Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China, in 1987; based in Beijing.
He has had multiple solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.
Photography works have been published in both Chinese and international magazines and books.
Winner of Premio Terna 03 (Terna Prize for Contemporary Art) in 2010.
Published solo photography books: Ren Hang, Room, Nude, My Depression and Republic.
Solo exhibition
2013
2013 May [Pulse] Galerie Jane Zhang Frankfurt, Germany
2011
2011 October [Stillbirth] YUGONG YISHAN live house Beijing, China
2011 October [ALLERGY] Ren Hang photography solo exhibition Kubrick Beijing, China
2010
2010 October [INTERCOURSE WITH BEIJING] Ren Hang photography exhibition YUGONG YISHAN live house Beijing, China
2010 July [ Eat Naked Lunch!] RenHang photography exhibition YUYINTANG live house Shanghai, China
Group exhibition
2013
2013 July-September FACELESS part 1 Museums Quartier Vienna, Austria
2013 July-September ATYPICAL Beijing Space, Beijing, China
2013 August As the resident artist by invitation of Vienna Museums Quartier
2013 May [Fuck Off 2] Chinese Contemporary Art Document Groninger Museum Netherlands
2012 January EQUAL RELATIONSHIPS Bilndspot Gallery HongKong,China
2013 Januar FUCK TABOO Camera16 Gallery Milan, Italy
2013 March A Miscellany of Arts---The Visual Rhetoric of the Young Generation Suzhou,China
2013 March REMOTE OLACES,CLOSE SPACES Street Level Photoworks Gallery Scotland, UK
2012
2012 September Secret Love Oriental Museum in Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 September Memory Lost and Found young artists group exhibition Beijing Space, Beijing, China
2012 July Central Academy of Fine Arts First CAFAM future development CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, China
2012 July FéROCES REN HANG / JORDANE YARDEN GAUDENZI Double photographic exhibition Avi Niang silk France
2012 May [Originate from energy resource] Multimedia Art Museum Moscow . Moscow Russia
2012 March [Symptoms], Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2011
2011 December FéROCES international photography festival 2011 France
2011 November [restaurant] Light Room photography exhibition J Gallery Shanghai China
2011 October [Sour sweet bitter spicy] four photographers’ exhibition angers France
2011 August Rencontres d'Arles festival -THE VIEWER exhibition Arles France
2011 July [recurrent shadows]selected works from three shadows photography Awards 2008-2011 HE XIANG NING art museum Sehenzhen, China
2011 May [ Young Movement] photography exhibition Iseael
2011 May [the fourth 54 international young art festival 2011] 798 art area Beijing, China
2011 April [three shadows photography award] three shadows photography art centre Beijing, China
2011 January Curated by Rong Rong –Qiu&Ren Hang INNER EAR. UCCA Beijing, China
2010
2010 December The third TERNA comtemporary art exhibition . Rome, Milan, Italy
2010 December [WARMTH] 2010 -2011 new year art exhibition Shanghai, China
2010 November [new photography magazine photography exhibition ] group exhibition Hong Kong, China
2010 August 798 festival young [THIS THIS IS ME] with attitude photography exhibition Beijing, China
2010 June [THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL ART COMTEMPORARY FESTIVAL OF CHINA JI ME] Xiamen, China
2010 May [INTO THE MOOD] art exhibition Hong Kong China
2010April CHINA CAOCHANGDI photography TORATORATORA photography exhibition CAOCHANGDI Beijing, China
2010 April [experiment] 2010 SCREENAGE art document exhibition SONG ZHUANG Art Museum Beijing, China
2009
2009 December 80’s and Peaceful Evolution visual group exhibition Hong Kong, China
2009 September [femininity. Photography] international photography exhibition ‘paradise with love’feminity theme photography exhibition Nanjing, China
2009 August [private talk] photography exhibition Shanghai, China
2009 June [GENDER DIVISITY] art exhibition SONG ZHUANG Art Area Beijing, China
« Provocateur mais aussi poétique. » C'est ainsi que le FOAM d'Amsterdam présente le travail de Ren Hang, exposé en ce moment-même dans l'institution hollandaise. Comme une dernière provocation ou un ultime et macabre poème, l'artiste chinois vient de se donner la mort à l'âge de 29 ans.
Traverser les images de Ren Hang, de 2008 à 2016, c'est s'embarquer pour un voyage en chair bien connue, celle de ses amis qui lui servaient de modèles, le plus souvent déshabillés. A ses débuts, on retient la photographie d'un homme nu, replié comme un fœtus. Faut-il y voir le débutant, l'autodidacte de 21 ans, l'amateur inspiré qui déploiera les corps et l...
Thursday, June 5th, 2014 at 19 pm at Officine Fotografiche, Rome is inaugurated the 10th edition of FotoLeggendo. Opens the photo-festival the exhibition Il diario di Felix by Emiliano Mancuso curated by Renata Ferri , taken from a documentary project filmed by Emiliano at Casa Felix, the family-home for troubled teen, in Torrespaccata in Rome.
It continues Friday, June 6 at ISA Institute, with the opening of 11 of the 15 shows scheduled for this 10th edition of Fotoleggendo, made with the support of the City of Rome - Department of Culture Creativity and Artistic Promotion - Department of Culture and with the support of the Regional Council of Lazio and Rome City Hall VIII, organized and produced by Officine Fotografiche Roma.
It's been 10 years since the "laboratories" of Officine Fotografiche,...
Press release - Provocative, but also poetic. Foam is exhibiting the explicit photographs of Ren Hang (1987, CN). The photographer was selected by the Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund during the Unseen Photo Fair 2016, his exhibition at Foam is the result.
Naked youths, mostly Chinese and every one as beautiful and unashamed as the next, take centre stage in the work of Ren Hang. Swans, peacocks, fish and snakes, as well as cherries, apples, flowers, plants and trees are all employed as absurd yet poetic accessories. The male models usually come from Hang’s own circle of friends, while the female models apply through the photographer’s website. The girls all meet his ideal of beauty: lily-white skin, usually black hair, red lipstick and painted nails. They pose willingly in well-balanced poses, or intimatel...
Temporary Boundary est une proposition curatoriale en deux volets, révélant une sélection de photographies
et de vidéos d’artistes contemporains chinois censurées dans leur pays.
La Galerie Paris-Beijing est très fière d’accueillir le commissariat de CIFA-China Independent Film Archive
pour la partie vidéo de l’exposition.
Dans la partie photographique dont la sélection a été pensée par Romain Degoul, fondateur de la Galerie, on
retrouve notamment des travaux des Gao Brothers : depuis les années 80, les deux frères pratiquent la satire
politique à travers leurs oeuvres - ce qui leur vaut une étroite surveillance. Régulièrement, deux gardes sont
posté...
Temporary Boundary is a curatorial project presented in two parts, revealing a selection of contemporary Chinese photographs and artist's videos that have been censured in their own country. Galerie Paris-Beijing is very proud to host the curator of CIFA-China Independent Film Archive for the video part of the exhibition.
Among the photographic works, the selection of which was conceived by Romain Degoul, the gallery’s founder, we find works by the Gao Brothers: since the 1980s, the two brothers have been practicing politi- cal satire through their pieces, which has brought them under close surveillance. Two guards are regularly posted at the entrance of their studio.
© Liu Wei - vidéo A Day To Remember
The photograph Now-ing, by Chi Peng was censured right in the middle of the SH Contem...
Provocative and direct. At the same time, aesthetic, humorous and poetic. The photographs of the Chinese artist Ren Hang (b. 1986) fascinate because of their radical imagery. OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie presents the most comprehensive exhibition of the young shooting star in Europe to date.
Ren Hang’s analogue photographs are about human emotions, relationships and friendships, and also fear and loneliness. Young women and men – mostly friends of the artist – pose naked in vulnerable, occasionally explicit poses. With their gaze often directed straight at the camera, the models always assume an active role. In the portraits, taken in front of monochromatic backdrops, on the roof of high-rise buildings or in natural landscapes, animals such as snakes, birds or cats and flowers appear as prop...
Du 26 au 29 mars 2015, Art Paris Art Fair constitue le temps fort de l’actualité parisienne. Art Paris Art Fair invite à la découverte et dévoile une autre géographie de l’art qui passe par Casablanca, Bangkok, Moscou, Munich, Sarajevo, Zürich ou Singapour…
Quelque 145 galeries de 20 pays y présentent un panorama divers de l’art moderne et contemporain qui inclut également la photographie, le design et l’édition d’art.
Singapour et l’Asie du Sud-Est seront à l’honneur pour la première fois en France avec notamment un pavillon de galeries singapouriennes représentant des artistes de la région Sud-Asiatique.
© Thomas Jorion, Luys, Arménie, 2011 / Galeri...
Capricious 88 is proud to present 2014, the first New York exhibition of Beijing-based photographer Ren Hang. In these new photographs, Hang investigates the complex optics of camouflage, focusing on the ways the human and natural worlds vanish into one another.
In 2014, Hang’s human subjects tessellate into one another and into landscape, creating works that simultaneously image brutality and tenderness, desire and ambivalence. In his diaristic portraiture, Hang complicates the formal properties of the nude by examining natural patterns in how bodies interact: limbs, torsos, and faces double and triple, introducing an element of improvisatory play into his otherwise sculptural compositions.
At the heart of this work lies the question of the camera’s relationship to the representation of the naked human...
‘Prenez un appareil photo à moins de 15 euros que vous achetez sur E-bay, amusez vous à faire des clichés de vos amis nus et voyez ce que vous obtenez .’ Ren Hang lui, lorsqu’il il shoote ses amis, la lumière est dure (flash frontal), les couleurs saturées sans profondeur de champs , et pour autant les clichés sont d’une infinie poésie .
Découvrir le travail de ce jeune chinois né en 1987, c’est entrer dans une expérience physique, sensuelle et avant tout poétique. On parle de lui comme le Terry Richardson de l’Asie, certes la comparaison est évidente, mais ce jeune artiste de 26 ans est beaucoup plus qu’une pâle copie du ‘bobo’ américain.
REN HANG poétise la sexualité de la jeunesse chinoise d’aujourd’hu...
« Depuis 2006, mes pas m’ont mené régulièrement en Asie du Sud-Est à la rencontre des artistes et des photographes. Le programme de cette exposition s’est construit au fil des rencontres et des amitiés. ASEAN est une exposition entre poésie et document. Une rencontre avec des images faisant disparaitre la frontière entre la magie et la pensée cartésienne. En Asie du Sud-Est, une redéfinition de la modernité se profile bien loin du modèle occidental qui s’effrite lentement. » - Nicolas Havette, Direction artistique
M comme malaise - Minstrel Kuik (Kajan)
© Minstrel Kuik
« La poésie incarne la liberté et l’intensité de la pensée. Le lien entre la photographie et la poésie, je pense, réside...
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present “Equal Relationships” featuring two Mainland Chinese photography artists, 223 (aka Lin Zhi Peng) and Ren Hang. Both artists’ works are often regarded as Personal Photography, a genre becoming increasingly popular in the contemporary Chinese photography scene since the past decade.
223 and Ren Hang both utilize the photographic medium as an essential means to express individualism and existential concerns. By portraying their own generation in modern day China, their images reflect the spontaneous and random living conditions in the subculture, contrasting the upbeat with the gloomy. Their images also blur the boundaries between private and public by displaying their intimate lives and close acquaintances, and giving significance to the mundane.
Visually, 22...