Rong Bao

Rong Bao is a multimedia artist based in London.  She completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2023 and previously studied Public Sculpture at the China Academy of Art and School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her BFA in 2021 with Distinguished Scholarship.  She was one of the Top 10 China UCCA Lab x Perrier New Emerging Artists and was shortlisted for UK New Contemporaries in 2022. And She is also the recipient of theCoLAb/RCA/YSP award the Her 2023 exhibitions include Middlesbrough Art Week, at Bomb Factory, Guts Gallery and as part of Hung, Drawn & Quartered, Standpoint Gallery London. Past exhibitions include: Beijing (Pinggu) Land Art Festival, Beijing Spurs Gallery, and Beijing Gallery weekend, EXPO CHICAGO 2022. She is co-president for ‘Walkative Society’ in 2022-2023.

Rong’s work explores themes of deviance, defamiliarization, futility, interaction, and mischievousness. Her work challenges conventional norms and expectations, presenting familiar objects or concepts in new and unfamiliar ways that encourage viewers to question their previously held beliefs. By exaggerating the feeling of defamiliarization, Rong Bao wants to encourage audiences not only to discover and experience vulnerability, but also to be tricked, and further to question the conventions of this world and discover the discourses of power behind.