Education Information
09/2008-07/2010, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands
Program: MFA Painting
Master's Degree of Fine Arts
2009, exchange program at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, Philadelphia, USA
Program: MFA Painting
09/2005-06/2008, Art College of Sichuan University, Sichuan China
Program: Chinese Landscape Painting
Master's Degree of Fine Arts
09/2001-06/2005, College of Fine Arts of Southwest China Normal University, Chongqing, China
Program: Chinese Painting
Bachelor's Degree of Literature
Solo Projects
2016
Solo exhibition Absolute, Vanguard Galley, March 12-May 21, Shanghai, China
2015
Tri-Images--A Drawing Being Produced, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, April 18-June 10, Chengdu, China
2014
Manchester CMYK, solo project on Art 021, Vanguard Gallery, November, Shanghai, China
2013
Converging Energies—Two Solos by Bi Rongrong and Zhang Ruyi, V-Art Center, September 15th—October 4th, Shanghai, China
2012
Gas Station V--Two Solos by Bi Rongrong and Chen Tianzhuo, Vanguard Gallery, November 17th--December 16th, Shanghai, China
A Mural Project, Art De L'oisivete Pont-Aven, August, Pont-Aven, France
2011
"Ideal & Useless Space", Bazaar Compatible Program #4, XiYiTang, October 26th--November 20th, Shanghai, China
The Landscape is Called Sweet Faith, Museum aan de A7 (Rabobank Drachten), October 23rd, 2010--February 19th, 2011, the Netherlands
2010
When the Lines Turn into a Silhouette, stichting WEP, December 15th--January 15th, 2009-2010, Groningen, the Netherlands
Public Art Projects
2016
Breathe, Group Exhibition A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, July, West Sussex, UK
2014
A Tangible Shadow, public art project, building c, Sifang Collective, July, Nanjing, China
2013
7:3 Colors, public art project--SWFC 5th Anniversary Art Project, Shanghai World Financial Center, October to November, Shanghai, China
Collaboration Projects
2015
Stage setting "A Transformation of 'Tri-Image 2/3'" for the dance piece American Finch, stage project cooperated with Contemporary Dance artists Jutta Hell and Dieter Baumann, Uferstudio, September, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2016
We, Chi K11 Art Museum, March 4-May 2, Shanghai, China
2015
IVY ART 2015, Today Art Museum, September 12-21, Beijing, China
Collective Individualism II, Around Space Gallery, May 9--June 21, Shanghai, China
The 2nd 'CAFAM Future' Exhibition: Observer-Creator•The Reality Representation of Chinese Young Art, Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, January 15--March 1, Beijing, China
Creating For The Future: Thinking About The Unthinkable, the gallery exhibition of LEAP's online & print show, Momentum, February, Berlin, Germany
2014
PRESENT-ING RECITAL LOUDER THAN PAINT, Shanghai Gallery of Art, June 28—August 26, Shanghai, China
Collective Individualism I, Around Space Gallery, September 5--October 24, Shanghai, China
10th anniversary of Vanguard Gallery, Vanguard Gallery, March 14—April 20, Shanghai, China
2013
Studio, M50 Art Space, November 2013-March 2014, Shanghai, China
Art That Heels, 2013 Elle 25th Anniversary Special Project, V-Art Center, December, Shanghai, China
Ongerkend Young Masters @ Auction, November 2, Amsterdam, Holland
Waves, Bund 18 Temporary Art Space, May 2013-April 2014, Shanghai, China
2012
Zone Autonome Mutualisee, Vivarium, Biennale Off-Rennes, September 12th-October 28th, Rennes, France
Berliner Liste art fair, Pantocrator gallery/ La Pan, September 13th-16th, Berlin, Germany
Swab art fair, Pantocrator gallery/ La Pan, May 23-26 2012, Barcelona, Spain
Women's Lines, Pantocrator Gallery / La Pan, January, 2012, Barcelona, Spain
2011
Top Event, Session Three--Bi Rongrong Open Studio (The studio as an installation), West M50, September 5th-30th, 2011, Shanghai, China
Top Event, Session Two--Bi Rongrong Open Studio (Drawings), West M50, August 6th-14th, 2011, Shanghai, China
Top Event, Session one--Bi Rongrong Open Studio (Paintings and Murals), West M50, July 3rd-31st, 2011, Shanghai, China
Ongekend, Young Masters @Auction Rotterdam (Art Rotterdam 2011), February 13th, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2010
Present Work, Final Graduation Exhibition, Frank Mohr Institute, June-July, Groningen, the Netherlands
No Surface, Kunstruimte 09, May to July, Groningen, the Netherlands
Open Studio, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands
Once Mohr, Campis, January 14--Febrary 6, Assen, the Netherlands
2009
Albatross, Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, November 13--19, Philadelphia, USA
Tomorrow's Graduates Painting Frank Mohr--Wan Ku, Frank Mohr Institute, Painting Department, July 4-9, Groningen, the Netherlands
Show Master, Academie Minerva, May 20--29, Groningen, the Netherlands
2008
Sichuan University MFA Graduation Exhibition, June 25--July 5, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
On the Road, March 25--30, Wangjiang Campus, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
2005
Knowing White, Observing Black, Ink-wash Experimental Exhibition, Southwest China University, Chongqing, China
Residency
Breath Residency Programme, July-September，2014，Manchester, England
Swatch Peace Hotel Art Residency, March 1--August 31, 2013, Shanghai, China
Les Verrieres Residences-ateliers de Pont-Aven, July 2--September 28, 2012, France
Stichting Waddenwerk, August 1--31, 2009, Schiermonnikoog, the Netherlands
Collection
Painting It Happens in Time And Space 05/15 is collected by White Rabbit Museum, Australia
Installation A Tangible Shadow is collected by Sifang Collective, 2014, Nanjing
Installation The Landscape is Called Sweet Faith is collected by Museum aan de A7 (Rabobank Drachten), the Netherlands
And other private collections
Other Professional Experiences
Being the curator of the exhibition: On the Road--Group Exhibition of Water and Mountain Works by Postgraduate Students of Sichuan
University, Southwest University and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. March 25--30, 2008, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
