RongRong & inri

Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, RongRong (b.1968) studied photography at the Central Industrial Art Institute in Beijing in 1992. In the following year, he moved to Beijing’s East Village and first gained attention by participating and documenting the performance art by young avant-garde artists living in the village. In 1996, RongRong founded the New Photo magazine with Liu Zheng.

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, inri (b.1973) graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in Tokyo in 1994 and worked as a photographer for newspaper Asahi Shinbun. In 1997, she became a freelance photographer to pursue her own creative work. In 2000, She relocated to Beijing to live with RongRong.

RongRong & inri have been collaborating in art since 2000. In 2007, they founded the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, the first private contemporary art space dedicated exclusively to photography in China.

RongRong & inri currently live and work in Beijing.


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011         "Three Begets Ten Thousand Things", Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
                  "Three Begets Ten Thousand Things", Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
                  "Rong Rong’s Ruins, Fragments and Wedding Gown Series: 1996 – 2000", Chamber Fine Art,
                  Beijing, China
                  "RongRong & inri", Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2010         "Compound Eye", He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
                  "RongRong & inri", Gallery MEM, Tokyo, Japan
                  "RongRong & inri: Selections from the Three Shadows Collection", Three Shadows Photography Art
                  Centre, Beijing, China

2008         "From Six Mile Village to Three Shadows", Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
                  "Ruins to Renewal: Works by RongRong & inri", SF Cameraworks, San Francisco, CA, USA
                  "RongRong & inri: The Power of Ruins. Between Destruction and Construction", Casa Asia Centre,
                  Madrid, Spain; Casa Asia Headquarter, Barcelona, Spain

2007         "RongRong & inri", Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France

2006         "The Third Space", Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany
                  "Liulitun", Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

2005         "Beyond", Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

2003         "Tui-Transfiguration: The Image World of RongRong and inri", Dashangzi Art District, Beijing, China


Selected Group Exhibitions

2011         "Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
                  "Photography from the New China", The J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
                  "Interconnected: Selections from the Three Shadows Collection", Three Shadows Photography Art
                  Centre, Beijing, China

2009         "Still Life: 2009 Europalia - China International Art Festival", Brussels Art Museum, Brussels, Belgium
                  "Third Guangdong International Biennial", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
                  "Couples in Contemporary Art", Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China

2008         "Christian Dior & Chinese Artists", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
                  "Laßt hundert Blumen blühen", Der Dresdner Kunstverein, Dresden, Germany
                  "While Alive: Chinese Contemporary Photographs", Daegu Photo Biennale 2008, Daegu, Korea

2007         "Convection", Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
                  "Net", Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China

2006         "Inner Scopes", Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
                  "Intimate Beijing–Photography Exhibition (China–Japan–Netherlands)", 706 Factory, Beijing, China
                  "Another world - photography from China", Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2005         "About Beauty", House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

2004         "The 5th Shanghai Biennale-Techniques of the Visible", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
                  "Le moine et le démon: Art contemporain chinois", Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
                  "All Under Heaven", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

2003-04    "Chinart", Museum Küppersmühle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany; Museo d’Arte
                  Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2003         "A Strange Heaven", Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

2002         "Dream 02", Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
                  "Beijing Afloat", Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China

2001         "Cross Pressures", Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland; The Finnish Museum of Photography,
                  Helsinki, Finland
                  "Chinese Contemporary Photography", Galerie Steinek-Halle, Vienna, Austria