ARTISTS
Artists ─ Represented
Ronghui Chen
Known for：〈Freezing Land〉 〈Petrochemical China〉
(b.1989 ) Graduated from Yale MFA of Photography, is a Chinese photographer based in Hangzhou and New York. He has won a number of awards including World Press Photo; BarTur Photo Award; Three Shadows Photography Award & AlPA special prize and Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award. Chen has exhibited in Les Rencontres d’Arles, OCAT, ICP museum, Format Festival, Photoville, and more. His series Freezing Land has had dedicated reviews in Art in America, The Guardian, New York Times, and FT Magazine. A photobook of the same series published by Jiazazhi was nominated for the 2020 Aperture Foundation & ParisPhoto First Photobook Award.
Solo Exhibition
2024
Modern Shanghai, UP Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2023
Paris Photo 2023, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
Personal: A New Form of Documentary Photography, Shanghai Photography of Center , Shanghai, China
2022
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven: Chen Ronghui Solo Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center +3 Gallery, Beijing, China
In Praise of Shadows: Chen Ronghui’s Solo Exhibition, UP Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
”19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei” solo-piece exhibition, Home Gallery, New York, USA
Participating artist, Taipei Dangdai 2022, Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
Land of Ambition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center +3 Gallery, Xiamen, China
2020
Land of Ambition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center +3 Gallery, Beijing, China
Freezing Land, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
Freezing Land, UP Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2018
Freezing Land, Photography Museum of Lishui, Lishui, China
Freezing Land, Modern Art Base, Shanghai, China
2015
All The Way North, IG Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
Group Exhibition
2024
Paris Photo 2024 – Duo Exhibition of Ronghui Chen and Arthur Ou, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2023
Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
Personal: A New Form of Documentary Photography, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
Shadows, Cadence Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022
The Port and the Image III – Echoes of the Port curated by He Yining,
China Port Museum, Ningbo, China
Healing in the Heart of Storm, Cang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Formosa, Eslite Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
Dead Letter Office, Yale 2021 Photography MFA thesis exhibition, Malborough Gallery, New
York, USA
SORRY, WE MISSED YOU, Yale 2021 Photography MFA thesis exhibition, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, USA
Resonance-A Tribute to Robert Frank, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1, Taipei, Taiwan
2020
Resonance-A Tribute to Robert Frank, Jimei&Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
Flowing Waters Never Return to the Source, Jumièges Abbey, France
Runaway World, Gaotai Gallery, Xinjiang, China
About Us. Young Photography from China, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, München, Germany
2019
Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Photo London, London, UK
Format Festival, UK
Contemporary Chinese Photography, Angkor Photo Festival, Thailand
FIELD MEETING, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Dubai
2018
Social Geography Ten journeys with a camera, SCôP, Shanghai, China
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT Shenzhen, China
3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, China
Documenting China, Stories of Change, Photoville, New York, USA
ICP PROJECTED: EMERGING ANALOG, ICP Museum, New York, USA
Art Beijing, Beijing, China
2017
Speaker at New Peak Project conference on photography, Zhejiang University, China
Lishui Photography Festival, China
China Through Chinese Eyes, Photoville, New York
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2nd Changjiang International Photography Biennial, Chongqing
Contemporary Photography of Zhejiang, Cipa Gallery, Beijing
2016
Jimei & Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
Go East Project, UNDEF/NE, Shanghai, China
Speaker at Ray Art Center conference on The Lens Facing Reality, Shanghai, China
Taipei International Photography Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, China
Reviews & Publications
2024
Talent spotter, Chen Ronghui, The Asia Pivot, Artnet pro
2023
陳榮輝: 攝影是一種搏鬥，但無關乎真假, WSJ China
2022
Photos of the real China: the rise and rise of photographer Chen Ronghui, Post Magazine
沈奇嵐”膠囊”專欄 1|陳榮輝: 恐懼、奔跑與創作, Artnet (China)
2020
Freezing Land, Jiazazhi
40 years of Contemporary China, Zhejiang Photography Publishing House
Ronghui Chen Photographs Depict Home As Both Confining and Comforting , Art in America
The growth and transformation of China’s youngest World Press Photo Winner: Slowing down is Breaking, The Initium
2019
Ronghui Chen photographs the young people of China’s forgotten “Freezing Lands”, IT’S NICE THAT
The photographers capturing the nuances of Chinese youth culture, DAZED
Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans, NYT Magazine
The view from China-in picture, The Guardian
5 Photographers Capturing Chinese Youth Culture Today, Artsy
2019
China’s shrinking cities: ‘Most of my classmates have left, FT magazine
Shrinking Cities in China, Springer
Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt, The New York Times
Forever/Now, British Journal of Photography
Freezing Land, Lensculture
The young and lonely hearts of China’s shrinking cities, National Geographical
2018
“Ronghui Chen” China’s Contemporary Photography Catalog, Zhejiang Photography Publishing House
Photos: China’s surreal, larger-than-life amusement parks, QUARTZ
2017
Nine Chinese Photographers You Need to Follow, Time Magazine
Awards & Collections
2024
Finalists, UCCA Young Associates
2021
Richard Benson Prize, Yale University
2020
Nominee, 2020 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist: First PhotoBook, Aperture foundation & Paris Photo
Finalists, The W.Eugene Smith Grant for students
Winner, BarTur Photo Award 2020
2019
2019-2020 Sanyu Scholarship, Yale University
Nominee, 10th ANNIVERSARY PRIX PICTET COMMISSION
Nominee, C/O Berlin TALENT AWARD
2018
Finalists, The Emerging Photographer Fund, Burn Magazine 2018
Winner, Photography, China National Art Funds
Juror’s Picks, Lensculture Emerging Talents 2018
1st place, PDN storyteller
Winner, 10th Three Shadows Photography Award & ALPA prize
Nominee, Foam Paul Huf Award, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
2017
Winner, 6th Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award
Nominee, Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo
Nine Chinese Photographers You Need to Follow, Time Magazine (Light Box)
2016
Best Photography of the Year, China Photography Museum
Winner, The Multimedia Project of the Year, Tencent News
2015
Outstanding Participant, Magnum Photos Workshops in Shanghai
2nd Prize, Category of Contemporary Issue, 58th World Press Photo
2014
Best Photography Journalist of 2013, China Photographers Association
Photograph and Arts Creation Foundation, Sina Photo
M+ (HK)
Shanghai Center of Photography (SCôP)
Alexander Tutsek Foundation
Photography Museum of Lishui
Light Society
Sea World Culture and Arts Center
National Gallery of Victoria
