Shen Ruijun, artist and curator, her works take painting as a starting point and draw inspiration from nature, emphasizing experience and process. Her practice covers a variety of media, including installation, animation, and new media. Through perceptions of multi-dimensional space and multiple angles, her works explore the state of instantly shifting and intertwining contradictions such as, the virtual and the real, spirit and matter, the quotidian and the demystified, the individual and the collective, the norm and the exception, etc. In recent years, she practices a way of life that endows the spirit in the everyday through self-reserved land projects and maintains an independent lifestyle within connectivity.

Shen Ruijun graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, received her MFA from Montcalm State University in 2004, and was rewarded the Joan Mitchell Award in the same year. She received her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, who was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Her works were included in the 8th Shenzhen Ink Biennale (2013), the 2013 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2019). They have been collected by MAXXI, Italy, KADIST, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, the White Rabbit Collection, Australia, and the Teirochi Deleon Collection. Formerly the Chief Curator of Guangdong Times Art Museum (2014-2017), Shen Ruijun is currently the China program director of KADIST (San Francisco/Paris) and an independent artist.