Biography
Lingfei Ren is a lens-based artist, producer and curator living in Jersey City, US. She graduated from BA Fine Arts at Southeast University, Nanjing, China, followed by MA Arts Management at George Mason University, Washington DC, and MFA Photography, Video and Related Media at School of Visual Arts, New York City. Her works discuss the definition of “home” and reveal urban people’s life conditions and the psychological affect from frequent moves. Ren started her career as an art educator working and interning at Shanghai Museum, Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Now she is a curator at space240 NYC and a photographer for WSJ. Magazine and Wallpaper*.
Group Exhibitions
2020 Arm's Reach, SVA Gallery, New York City, US
2020 Take/Make, Photo Fringe, Brighton, UK
2020 The 20th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2020 Unbounded Project, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen, China
2020 #ICPConcerned, The International Center of Photography, New York City, US
2020 Interior Life, Filter Space, Chicago, US
2019 People's Choice, Greenpoint Gallery, New York City, US
2019 Small and Smaller, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York City, US
2019 When Black Swallows Red, La Mama La Galleria, New York City, US
2019 Object & Reflex, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York City, US
Production
Producer, Feed_Back (short film), 2020
Photographer/Videographer/Editor/Music, Melanie Surya - Deux F/W Campaign 2020
Photographer, "Marc Glimcher and Superblue," WSJ. Magazine China, Issue October 2020
Producer/Photographer, "The Daughter of the Earth," PAP Magazine, Issue April 2020
Photographer, "We Are Not: Adam Pendleton," Wallpaper* China, Issue March 2020
Videographer, A Performance by Rue Bainbridge at Pace Gallery, 2019
Photographer, "Cheer Leader: Raymond Pettibon," Wallpaper* China, Issue Nov/Dec 2019
Producer/Director of Photography/Editor/Music, Split (fashion film), 2019
Director of Photography, In Reality (fashion film), 2019
Assistant Photographer, "Ugo Rondinone," T Magazine, Issue April 2019
Assistant Photographer, "Marcel Dzama," Wallpaper* China, Issue May/June 2019
Assistant Photographer, "Jeff Koons," GQ China, Issue April 2018
Videographer/Editor, Artists' Profiles, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2017
Curatorial
2019 Kanak Guo: Strange Him, Space240, New York City, US
Press/Publications
2020 "Surplus Management (In and Out of Order)," Der Greif, Issue 13, 2020
2020 "Discover the Art World’s Rising Stars In These 2020 MFA Graduate Shows," Lucy Rees, Galerie Magazine, July 10, 2020, Online