contemporary art works

inri: b. 1973 in Kanagawa, Japan

1992 Certificate, Nippon Photography Institute, Tokyo
2000 - began collaboration with Rong Rong
2001KUNST Artist in Residence program - Vienna

Rong Rong: b. 1969 in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China

1986 Studied painting at Fujian Industrial Art Institute
1992 Entered Central Industrial Art Institute (Beijing), photography department
1993-5 Lived and worked in Beijing "East Village" artists community
2000 - began collaboration with inri
2001KUNST Artist in Residence program - Vienna

2007 Arles Photo Festival, France
2006 "CHINA NOW", Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
"RongRong & inri: the Third Space," solo exhibition, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin
"Mahjong – Chinese Artworks from the Sigg Collection," Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
2005 "Mahjong – Chinese Artworks from the Sigg Collection," Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
solo exhibition, Walsh Gallery, Chicago USA
"The Sacred and the Profane," Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin
"Über Schönheit," House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2004 "All Under Heaven," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
"Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China," ICP and Asia Society, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, USA
"The Monk and the Demon," Musee d' Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
2003 "Tui-Transfiguration," solo exhibition, 798 Factory, Beijing (curated by Wu Hung)
"Rong Rong's East Village," solo exhibition, Chambers Fine Art, NY
2000 "I giovani, il mondo de la fotografia," La Mostra Fotografica Internazionale, Alessandria, Italy
1999 "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the end of the Twentieth Century," curated by Wu Hung, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
La Biennale d' Issy, Paris, France
1998"Contemporary Chinese Photography," Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin