Ren Hang Born 1987 in , . Died 2017 in .

EDUCATION

2010 B.A., Communication University of China, Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Ren Hang, Photography, The Sozzani Foundation, Milan Ren Hang: Nudes, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

2019 Love, Ren Hang, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Love, Ren Hang​, C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin Ren Hang: Chinese Spring #4, Markgravelei 95 POP UP, Antwerp, Belgium

2018 Ren Hang: Wake Up Together, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

2017 Ren Hang: Naked/Nude, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Ren Hang: Human Love, Fotografska, Stockholm, Sweden Ren Hang, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Ren Hang: Beauty without Beards, KWM Art Center, Beijing; Modern Art Base,

2016 Ren Hang: Athens Love, Klein Sun Gallery, New York Ren Hang: What We Do Is Secret, MAMA Gallery, Los Angeles Ren Hang: 白日升天 (Bai Ri Sheng Tian), Modernsky Lab, Beijing Ren Hang: TOKYO, matchbaco Gallery, Tokyo

2015 Ren Hang: New Love, matchbaco Gallery, Tokyo Ren Hang: Morphology, HdM Gallery, , China Occupy Atopos: Ren Hang, Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture, Athens, Greece In Presence of Ren Hang, Stieglitz 19 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Ren Hang Solo Show​, Atelier 72 Gallery, Marseille, France Ren Hang: 野生 (Ye Sheng), OstLicht Gallery, Vienna, Austria Ren Hang 2014, Capricious 88 Gallery, New York Ren Hang: My Mum/My Father, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong

2014 Ren Hang: Hide, Soy Sauce Factory, Bangkok, Thailand Ren Hang, Nicolas Hugo Gallery, Paris Ren Hang: Anatomy of the Image, 104 Kléber Gallery, Paris

398 West Street, New York, NY 10014 | T: +1.212.255.4388 | [email protected] | www.galleryek.com Ren Hang: Physical Borderline, Three shadows +3 gallery, Beijing Ren Hang: In Addition to Sleep, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark Ren Hang: In Addition to Sleep, Vasli Souza gallery, Malmo, Sweden Ren Hang: La Chine a Nue, NUE Gallery, Paris

2013 Ren Hang: Pulse, Galerie Jane Zhang, Frankfurt, Germany

2011 Ren Hang: Stillbirth, Yugong Yishan Live House, Beijing Ren Hang: Allergy, Kubrick, Beijing

2010 Ren Hang: Intercourse with Beijing, Yugong Yishan Live House, Beijing Ren Hang: Eat Naked Lunch!, Yuyintang Live House, Shanghai

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 China Fever, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin About Us: Young Photography from China, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich

2019 Stop Peeping, Cement Fondu, Paddington, Australia Spectrosynthesis II - Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand 2018 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography (1978-2018), OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China Ten Directions - The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing

2017 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography（1976-2017）- Three Shadows 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing

2016 Scripts of the Bodies, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, , China Zona Maco Photo, Centro Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico Photo Collect Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark f/stop Photography Festival, Blow Up Press, Leipzig, Germany LOIVE, matchbaco Gallery, Tokyo Sensitive Surface - Different Perspectives over the Uses of Male Body in Today's Photography, Vasli Souza, Malmö, Sweden

2015 Medium of Desire: An International Anthology of Photography and Video, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Before, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing New Chinese Photography Forces - Three Shadows Photography Center at Tsumari, Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival, Tokyo Three Shadows Second Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing I Love You - The 2nd Yangon Photo Festival, French Institute in Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar Three Shadows +3 Gallery Annual Exhibition, Three Shadows +3 Gallery, Beijing From Old Ground, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia Yesterday We Wanted to be The Sky, Kamarade Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Portrait of the World, Barbado Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal Temporary Boundary, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium Faceless, De Markten Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium

2014 Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai Three Shadows First Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing New Photos Since 2009, Art Museum, Wuhan, China Second Yuandian Contemporary Photography Festival, Yuandian Art Museum, Beijing Staging Encounters - Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China, Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China Umbria World Fest, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy Arles Photo Festival, Le Magasin de Jouets Gallery, Arles, France FotoLeggendo, Via Del Commercio 13, Rome Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris Let it Louder, Sanlitun Village Orange Hall, Beijing New Frontiers in Contemporary Photography, Tryffel Grisen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Faceless, Stichting Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands Chinese Spring Part 1, Stieglitz19, Brussels, Belgium Chinese Spring Part 2, Stieglitz19, Brussels, Belgium

2013 The First Beijing Photo Biennial: Aura and Post Aura, China Millennium Monument, Beijing Network Real-time Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Shanghai Faceless Part 1, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria Fuck Off 2 - Chinese Contemporary Art Document, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands A Miscellany of Arts - The Visual Rhetoric of the Young Generation, Jinji Lake Art Museum, , China Farewell to Experience - Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou Cultural Square, Lianzhou, China The 2nd Conceptual Film Photography Show, F518 Idea Land, Shenzhen, China True Panic - Photography Exhibition, Bowl Island Gallery, Beijing Photo Off - 4th Edition, La Bellevilloise, Paris Remote Places, Close Spaces, Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Scotland, United Kingdom Equal Relationships, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong Atypical, Beijing Space, Beijing, China Fuck Taboo, Camera16 Gallery, Milan, Italy

2012 Secret Love, Oriental Museum in Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden The 1st CAFAM future development, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (+150) Visione: Origine e Potere. Energia Attraverso le Generazioni, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow Symptoms: Becoming Peninsula I, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Ren Hang/Jordane Yarden Gaudenzi Double Photographic Exhibition, Avignon, France Memory Lost and Found, Beijing Space, Beijing

2011 FÉROCES Festival de Photographie Internationale 2011, Avignon, France Rencontres d'Arles Festival - The Viewer Exhibition, Arles, France Recurrent Shadows - Selected Works From Three Shadows Photography Awards 2008-2011, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China The Fourth 54 International Young Art Festival 2011, 798 Art District, Beijing Myriad Visions: The 2011 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing Curated by Rong Rong - Qiu & Ren Hang: Inner Ear, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Sour Sweet Bitter Spicy - Four Photographers' Exhibition, Angers, France The Launch of Light Room, J Gallery, Shanghai Young Movement, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 The 3rd Terna Contemporary Art Exhibition, Rome; Milan, Italy Warmth - 2010-2011 New Year Art Exhibition, Knowledge and Innovation Community, Shanghai New Photography Magazine Photography Exhibition, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong 798 Festival Young - "This Is Me With Attitude" Photography Exhibition, Wudaoying Hutong & Fangjia Hutong, Beijing The 1st International Art Contemporary Festival of China Jimei, Jimei Art District, Xiamen, China Into The Mood, A Art Center, Hong Kong TORA TORA TORA: Chinese Cutting-Edge Photography Exhibition, Caochangdi Arts District, Beijing Experiment 2010 Screenage Art Document Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing

2009 80’s and Peaceful Evolution Visual Group Exhibition, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong Femininity/Photography - International Photography Exhibition: Paradise With Love, , China Private Talk, Zhenshi Cinema, Shanghai Gender Diversity, Songzhuang Art Area, Beijing

PUBLICATIONS

2017 Word or Two. Text by Ren Hang. Translated by Ho King Man, Casey Robbins. BHKM, Hong Kong

2016 Athens Love. Session Press, New York [Published in conjunction with Ren Hang's solo exhibition "Athens Love."] 太阳 (Tai Yang), Editions Bessard, Paris FEBRUARY, Self-published JANUARY, Self-published

2015 New Love, Session Press, Tokyo Seafood Party, Self-published Shanghai Visitors, Self-published 野生 (Ye Sheng), copublished by dienacht Publishing and OstLicht Gallery in Vienna, Germany Food Issue, Same studio, Shanghai

2014 Physical Borderline, Three Shadows +3 Gallery, Beijing

2013 The Brightest Light Runs Too Fast, Editions Bessard, Paris Son and Bitch, Neurasthenia, Taiwan Republic, Éditions du LIC, Oslo, Norway My Depression, Self-published Poem Collection of Ren Hang, Neurasthenia, Taiwan

2012 Nude, Self-published

2011 Room, Self-published Ren Hang 2009-2011, Self-published

DOCUMENTARY

2017 I've Got a Little Problem, directed by Zhang Ximing, screenplay by Ren Hang & Zhang Ximing

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

2015 Occupy Atopos Residency, Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture, Athens, Greece

2013 Q12/MuseumsQuartier Wien Artists-in-Residence, Vienna, Austria

SELECTED AWARDS

2016 Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund, Netherlands

2015 Young Artist of the Year of the 9th AAC Art China [nominated]

2014 New Prominent Artist, the 2nd Huayu Youth Award [nominated]

2010 The 3rd Terna Contemporary Art Award, Italy SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Kansas State University Art Museum, Manhattan, Kansas Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow White Rabbit Collection, Sydney Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing