Lu Zhirong - RongRong     卢志荣(荣荣)

1968   Born in Zhangzhou city, Fujian Province, China

1992   Entered the photography department of the Central Industrial Art Institute, Beijing

1993   Moved into Beijing’s “East Village”, and began a long-term photographic study on the lives of the young avant-garde artists who were living there

1996   Established “New Photo” magazine

2006   Established “Three Shadows Photography Art Centre”

Works and lives in Beijing, China

2008

RongRong & inri, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA (Solo)

RongRong & inri, Casa Asia Madrid, Casa Asia Barcelona, Spain (Solo)

RongRong & inri 2003-2008, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China (Solo)

2008 Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea

Chinese and Japanese Contemporary Paintings from Zeit-Foto Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, China

LASST HUNDERT BLUMEN BLUHEN, Der Dresdner Kunstverein

2007  

RongRong & inri, Rencontres d' Arles 2007 (Solo)

NEWPHOTO 10Years, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China

Convection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China

Net: Reimiganing Space, Time and Culture, CHAMBERS FINE ART BEIJING,China

2006  

The Third Space ,  Alexander Ochs Gallerie, Berlin, Germany (Solo)

Liu Li Tun, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A. (Solo)

Inner Scopes, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China

China Now, Sammlung Essl / Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria

Another world - photography from China, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria

Developing: 20 Years of Contemporary Chinese Photography, Nanjing Sifang Museum of Contemporary Art,          Nanjing, China

2005  

Beyond, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A. (Solo)

About Beauty, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2004  

All Under Heaven, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, Asia Society, New York; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Museum of  Contemporary Art, Chicago, U.S.A.

Le moine et le demon: Art Contemporain Chinois, Musée Art Contemporain Lyon, France

The 5th Shanghai Biennale-Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2003

RongRong’s East Village, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A. (Solo)

Tui-Transfiguration: The Image World of RongRong and inri, Factory 798, Beijing, China (Solo)

Chinart, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany;Museo Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

A Strange Heaven, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague , Czech

2002

RongRong: Retrospective, Galerie Loft, Paris, France (Solo)     

Beijing Afloat, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, China     

The 1st Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2001  

Promenade in Asia, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

China-Naarden Wall-to-Wall, Fotofestival Naarden 2001, Amsterdam, the Netherland Cross Pressures, Oulu City Art Museum, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland

Chinese Contemporary Photography, Galerie Steinek-Halle, Vienna, Austria

2000  

Big Torino 2000: Biennale of Emerging Artists, Torino, Italy    

Fuck Off, East Link Gallery, Shanghai,  China
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Mcaf Foundation, BizArt, Shanghai

1999  

Ruin Pictures - RongRong, Chambers Fine Art, New York, U.S.A. (Solo)

Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago University, U.S.A.
  

Beijing in London, ICA, London, UK       

La Biennale d’Issy, Paris, France

Love: Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video, Tachikawa Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan

1998  

Solo Exhibition, Galerie HS Steinek, Vienna, Austria (Solo)

1997

Solo Exhibition, Cultural Section of the French Embassy, Beijing, China (Solo)

Contemporary Photo Art from P.R.China Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Staedtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany 

1996

China Avantgarde Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
CanTonShangHaiPeKingHangZhou CIFA Gallery, Beijing
CanTonShangHaiPeKingHangZhouLuoYang CIFA Gallery, Beijing

1995

The Witness of Contemporary Art in China Tokyo Gallery, Japan
China’s New Photos: Three Person Show, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan