Biography
Lingfei Ren is a lens-based artist, producer and curator living in Jersey City, US. She received her MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, her BA in Fine Arts at Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and an MA in Arts Management at George Mason University, Washington DC. Her art practices discuss the definition of “home” and reveal urban people’s life conditions and the psychological affect from frequent moves. She also explores identity, media, and the construction of society.
Ren started her career working and interning at Shanghai Museum, Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Now she works at Fotografiska New York, is the Senior Photo Editor at Musée Magazine, an independent curator, and a photographer and videographer for various clients.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Do-Until Loop Parade, The Exhibition in a Box, New York City, US
2020 2020 Visions, SVA Gallery, New York City, US, online
2020 Arm's Reach, SVA Gallery, New York City, US, online
2020 Take/Make, Photo Fringe, Brighton, UK, online
2020 #ICPConcerned, The International Center of Photography, New York City, US
2020 The 20th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2020 Unbounded Project, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen, China
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
Selected Productions
2020- Photographer/Photo Editor, Digitalize artworks and antiques for collectors and art dealers
2021 Photographer/Videographer, Invocations: Retracing Seneca, A Public Walk with Karen Finley & Kimiyo Bremer
2021 Director/Director of Photography, Chop Suey Club Social Media Campaign
2020 Producer/Production Manager, Feed_Back (short film)
2020 Photographer/Videographer/Editor/Music Composer, Deux · Melanie Surya F/W Campaign
2020 Photographer/Photo Editor, "Marc Glimcher: Defining the Avant Garde," WSJ. Magazine China, Issue October
2020 Producer/Photographer/Photo Editor, "The Daughter of the Earth," PAP Magazine, Issue April
2020 Photographer/Photo Editor, "We Are Not: Adam Pendleton," Wallpaper* China, Issue March
2019 Videographer, A Performance by Rue Bainbridge at Pace Gallery
2019 Photographer/Photo Editor, "Cheer Leader: Raymond Pettibon," Wallpaper* China, Issue Nov/Dec
2019 Producer/Director of Photography/Editor/Music Composer, 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
2018 Assistant Photographer, "Jeff Koons," GQ China, Issue April
2017 Videographer/Editor, Artists' Profiles, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Curatorial
2021 Tianjin Photography Festival, National Convention & Exhibition Center, Tianjin, China (upcoming)
2019 Kanak Guo: Strange Him, Space240, New York City, US
Awards
2020 Video, Fine Art, Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards
2020 Collage, Fine Art, Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards
2020 Winner of the Professionals' Choice, Danny Wilson Awards, Photo Fringe
2019 Alice Beck-Odette Scholarship
Talks
2021 Artist Talk, Do-Until Loop Parade, New York City, US, online
2021 Artist Talk: Lingfei Ren, Fringe Photo, Brighton, UK, online
Press/Publications
2021 Starting A New Conversation on Photography in China: An Interview with Liu Heung Shing and Karen Smith, June 22, online
2021 Curation at the Guggenheim: Interview with Nat Trotman, Musée Magazine, May 25, online
2021 Lingfei Ren, Metropolitan Zoo, Musée Magazine, Issue 25, printed
2021 Women's History Month: Interview with Funa Ye, Musée Magazine, Mar 31, online
2020 Lingfei Ren, From That Day On, Der Greif, Nov 18, online
2020 Surplus Management (In and Out of Order), Der Greif, Issue 13, printed
2020 Discover the Art World’s Rising Stars In These 2020 MFA Graduate Shows, Galerie Magazine, July 10, online