中国・吉林省長春市生まれ。「性」がタブーとされる中国で、友人をモデルにヌードを中心に撮り続ける同国を代表する写真家。これまでに、北京、パリ、ニューヨーク、東京などで展覧会を開催し、パリフォトやフォトバーゼルなど数々の国際的アートフェアに出展。2010年にはイタリアTERNA現代芸術賞に入賞。2011年、自費出版による写真集『REN HANG 2009-2011』と『ROOM』を発表し、以降多数の写真集を刊行した。2017年逝去。

出版物

2011 - Ren Hang 2009–2011. China: self-published,
2011 - Room. China: self-published
2012 - Nude. China: self-published
2012 - Republic. Norway: Éditions du LIC
2013 - Poem Collection of Renhang. Taiwan: Neurasthenia
2013 - My depression. China: self-published
2013 - Son and bitch. Taiwan: Neurasthenia
2013 - The brightest light runs too fast. France: Editions Bessard
2014 - Physical borderline. China: ThreeShadows +3 Gallery
2015 - Food issue. China: Same studio
2015 - 野生 = Wild. Germany, Die Nacht
2015 - New Love 新欢. USA: Session 6, Session Press
2015 - 上海游客 Shanghai Visitors. China: self-published,
2015 - 海鲜派对 Seafood Party. China: self-published
2016 - 一月 January. China: self-published
2016 - 二月 February. China: self-published
2016 - March. China: self-published
2016 - April. China: self-published
2016 - May. China: self-published
2016 - June. China: self-published
2016 - July. China: self-published,
August. China: self-published
2016 - September. China: self-published
2016 - October. China: self-published
2016 - November. China: self-published
2016 - Athens Love 雅典的爱. USA: Session 8, Session Press
2017 - Word or two 只言片語. USA: BHKM

個展

2014 - In Addition to Sleep, Fotogallerie vaslisouza, Oslo
2014 - Hide by Ren Hang, MOST 2414 & MOST Gallery, Soy Sauce Factory, Bangkok
2014 - In Addition to Sleep, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 - The Wild, OstLicht [de], Vienna, Austria
2015 - Ren Hang, 2014, Gallery Capricious 88, 88 Eldridge Street, 5th FL, New York, USA
2015 - #OccupyAtopos exhibition, part of the artist residency program, ATOPOS cvc, Athens
2015 - Athens Love, Klein Sun Gallery, New York
2017 - Naked/Nude, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2017 - Human Love, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 - Ren Hang, posthum, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany, coop. w. OstLicht, Vienna,
2019 - Love, Ren Hang, posthum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2019; C/O Berlin, Berlin
2020 - Ren Hang. Nudi, posthum, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

受賞

2010 - Third Terna Contemporary Art Award, Italy
2016 - Outset|Unseen Exhibition Fund

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