ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI

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

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 9^th 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: 2^nd 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

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

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

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

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