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ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI 赵仁辉
b. 1983, works and lives in Singapore
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ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI 赵仁辉
The Forest Institute
2022
Prints, video, found objects
244(H)*600*270cm
ZRH_9343

Current And Upcoming Exhibitions:
Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, 12.02, 2022 - 08.20, 2023
14th Gwangju Biennale, Soft and Weak Like Water, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea, 04.07, 2023 - 07.09, 2023
Mending the Sky, ShanghART M50, Shanghai, 05.06, 2023 - 07.08, 2023
The Power of Plants: An Ancient Vitality, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, 05.12, 2023 - 07.16, 2023

Introduction

Singaporean visual artist Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983) works chiefly with photography but often adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, presenting images together with documents and objects in the form of textual and media analysis, video and photography projects. His artistic practice investigates man’s relationship with nature, utilizing convincing narratives to invoke doubts in its audience towards the concept of truth and its portrayal. His works has been exhibited globally, having held solo exhibitions in Singapore, China, Japan, Australia, and Italy, as well as participating in various biennales and photo festivals.

Recent exhibitions include 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea (2023); Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore (2022); From the Mundane World, He Art Museum, Foshan, China (2020); Busan Biennale: Words at an Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea (2020); Singapore Biennale 2019, Singapore (2019); The Lines We Draw, Yalu River Art Museum, Dandong, China (2019); Effect, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A. (2019); Observe, Experiment, Archive, Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, London, U.K. (2019); The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Australia (2018); JIWA: Jakarta Biennale 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia (2017); 7th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia (2017); A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Australia (2015).

His works have been awarded The United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year Award (Singapore) in 2009 and The Deutsche Bank Award in Photography by the University of the Arts London in 2011. In 2010, he was awarded The Young Artist Award by the Singapore National Arts Council. He was also named as a finalist for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2017 as the only Southeast Asian artist, and the 12th Benesse Prize 2019 for his work in the 6th Singapore Biennale. Most recently, he was awarded the inaugural Silvana S. Foundation Commission Award in 2020 and Excellence Award in the 44th New Cosmos of Photography competition in 2021.

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