Biography


Huang Guaier + Wang Runzhong, born in China, are a multimedia artist duo based in Shanghai and New York City. Their work interrogates the ontological meaning of photography, as well as explores the possibilities of contemporary photography across the overlaps of multiple fields. Their projects contextualize from philosophical and political theories, question the increasingly ocular-centric and precarious society, and critique the binary systems in the western academia. 

Huang holds Bachelors of Sciences in Psychology and Forensic Science from Syracuse University, and Wang holds Bachelors in Automation Engineering and TV Directing from Communication University of China. They both graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Photography department at Parsons School of Design. Their work has been exhibited in international museums and festivals, including 2018 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition in Beijing, “2017 Top 20 Cutting-Edge Photographers in China” at Zhejiang Art Museum, the theme show “Your Selfie Stick” at 2017 Lianzhou Foto Festival, China, “Governing Bodies” at Aronson Gallery, New York, and “Open Books: An Open Dialogue” at Connecticut College, New London. 



黄乖儿+汪润中是工作和生活于上海和纽约的艺术家组合。他们的作品使用摄影、视频、行为表演、书、雕塑与装置等多种媒介，挑战了人们对于摄影及其程式的预设，并质疑了日趋严重的视觉中心化社会。

他们的作品曾入选三影堂摄影奖（三影堂摄影艺术中心，北京，2018）、青年艺术100（嘉德艺术中心，北京，2018）、刷屏/劳作（南京艺术学院美术馆AMUNA，南京，2018）、Top20新锐摄影奖（浙江美术馆，杭州，2017）、连州国际摄影年展主题展（连州，2017）、第二届长江影像双年展（重庆长江当代美术馆，重庆，2017）、中国册页：开放的书页（Connecticut College，新伦敦，2017）等国内外展览。策展项目包括“The Reconfigured Selfhood”（Hunter College 205 Gallery，纽约），“Governing Bodies”（Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries，纽约）等。

 

Email: guaierandrunzhong@gmail.com
WeChat: huangguaier

CV



Exhibitions

2022

  • “Healing in the Heart of Storm,” Cang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2021

  • “The Running Water Takes Me to a Farther Lake,” Meisyakan, Ningbo, China

  • Chiri Photography Festival, Enjoy Art Museum, Beijing, China

2020

  • “The Implications of the Camera,” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA

  • “Time Perception: Through Images and Installations,” Coutts Art Center, Shanghai, China

  • “Harmony in Diversity: New Senses,” The Mix Place, Hefei, China.

  • “A Ripple in the Data Flow,” Online Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2019

  • Photographies 2020 Conference: Photography In Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • “Person, Place or Thing: New Ideas in Photography,” Sharon Art Center Gallery, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Peterborough, NH

  • “Where Are We Going?,” School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

  • “New Art from China 2019,” Islamabad Artfest 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan.

2018

  • 2018 Photo-ADT Coming Image, Art Museum of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • 2018 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China

  • 2018 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Xiamen Center, Xiamen, China

  • 2018 European Literature Night, Czech Center New York, New York, NY

  • 2018 Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China

  • "NOW", Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY

  • AMNUA International Exhibition of Photography, "Screen Refreshing. Labor", Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China

  • "The Reconfigured Selfhood", Hunter College 205 Gallery, New York, NY

  • "Outsider", Yui Gallery, New York, NY

  • "NOW", Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing, China

  • abC Art Book in China, M Woods Museum, Beijing, China

  • “Apparatus of Discomfort”, 3 Gallery, New York, NY

2017

  • 20th Chinese Cutting-Edge Contemporary Photography Exhibition Top 20, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

  • Lianzhou Foto Festival 2017, "Your Selfie Stick (and You)", Lianzhou, Guangdong, China

  • “Governing Bodies", Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY

  • “Open Books: A New Dialogue”, Connecticut Collage Library, New London, CT

  • Photoville Photography Festival 2017, "Apparatus of Discomfort", Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY

  • “Now, An Unbecoming”, Skybridge Gallery, New York, NY

  • "Manifestos Unheard" Performance Art Show, 25East Gallery, New York, NY

  • "Save As...", 3rd Lab, Chongqing, China

  • BABZ Art Book Fair, Knockdown Center, New York, NY

  • Photography, Artbook@MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

  • Photography, Printed Matter, New York, NY

  • "Photo, Matters.", 25East Gallery, New York, NY

  • Lishui International Photo Festival, "If Art Could Start Over", Lishui, Zhejiang, China

  • 17th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

  • 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China

2016

  • 16th Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

  • "(Re) Public". Post-election, 3 Gallery, New York, NY

 

 

Publications & Honors

2022

  • Floating Island: Photography and Visual Cultural Studies (ed. by He Yining). Issue 1, May 2022. Publisher: Jiazazhi.

2020

2019

  • “Contemporary Photographic Art in the Age of A.I.”, Chinese Photography (ISSN 0529-6420), Issue.476, Feb. 2019.

  • The Shanghai Literary Review, Issue 5, December, 2019

2018

  • Photography Is Art Magazine (ISSN 2523-0824), Issue 12, Dec. 2018.

  • “Interlink”, 2018 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition Catalogue, Zhejiang Photographic Publishing House, ISBN 978-7-5514-2139-3.

  • "Top 20 Cutting-Edging Photographers", Chinese Photography (ISSN 2304-7577), Issue. 463, Jan. 2018.

  • "Best New Photographers of the Year 2017", Fotomen Magazine (ISSN 1004-0153), Issue. 395, Jan. 2018.

  • “How do you be yourself in the virtual world?”, Modern Weekly (ISBN 6943144408018), Issue 1026, Aug. 2018.

  • Parsons Photography Scholarship 2018

2017

  • 2017 Top 20 Chinese Contemporary Photographers Exhibition. Zhejiang Photographic Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5514-2076-1.

  • Natural Growth: Cases of 100 Chinese Photographers born after 1985. China Photographic Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5179-0653-7.

  • Parsons Photography Scholarship 2017

 

interviews & Reviews

2018

2017

 

Public Collections

  • Arts Council Malta in New York, U.S.

  • Zhejiang Art Museum

 

Artist Talks

  • “Re-functionalized Touch-Vision: Transindividuating Participants in a Technical Reality,” Photographies Conference: Photography in Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore.

  • "Cultural Heterotopia: Asian Identities, Languages, and Contemporary Art", SIPA at Columbia University, New York, U.S.

 

   

  • 展览


2022

  • “于风暴中心治愈我“，仓美术馆，杭州，中国 

2021

  • “流水把我带向更远的湖里“，明写馆，宁波，中国

  • 迟日摄影节，悦美术馆，北京，中国

2020

  • “The Implications of the Camera,” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, 宾夕法尼亚州，美国

  • “时间知觉：装置影像展”， 库茨艺术中心，上海，中国

  • “和而不同”， 长江和集，合肥，中国

  • “A Ripple in the Data Flow,” 线上展览, 纽约视觉艺术学院，纽约，美国

2019

  • Photographies 2020 Conference: Photography In Asia, 南洋理工大学，新加坡

  • “Person, Place or Thing: New Ideas in Photography”, 新罕布什州艺术学院，彼得伯勒，美国

  • “Where Are We Going?”, 纽约视觉艺术学院，纽约，美国

  • 2019 伊斯兰堡艺术节，“来自中国的新艺术”，伊斯兰堡，巴基斯坦


2018

  • 欧洲文学之夜作品展，捷克文化中心，纽约，美国

  • 2018三影堂摄影奖作品展，三影堂摄影艺术中心，北京，中国

  • 2018三影堂摄影奖作品展，三影堂摄影艺术中心，厦门，中国

  • 2018青年艺术100，嘉德艺术中心，北京，中国

  • Photo-ADT Coming Image: 人工智能时代摄影图像的空间转换，清华大学美术学院美术馆，北京，中国

  • AMNUA国际摄影展，“刷屏/劳作”，南京艺术学院美术馆，南京，中国

  • “NOW”，Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries，纽约，美国

  • "重构的自我“，Hunter College 205画廊，纽约，美国

  • "局外人“，Yui画廊，纽约，美国

  • abC艺术书展，木木美术馆，北京，中国

  • “Apparatus of Discomfort", 3画廊，纽约，美国

 

2017

  •  "Now, An Unbecoming"当代艺术展，Skybridge画廊，纽约，美国

  • 开放的书页：新的对话，康涅狄格学院图书馆，新伦敦，康涅狄格州，美国

  • TOP20·2017中国当代摄影新锐展，浙江美术馆，杭州，中国

  • “Manifestos Unheard"行为艺术展，25East画廊，纽约，美国

  • 丽水国际摄影节，“如果艺术可以重来” 学术展，丽水，中国

  • 连州国际摄影年展，“我的自拍杆”主题展，连州，中国

  • “Governing Bodies”，Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries，纽约，美国

  • 第17届平遥国际摄影展，平遥，中国

  • “Photoville 2017”摄影展，布鲁克林大桥公园，纽约，美国

  • “Photo, Matters.”摄影展，25East画廊，纽约，美国

  • 第二届长江国际影像双年展，重庆，中国

  • “Photography”，MoMA PS1艺术书店，纽约，美国

  • “另存为”，第3影像实验室，重庆，中国

  • “Photography”，Printed Matter艺术书店，纽约，美国

  • BABZ艺术书籍博览会，布鲁克林，纽约，美国

 

2016

  • 第16届平遥国际摄影展，平遥，中国

  • “(Re)Public”，“Post-election”摄影展，3画廊，纽约，美国

 

 

  • 出版物


2022

  •  《浮屿：摄影与视觉文化研究》，创刊号，主编：何伊宁，2022年

2019


2018

  • 《摄影是艺术》，2018年12月刊，第12期，ISSN 2523-0824

  • 《周末画报》，2018年8月18日，第1026期，ISBN 6943144408018

  • 《起承 - 2018三影堂摄影奖作品展》，浙江摄影出版社，ISBN 978-7-5514-2139-3

  • 《摄影之友》，“年度新星”，2018年一月刊，ISSN 2304-7577

  • 《中国摄影》，2018年一月刊，ISSN 1004-0153


2017

  • 《中国当代摄影新锐展作品集》，浙江摄影出版社，ISBN 978-7-5514-2076-1

  • 《自然生长：百名85后中国摄影师个案剖析》，中国摄影出版社，ISBN 978-7-5179-0653-7

 

 

  • 采访与评论

 

2018

2017

 

 

  • 公共收藏

马耳他驻纽约艺术委员会

浙江美术馆


  • 演讲

2020

2018

  • "Cultural Heterotopia: Asian Identities, Languages, and Contemporary Art", 哥伦比亚大学国际与公共关系学院，纽约，美国