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.
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B. 1997 in China. Lives and works in London
Education
2021-2023 Royal College of Art (RCA) Sept. 2021-Jul. 2023 MFA in Fine Art, Sculpture
2018-2021 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) BA Fine Art Sculpture
2015-2018 China Academy of Art (CAA) BA Fine Art in Sculpture and Public Space
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 BUFFER 2, Guts Gallery, London
2023 Triple Bill, the Artist’s Garden, London
2023 A New Day, A New Dawn, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London 2023 Middlesbrough Art Week, Middlesbrough, UK
2023 Land Art Festival of Huang Songyu Pinggu Beijing, Beijing, China
2023 J_a_in, Tang Musume, GuangDong, China
2023 Up in the Air (Beijing Gallery Week), Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China
2023 Hung, Drawn &Quartered, Standpoint Gallery (Residency), London
2022 Metamorphosis of Rhythm, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
2022 ReA! Art Fair 2022, Via Ruggero Boscovich, Milan, Italy
2022 Muddy Mudlarks, Candid Arts Trust, London
2022 EXPO CHICAGO 2022, Navy Pier Festival Hall, Chicago, USA
Awards
2023 The CoLab/RCA/YSP Graduate Award and Residency/ Top 1 with Bonus of British Pounds 600
2022 UCCA Lab New Emerging Artists Program 2022/ Top 10 with Bonus of RMB 5000
2022 New Contemporaries 2022 Shortlist