Biography
Ren Ruoxi, Artist, currently working in Shanghai and London.
Ren Ruoxi's work encompasses interactive installations, painting, AI art, video, and performance. She excels in merging digital and physical media to explore the intangible systems formed by humans and non-humans, nature, and machines in the Anthropocene from a sensuous and poetic perspective. Using bodily sensations as a medium, she deeply investigates the interactive forces and subjective experiences between the material and immaterial. Her work demonstrates how material, immaterial, and artificial entities interact continuously.
She explores how matter engages in tactile dialogues with individuals, the environment, and the cosmos. Her creations often begin with an enhanced perceptual awareness and a wisdom that transcends sensory experience, inviting the audience to contemplate multiple layers of existence, breaking traditional boundaries, and delving into the intimate connections between the material and spiritual worlds.
Education
2021 MA, University of the Arts London, Interaction Design Arts
2019 BFA, Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts
Selected Exhibitions
2024
The Great Manual of (Post)Human Physiology, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Aura Hunter, DOSE Gallery, Shanghai (Solo exhibition)Spiritual Being II: Light Beyond the Traces, The Parrot Space, Shanghai
Wukang Drying Field, E.SCAPE Art Space, Shanghai
2023
From the Other Hill, Guardian Art Center, Beijing
Balled of species, Theothersartfair, Italy
Nanjing International Art Fair UNI-NAFI
Oil Tank Player Art Festival, Oil Tank Art Center, Shanghai
2022
Oil Tank Player Art Festival, Oil Tank Art Center, Shanghai
CRYPTO ART WEEK ASIA
Messier Contemporary Art Exhibition, Messier 31A Room of One’s Own, Safehouse Art, London
Random: Strolling into Truth After Drinking, Superrare Cryptocurrency Art Gallery
2021
The 4th Cement Park Live Art Festival, YellSpace, ShanghaiUSB multi-port connection Exhibition, Madein Gallery, Shanghai (curation
)An After-Party, SS Gallery, The 1st Shanghai Museum/Gallery Staff Biennale, Shanghai (curation)
Tomorrow’s Peach Core, Yes! Art Festival, Shenzhen (Dual Exhibition)Infinite and Inevitable, Shanghai
Bund Financial Center Cloud Art Museum, Shanghai
Romanticism in the Cyber Moment, Joli Art, Shenzhen
White T Project 2021 charity auction, CouttsArt Center, Shanghai
Neural Rush - Empowerment Zone of Youthful Energy, CouttsArt Center, ShanghaiAdidas Originals, Stan Academia exhibition, TX Huaihai, ShanghaiECO·BOX charity exhibition, YCJ art club, Beijing
2020
MIRROR MAZE Across Identities: Body, Soul, and Time, NO SPACE, OnlineArtwork: Infinite Species Generator, Computer, participated in ARS Electronics Festival, Germany
THE EYE, V&A Museum, London
Gold Fish, The Cave Art Gallery, London
Residency
2025 Meraki studio, Yunnan, China
2023 NOVA Project, Guang Dong, China