Bi Rongrong
1982 Born in Ningbo, China
2005 College of Fine Arts of Southwest China Normal University, Chongqing, China, Chinese Painting, Bachelor’s Degree of Literature
2008 Art College of Sichuan University, Sichuan China, Chinese Landscape Painting, Master’s Degree of Fine Arts
2009 Exchange program at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, Philadelphia, USA, MFA Painting
2010 Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherland, MFA Painting, Master’s Degree of Fine Arts
Now live and work in Shanghai
Solo Exhibitions:
2020 In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2019 Pattern XI-∞, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2018 Fiction Landscape,Art Basel HongKong
2017 Wave, Shanghai Museum of Glass Park, Shanghai, China
2016 Fiction Landscape, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2016 Absolute, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2015 Tri-Images-A Drawing Being Produced, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2014 Manchester CMYK, solo project on Art 021 Art Fair, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2013 Converging Energies—Two Artists Solos by Bi Rongrong and Zhang Ruyi, V-Art Center, Shanghai, China
2012 Gas Station V–Two Solos by Bi Rongrong and Chen Tianzhuo, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 A Mural Project, Art De L’oisivete Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven, France
2011 Ideal & Useless Space, Bazaar Compatible Program #4, XiYiTang, Shanghai, China
2011 The Landscape is Called Sweet Faith, Museum aan de A7 (Rabobank Drachten), Netherlands
2010 When the Lines Turn into a Silhouette, stichting WEP,Groningen, Netherlands
Group Exhibition:
2020 Works from The Clouds-Celebrating 5th years of “Annealing” Project, Shanghai Museum of Glass Park, Shanghai, China
2020 Unconstrained Textiles: Stitching Methods, Crossing Ideas, Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong, China
2020 El Lisstzky’s Rooms, SurplusSpace, Wuhan, China
2019 City of Streams, Shatoujiao Free Trade Zone, Yantian, Shenzhen, China
2019 A Turing Moment, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2019 Encounter–Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Maoma warehouse, Shanghai Yangpu Riverside, Shanghai, China
2019 The Kind Stranger , UNArt Center, Shanghai, China
2019 Extreme Mix – Guangzhou Airport Biennial 2019, Guangzhou ariport resort, Guangzhou, China
2018 Rolling Snowball, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China
2017 Fantasy Creator, chi K11Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2016 ArtReview Asia Xian Chang Section, West Bund Art& Design Fair, Shanghai, China
2016 A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, United Kingdom
2016 WE- A Community of Chinese contemporary Artists, chi K11Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2015 The Affair of Painting, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands
2015 IVY ART 2015, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015 Collective Individualism II, Around Space, Shanghai, China
2015 The 2nd ‘CAFAM Future’ Exhibition: Observer-Creator•The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015 Creating For The Future: Thinking About The Unthinkable, the gallery exhibition of LEAP’s online & print show, Momentum, Berlin, Germany
2014 PRESENT-ING RECITAL LOUDER THAN PAINT, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2014 10th anniversary of Vanguard Gallery, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
2013 Studio, M50 Art Space, Shanghai, China
2013 Art That Heels, 2013 Elle 25th Anniversary Special Project, V-Art Center, Shanghai, China
2013 Ongerkend Young Masters @ Auction, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Waves, Bund 18 Temporary Art Space, Shanghai, China
2012 Zone Autonome Mutualisee, Vivarium, Biennale Off-Rennes, Rennes, France
2012 Berliner Liste art fair, Pantocrator gallery/ La Pan, Berlin, Germany
2012 Swab art fair, Pantocrator gallery/ La Pan, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Women’s Lines, Pantocrator Gallery / La Pan, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Top Event-Session Three–Bi Rongrong Open Studio (The studio as an installation), Shanghai, China
2011 Top Event-Session Two–Bi Rongrong Open Studio (Drawings), Shanghai, China
2011 Top Event-Session one–Bi Rongrong Open Studio (Paintings and Murals), , Shanghai, China
2011 Ongekend, Young Masters @Auction Rotterdam (Art Rotterdam 2011), Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010 Present Work-Final Graduation Exhibition, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands
2010 No Surface, Kunstruimte 09, Groningen, Netherlands
2010 Open Studio, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands
2010 Once Mohr, Campis, Assen, Netherlands
2009 Albatross, Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
2009 Tomorrow’s Graduates Painting Frank Mohr–Wan Ku, Frank Mohr Institute, Painting Department, Groningen, Netherlands
2009 Show Master, Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands
Public Art Projects:
2019 Drawing and It’s Happenings (I), Facade of A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2016 As Seen in Nature, ArtReview Asia Xiàn Chǎng section, Shanghai，China
2016 Breathe, Group Exhibition A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, United Kingdom
2014 A Tangible Shadow, public art project, building c, Sifang Collective, Nanjing, China
2013 Filter – public art project–SWFC 5thAnniversary Art Project, Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
Collaboration Project:
2015 Stage setting “A Transformation of ‘Tri-Image 2/3’” for the dance piece American Finch,stage project cooperated with Contemporary Dance artists Jutta Hell and Dieter Baumann, Uferstudio , Berlin, Germany
Residency:
2014 Breath Residency Programme, July-September, Manchester, United Kingdom
2013 Swatch Peace Hotel Art Residency, March 1-August 31, Shanghai, China
2012 Les Verrieres Residences-ateliers de Pont-Aven, July 2-September 28, France
2009 Stichting Waddenwerk, August 1-31, Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands
Collection:
Painting: It Happens In Time And Space 05/15 is collected by White Rabbit Museum, Australia
Installation: A Tangible Shadow is collected by Sifang Collective, 2014, China
Installation: The Landscape is Called Sweet Faith is collected by Museum aan de A7 (Rabobank Drachten), Netherland
