ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI Born 1983, Singapore Lives and works in Singapore EDUCATION 2010- MA, London College of Communications, London, UK 2011 2003- Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK 2005 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Robert Zhao Renhui: The Lines We Draw, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore 2019 New Forest, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei The Lines We Draw, Yalu River Art Museum, Dandong 2018 The Institute of Critical Zoologists Final Report of the Christmas Island Expert Working Group, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore 2017 Robert Zhao Renhui: Christmas Island, Naturally, ShanghART M50, Shanghai The Nature Museum, Singapore International Festival of Art, 72-13, Singapore Zhao Renhui: Christmas Island, Naturally, ShanghART Singapore, 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 The Nature Collector-Robert Zhao Renhui, ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai The Tree That Fell, The Substation, Singapore 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 The Last Thing You See, 2902 Gallery, Singapore Fake or Reality, Galarie Anzenberger, Vienna, Austria Flies Prefer Yellow, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, U.S.A 2012 The Institute of Critical Zoologists, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK Living Proof, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2011 The Land Archive, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore 2010 The Whiteness of a Whale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 2009 If a Tree Falls in the Forest, The Substation, Singapore GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 (Upcoming), Tonight The Air Is Warm, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK 2020 From the Mundane World, Launch Exhibition of He Art Museum, He Art Museum, Guangdong In The Forest, Even The Air Breathes, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy Busan Biennale: Words at an Exhibition, an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Cache: From B to Z, ShanghART, Shanghai The Seeds We Sow, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore A Hypothetical Show for A Closed Museum, M Woods (online) 2019 Winter Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing 2219: Futures Imagined, ArtScience Museum, Singapore Singapore Biennale 2019, Every Step in the Right Direction, Gillman Barracks, Singapore Observe, Experiment, Archive, Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, London, U.K. Effect, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A. An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong Quasi-Nature, Bio Art, Borderline and Laboratory, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing Stories That Matter: ICONS &The Land Archive, Objectifs 2018 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, 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 Forward 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 Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Centrum für Naturkunde at the Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 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 On Sharks and Humanity, Parkview Museum, Singapore Chobi Mela IX, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2016 Holzwege, ShanghART, Shanghai The Uncertain, or the Shelved..., ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai The Uncertain, or the Shelved..., ShanghART Main Space, Shanghai 20th Biennale of Sydney, The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia Prudential Eye Awards Exhibition 2016, ArtScience Museum, Singapore 2015 No Boundary: An Exhibition featuring Singaporean Artists, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore Minuscule in Scope-Gargantuan in Perspective, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai Singapore: Inside Out, 751 D-Park, Beijing ‘Next Door’, Curated by Tang Fu Kuen, The White Box @ Publika, Malaysia Pause, PhotoBangkok, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand 2015 Biel-Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland Les Rencontres d'Arles expositions, Arles Discovery Awards Exhibition, Xiamen 2014 APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Countershadows (tactics in evasion), Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore Landscape: the Virtual, the Actual, the Possible?, Times Museum, Guangdong The Origin of Beauty: Dramatic Nostalgia, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea Ocean of Possibilities, Noorderlicht Festival of Photography, Amsterdam,Holand Busan Biennale Special Exhibition (Asian Curatorial): Going, Going until I Meet the Tide, Busan, South Korea Origins Memories & Parodies, Daegu Photo Biennale, Korea Mapping Asia, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Truths, Facts, Fictions, Lies, PhotoIreland, Dublin, Ireland 4th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art: A Time for Dreams, Moscow Grand Prix Fotofestiwal, Lodz, 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 Going Where?, A Special Group Show for Singapore Artists, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore Singapore Biennale: If the World Changed, The Peranakan Museum, Singapore Photoquai 4, Museum de Branly, Paris, France Novel Ecologies, Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia The Artist, the Book and the Crowd, The 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 for Contemporary Art, Singapore President’s Young Talents, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Earth Works, PPOW Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Adapting to the Anthropocene, UNESCO House, Paris, France Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore Beast Bloom for Thee, Canna Galari, Jakarta, Indonesia Between Conversations, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore 2012 EDIT: Image Fetish and Phobia, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai 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 Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Animal Talk, Jendela (Visual Arts Space), Esplanade, Singapore Not Too Far Away, 2902 Gallery, Singapore A Touch of Violence, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania Haven’t You Heard?, The Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong When Species Meet : A Gaze That is Non­human, MoMA Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Emerging Wave, GoEun Museum of Photography, South Korea Art & The Law, M1 Fringe Festival, Jendela Gallery, Singapore CUT 2010, New Photography From Southeast Asia : Parallel Universe, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore 2009 Photocinema, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK 2008 We Decided to Go to the Zoo But It Was Raining, Photo-Levallois Festical, Paris, France PRIZES 2019 Finalist, 12th Benesse Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 2017 Finalist, Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai 2014 Finalist, APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 2011 Deutsche Bank Award In Photography, University of the Arts London, London, UK 2010 Young Artist Award, Singapore 2009 Arts Creation Fund, National Arts Council, Singapore United Overseas Bank (UOB) Painting of the Year Award, Singapore 2008 Honourable Mention, PhotoLevallois Festival, Paris, France COLLECTIONS Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France Statoil Art Collection, Stavanger, Norway National Museum of Singapore, Singapore UBS Art Collection, UBS Global Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, U.S.A UOB Art Collection, Singapore Singapore Art Museum, Singapore .