About The Artist
Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist and the founder of the Institute of Critical Zoologists. His artistic practice addresse humanity’s relationship with nature, and is characterised by a longstanding interest in investigating sites defined by the conflation of wilderness an urbanisation.
Arising from a research-oriented process, his artistic output spans and blurs the boundaries between the mediums of photography, video, mixed-media installations, and publications. In doing so, he realises stories and narratives that re-focus attention on the planet’s ecological imbalance in palpable ways.
Zhao received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Photography from Camberwell College of Arts and London College of Communication respectively. His work has been exhibited in international group shows such as Busan Biennale 2020; Singapore Biennale 2019; Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland, Australia, 2018; Jiwa: Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia, 2017; 7th Moscow Biennale, Russia, 2017; 20th Sydney Biennale, Australia 2016; Les Recontres d’Arles, France, 2015.
Amongst his more recent solo exhibitions in Singapore are The Nature Museum, commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Art (SIFA) and The Bizarre Honour, realised for OH! Open House, both in 2017. Zhao has undertaken residencies at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France, and Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, United States, and the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan.
He was awarded the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council in 2010 and was a finalist of Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2017, and a finalist of the Benesse Prize 2019.
[SOLD] #16 | 2011
By Robert Zhao Renhui
Archival Print | Edition 1/3 + 1AP
White frame with acrylic glaze
120cm x 84cm
Artworks are made during The Artic Circle Residency in Norway (2011).
From the series - “Glacier Study Group”.
The Glacier Study Group consist of scientists, artists, activists and people who are interested in glacial and polar activities in the Arctic Circle. The approach of the group is broad in terms of its scientific methods of investigation, data collection and glacier sampling. Global warming has seen an increase interest in glaciers and the group spend long periods each year (often as much as 6 months) at the extreme conditions of the Arctic investigating the melting of glaciers and its impact on the surrounding flora and fauna of the Arctic.
The images were taken during a 8 month period in 2011 when one of the biggest glacier in the Arctic receded by more then a third of its volume.
Starting Bid: $5,000
(Minimum Increment︎︎︎: $500)
By Robert Zhao Renhui
Archival Print | Edition 1/3 + 1AP
White frame with acrylic glaze
120cm x 84cm
Artworks are made during The Artic Circle Residency in Norway (2011).
From the series - “Glacier Study Group”.
The Glacier Study Group consist of scientists, artists, activists and people who are interested in glacial and polar activities in the Arctic Circle. The approach of the group is broad in terms of its scientific methods of investigation, data collection and glacier sampling. Global warming has seen an increase interest in glaciers and the group spend long periods each year (often as much as 6 months) at the extreme conditions of the Arctic investigating the melting of glaciers and its impact on the surrounding flora and fauna of the Arctic.
The images were taken during a 8 month period in 2011 when one of the biggest glacier in the Arctic receded by more then a third of its volume.
Starting Bid: $5,000
(Minimum Increment︎︎︎: $500)
