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RongRong 
  
1968Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China
1992Studied at The Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University
1993Moved into Beijing's "East Village", and began a long-term photographic study on the lives of young avant-garde artists
1996Established "New Photo" Magazine
2000Started to make collaborative works with inri
2001Took part in KUNST Artist in Residence Program, Vienna, Austria
2007Established Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
CurrentlyLives and works in Beijing
inri 
  
1973Born in Kanagawa
1994Graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute, Tokyo, Japan
1994-97Worked as a photographer for the newspaper Asahi Shinbun
1997Became a freelance photographer and started individual creative work
2000Started to make collaborative works with RongRong
2001Took part in KUNST Artist in Residence Program, Vienna, Austria
2007Established Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
CurrentlyLives and works in Beijing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016Tsumari Story, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
 Geography, Documents and Works by RongRong & inri, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
2015The Focus: RongRong & inri, The Modern Art Musuem of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, USA
Tsumari Story, KYOTOGRAPHIE, Kyoto, Japan
Geography, Documents and Works by RongRong & inri, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
2014Tsumari Story, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
 Tsumari Story, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012Rebirth from Ruins, RongRong & inri photography 2002-2009, Kuhlhause, Berlin, Germany
2011RongRong & inri, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
RongRong’s Ruins, Fragments and Wedding Gown Series: 1996 – 2000, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing 
Three Begets Ten Thousand Things: Photography by RongRong & inri, Shiseido Gallery, Japan; Blind Spot Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2010Compound Eye, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
RongRong & inri, MEM Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 
RongRong & inri: Selections from the Three Shadows Collection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2008RongRong & inri: The Power of Ruins. Between Destruction and Construction, Casa Asia, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
Ruins to Renewal: Works by RongRong & inri, SF Cameraworks, San Francisco, California
From Six Mile Village to Three Shadows: New Works by RongRong and inri, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2007RongRong & inri, Rencontres d' Arles, France
2006Liu Li Tun, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
The Third Space, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005Beyond, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2003Tui-Transfiguration: The Image World of RongRong and inri, Factory 798, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China, Hirshhorn, Washington D.C, USA
2019TURN OF THE CENTURY: PHOTOGRAPHY IN CHINA, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2016Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
 Intimate Curiosity - Invitation of Japanese Collectors of Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, China 
2015Photo Shanghai 2015, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
2014Hong Kong International Photography Festival, Hong Kong, China
 International East Asia Photo Culture Forum Exhibition, Higashikawa, Japan
 Challenge The Tradition: 20th Century Western Classical and Chinese Contemporary Photography, Inside-out Art Museum, Beijing, China
 China Photography 1911-2014, Stavanger Art Museum, Norway
 China ARTE Brazil Exhibiton, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2013"Love" 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
 New Framework Chinese Avant-garde Photography 1980-90s, Blind Spot Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2012Transformation: A View on Chinese Contemporary Art,Istanbul Modern, Turkey 
 WORLD BOUNDARY: Three Realms & Ten Directions Exhibition, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
 To Walk Alone: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Tokyo Photo, Tokyo, Japan
 Passing Through Memory, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
2011Interconnected: Selections from the Three Shadows Collection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
New Photography from China, Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2009Third Guangdong International Biennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Europalia — International Art Festival, Brussels Art Museum, Belgium
Couples in Contemporary Art, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2008Right Hand, Left Hand — Couples in Contemporary Art, MOCA Shanghai Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea
Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea
LASST HUNDERT BLUMEN BLÜHEN Der Dresdner Kunstverein, Germany
Dior & Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007Convection, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Net: Reimagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2006Inner Scopes, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Another World – Photography from China, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
intimate Beijing - Photography Exhibition (China-Japan-Netherlands), 706 Factory, Beijing, China
2005About Beauty, House of World Cultures, Berlin
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2004All Under Heaven, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Le moine et le demon: Art contemporain chinois, Musee Art Contemporain Lyon, France
5th Shanghai Biennale: Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2003A Strange Heaven, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2003-04Chinart, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany, Museo Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2002Dream 02, Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
Beijing Afloat: Beijing-Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China; Museum de Arte Brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001Chinese Contemporary Photography, Galerie Steinek-Halle, Vienna, Austria
Cross Pressures, The Finnish Museum of Photograph, Finland
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tate Modern, London, UK
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Heiner Wemhöner Collection, Herford, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA
Three Shadows Collection, Beijing, China
Miriam Guy Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
Ivory Press, Spain
The Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
LVMH Foundation, Paris, France
The Estella Collection, Denmark
Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland
He Xiangning Art Museum, China
Mori Art Museum, Japan
Spencer Foundation
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