ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI 赵仁辉
b. 1983, works and lives in Singapore
Basic
Education
Prize
Nomination
Collections
| 1983 | Born in Singapore |
| 2008 | Founded Institute of Critical Zoologists |
| 2005 -2008 | Camberwell College of Arts, London |
| 2010 -2011 | Master, London College of Communications, London |
| 2021 | Excellence Award, New Cosmos of Photography 2021, Tokyo, Japan |
| Still Image 2nd Place, Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize, Singapore | |
| 2020 | Silvana S. Foundation Commission Award, Singapore |
| 2011 | Deutsche Bank Award In Photography, University of the Arts London, London, U.K. |
| 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 |
| 2019 | Finalist, 12th Benesse Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| 2017 | Finalist, Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2016 -2018 | Nominee, Prix Elysée, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2014 | Finalist, APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| Solo Exhibitions | (Selected | | | All) |
| 2025 | Robert Zhao Renhui: Seeing Forest, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| Robert Zhao: The Divine in the Trash Stratum, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore | |
| 2024 | Seeing Forest, Singapore Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
| 2023 | Robert Zhao Renhui: Monuments in the Forest, ShanghART, Shanghai |
| 2020 | Robert Zhao Renhui: The Lines We Draw, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore |
| 2019 | Effect, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, U.S.A. |
| New Forest, Mind Set Art Center, Taipei | |
| The Lines We Draw, Yalu River Art Museum, Dandong | |
| 2018 | The Nature Museum (Athens), Fast Forward Festival 5, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece |
| The Institute of Critical Zoologists Final Report of the Christmas Island Expert Working Group, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore | |
| 2017 | The Nature Museum (Shanghai), Hugo Boss Asia Art 2017, Rockbund Art Museum, 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 | |
| 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 | The Last Thing You See, 2902 Gallery, Singapore |
| Flies Prefer Yellow, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, U.S.A. | |
| 2012 | The Institute of Critical Zoologists, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, U.K. |
| 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 | (Selected | | | All) |
| 2024 | Enrooting, the Heterogeneous Phenomenon, Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu |
| Between Waves and Soils, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung | |
| All The Images Will Disappear, ShanghART WB Central, Shanghai | |
| Three Tired Tigers, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emitrates | |
| Ennova Art Biennale, Ennova Art Museum, Langfang | |
| Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Jut Art Museum, Taipei | |
| In Stranger Lands: Cocoa’s Journeys to Asia, Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | |
| Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore | |
| 2023 | 14th Gwangju Biennale, Soft and Weak Like Water, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea |
| 2022 | The First Beijing Biennial, National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing Friendship Store; M Woods Museum (Qianliang Hutong), Beijing |
| The 9th edition Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Sub Venue Pingshan Dawanshiju Dawan Unplugged, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen | |
| Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore | |
| Entrance, ShanghART Singapore 10th Anniversary Exhibition, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore | |
| 2021 | Super Fusion - 2021 Chengdu Biennale, Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu |
| Posthuman Ensemble, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea | |
| 2020 | From the Mundane World, Launch Exhibition of He Art Museum, He Art Museum, Foshan |
| 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, Beijing | |
| 2019 | Singapore Biennale 2019, Every Step in the Right Direction, National Gallery Singapore; Gillman Barracks etc., Singapore |
| Observe, Experiment, Archive, Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, Sunderland, U.K. | |
| An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong | |
| 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 | |
| Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, U.S.A | |
| 2017 | Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Centrum für Naturkunde at the Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
| JIWA: Jakarta Biennale 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| 7th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Clouds⇄Forests, Moscow, Russia | |
| Chobi Mela IX, Dhaka, Bangladesh | |
| 2016 | Holzwege, ShanghART, Shanghai |
| 20th Biennale of Sydney, The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed, Sydney, Australia | |
| 2015 | 2015 Biel-Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland |
| Les Rencontres d'Arles expositions, Arles Discovery Awards Exhibition, Arles, France | |
| Pause, PhotoBangkok, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| 2014 | Ocean of Possibilities, Noorderlicht Festival of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Busan Biennale Special Exhibition (Asian Curatorial): Going, Going until I Meet the Tide, Busan, South Korea | |
| Mapping Asia, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong | |
| 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 | |
| 2013 | President’s Young Talents 2013, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
| Photoquai 4, Museum de Branly, Paris, France | |
| Novel Ecologies, Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia | |
| International Festival of Photography, Mineiro Museum, Brazil | |
| Adapting to the Anthropocene, UNESCO House, Paris, France | |
| Beast Bloom for Thee, Canna Galari, Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| 2012 | EDIT: Image Fetish and Phobia, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai |
| Earth Works, Ten Artists on Land and Industry, PPOW Gallery, New York, U.S.A. | |
| Right Here, Right Now, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, U.K. | |
| Terra Cognita, Noorderlitcht Festival of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 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 | |
| Not Too Far Away, 2902 Gallery, Singapore | |
| 2010 | A Touch of Violence, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania |
| Haven’t You Heard?, 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 | |
| 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 |
| Projects | (Selected | | | All) |
| Film Festivals | (All | | | Selected) |
| 2022 | Painting with Light, Festival of International Films on Art, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore |
| CBW Collection, Taiwan | |
| Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France | |
| Statoil Art Collection, Stavanger, Norway | |
| National Museum of Singapore, Singapore | |
| UOB Art Collection, Singapore | |
| Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; San Francisco, U.S.A. | |
| Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| M+ Collection, Hong Kong | |
| UBS Art Collection, UBS Global | |
| Tate Collection, London, U.K. |
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