Aesthetics of Unreality, book, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, MIT Press


Misrepresented, The Design Society Journal No.6


Art Cities of the Future, book, Phaidon Press


Contemporary Photography in Asia, book, Prestel Publishing


Zhao Renhui: A Photographer’s Obsession with Animals, The Muse


 


2012


Art Forum, Openings, Essay by Jeffrey Kastner


Nature, Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel, book, MIT Press


LAND Journal, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore


Asian Art News, March/April, Exploring Artifice and Context, Interview by Steven Pettifor


Punctum, Issue 3, Essay by Lisa Botos


 


2011


Fotografia, Zhao Renhui, Essay by Katarzyna Perlak


 


2010


NY Arts, New York, Summer 2010, Voices, Artist’s Interview


Public art, Korea : June, Issue 045


Cabinet, Issue 38, Pulau Pejantan


The Straits Time, Life!Arts, Interview, The Japanese side of whaling, August 07


Art Forum, Best of 2010, December, Selected by Pauline J.Yao


 


2009


Extra 03, Feature, Antwerp FotoMuseum, The Zoo as Cinema


Portfolio Magazine, Contemporary Photography in Britain, Cover and feature, Issue 49


 


2008


L’oeil de la Photographie, France, Nov, Image of the Month


レジデンス

2017


NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore


 


2014


Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA


 


2013


Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore


 


2012


National Museum of Wales, Residency by Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK


Langgeng Arts Foundation, Residency on Dutch Colonial Archives


 


2011


Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand


The Arctic Circle Residency, Ffotogallery, Penarth, UK


 


2010


Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan