"Mi piace dialogare con la gente in merito a quali siano i loro ideali e l'idea della natura. Dobbiamo sempre farci domande su tutto ciò che ci viene dato".
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Laureatosi in Fotografia rispettivamente al Camberwell College of Arts e al College of Communication di Londra, ha poi condotto progetti e borse di ricerca presso il Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, la Bangkok University Gallery, il National Museum of Wales, l'Earth Observatory di Singapore, Fotogallery, il The Arctic Circle Residency e la Kadist Art Foundation di San Francisco.
La ricerca artistica di Zhao si interseca, ed è profondamente influenzata dalla scienza, con particolare riferimento alla branca della zoologia. L’artista lavora principalmente con la fotografia, adottando tuttavia un approccio multidisciplinare che, visivamente, consiste nella presentazione contestuale di immagini, testi e documenti, con l’obiettivo di esplorare i principi che sottostanno alla divulgazione del sapere.
Robert Zhao Renhui CV
Nato nel 1983 a Singapore (Singapore).
MOSTRE
Mostre personali
2018
The Institute of Critical Zoologists Final Report of the Christmas Island Expert Working Group, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
2017
The Nature Museum, By Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ) General,
2017
Singapore International Festival of Art, SIFA, 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
2014
A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
Flies Prefer Yellow, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2012
The Institute of Critical Zoologists, Chapter Arts Centre, U.K.
Living Proof, Bangkok University Gallery, Thailand
2011
The Land Archive, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2010
The Whiteness of a Whale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2009
If a Tree Falls in the Forest, Substation, Singapore
Mostre collettive
2018
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Australia
Taipei Biennial 2018, Post-Nature: A Museum as an Ecosystem, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland
Starting from the Desert Ecologies on the Edge, The Second Yinchuan Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan
PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
Fast Foward Festival 5, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
A World in a Grain of Sand, Mapping Shapes and Sites for Social Geometries, Atlantis, Hainan Sanya
Civilization:The Way We Live Now, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, U.S.A
2017
The Reason Why Classic Is, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen
JIWA: Jakarta Biennale 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia
Hugo Boss Asia Art 2017, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
7th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Moscow, Russia
The Modern Look, Part I, Modern Art Base, Shanghai
Chobi Mela IX, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2016
20th Biennale of Sydney, The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia
Prudential Eye Awards Exhibition
Art Science Museum, Singapore
2015
‘Next Door’, Curated by Tang Fu Kuen, The White Box @ Publika, Malaysia
Pause, PhotoBangkok, Bangkok Arts Cultural Centre, Thailand
2015
Biel-Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland
Les Rencontres d'Arles expositions, Arles Discovery Awards Exhibition,
2014
Bright S'pore(s), Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
Landscape: the Virtual, the Actual, the Possible?, Times Museum, Guangdong
APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The Origin of Beauty, Dramatic Nostalgia Busan Museum of Art, Korea
Ocean of Possibilities, Noorderlicht Festival of Photography, Amsterdam, Holand
Going, Going until I Meet the Tide, Busan Biennale, Korea
Origins Memories & Parodies, Daegu Photo Biennale, Korea
Mapping Asia, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Truths, Facts, Fictions, Lies, PhotoIreland, Ireland
A Time of Dreams, Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Russia
Grandprix Fotofestiwal, Poland
Unearthed, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Ghost Nature, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A.
Projections Animalieres, La Box, Bourges at The École Nationale Supérieure d'Art, France
The Land Archive, 24/7, Sculpture Square, Singapore
Do You Believe in Angels?, MO_Space, Philippines
2013
President’s Young Talents, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Singapore Biennale: If the World Changed, The Peranakan Museum, Singapore
Photoquai 4, Museum de Branly, France
Novel Ecologies, Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
The Artist, the Book and the Crowd, Substation, Singapore
Living in the Ruins of the 20th Century, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
International Festival of Photography, Mineiro Museum, Brazil
The Realm in the Mirror, the Vision out of Image, Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou
Engaging Perspectives, New Art From Singapore, Centre of Contemporary Art, Singapore
President’s Young Talent Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Adapting to the Anthropocene, Unesco House, Paris, France
Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2012
Right Here, Right Now, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, U.K.
Terra Cognita, Noorderlitcht Festival of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
FutureMap, Zabludowicz Collection, London, U.K.
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 Arts Foundation, Indonesia
2010
A Touch of Violence, National Arts Gallery, Albania
Haven’t You Heard?, The Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
When Species Meet : A Gaze That is Nonhuman, MOMA Warsaw, Poland
Emerging Wave, GoEun Museum of Photography, Korea
2009
Photocinema, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, U.K.
2008
We Decided to Go to the Zoo But It Was Raining, Photo Levallois Festival, Paris, France
Progetti
2018
Trying to Remember A Tree (iii) – The World Will Surely Collapse, Special outdoor installation project in conjunction with Art After Dark, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2014
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2013
Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore
2012
National Museum of Wales, Residency by Chapter Arts Centre, Wales, U.K.
Langgeng Arts Foundation, Residency on Dutch Colonial Archives, Holand
2011
Bangkok University Gallery, Tailand
The Arctic Circle Residency, Arctic Circle
Ffotogallery, Wales, United Kingdom
2010
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
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