b. 1976, Guangzhou, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou, China and New York, USA

Shen Ruijun takes painting as a starting point and draws inspiration from nature, emphasizing experience and process. Her practice covers a variety of media, including installation, animation, and new media. Through perceptions of multi-dimensional space and multiple angles, her works explore the state of instantly shifting and intertwining contradictions such as, the virtual and the real, spirit and matter, the quotidian and the demystified, the individual and the collective, the norm and the exception, etc. In recent years, she practices a way of life that endows the spiritual pursuit in the everyday through self-reserved land projects and maintains independently while resonating with the surroundings.

Shen Ruijun is an artist and curator. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, received her MFA from Montcalm State University in 2004, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Award in the same year. She received her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, and received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Her works were included in the 8th Shenzhen Ink Biennale (2013), the 2013 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2019). They have been collected by MAXXI, Italy, KADIST, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, the White Rabbit Collection, Australia, and the Teirochi Deleon Collection.

Swan Lake (2016) presents a state of multi-dimension, change, and unity of opposites. 

The one-way mirror glass forms a mirror effect with one-side penetration. The viewers can see through the glass to see the image inside the artwork but cannot see through the artwork to the other side. Based on the image inside the glass, the artist responds to different narratives on the inner and outer sides of the glass. Therefore, the artwork presents different pictures from different angles. 

Female bodies in similar gestures are placed in different contexts to create different interpretations; they are either sexy or depraved, sacred or evil, natural or commercial. White swan or black swan, as it refers to, may be different aspects of the same person.

From a multi-dimensional perspective, the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional can be transformed into each other; things that are objectively separated can be reunited by subjectively moving the point of view. Everything changes with time and place. Everything repeats in circles.

b. 1976, Guangzhou, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou, China and New York, USA

Shen Ruijun takes painting as a starting point and draws inspiration from nature, emphasizing experience and process. Her practice covers a variety of media, including installation, animation, and new media. Through perceptions of multi-dimensional space and multiple angles, her works explore the state of instantly shifting and intertwining contradictions such as, the virtual and the real, spirit and matter, the quotidian and the demystified, the individual and the collective, the norm and the exception, etc. In recent years, she practices a way of life that endows the spiritual pursuit in the everyday through self-reserved land projects and maintains independently while resonating with the surroundings.

Shen Ruijun is an artist and curator. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, received her MFA from Montcalm State University in 2004, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Award in the same year. She received her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, and received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Her works were included in the 8th Shenzhen Ink Biennale (2013), the 2013 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2019). They have been collected by MAXXI, Italy, KADIST, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, the White Rabbit Collection, Australia, and the Teirochi Deleon Collection.

Swan Lake (2016) presents a state of multi-dimension, change, and unity of opposites. 

The one-way mirror glass forms a mirror effect with one-side penetration. The viewers can see through the glass to see the image inside the artwork but cannot see through the artwork to the other side. Based on the image inside the glass, the artist responds to different narratives on the inner and outer sides of the glass. Therefore, the artwork presents different pictures from different angles. 

Female bodies in similar gestures are placed in different contexts to create different interpretations; they are either sexy or depraved, sacred or evil, natural or commercial. White swan or black swan, as it refers to, may be different aspects of the same person.

From a multi-dimensional perspective, the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional can be transformed into each other; things that are objectively separated can be reunited by subjectively moving the point of view. Everything changes with time and place. Everything repeats in circles.

b. 1976, Guangzhou, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou, China and New York, USA

Shen Ruijun takes painting as a starting point and draws inspiration from nature, emphasizing experience and process. Her practice covers a variety of media, including installation, animation, and new media. Through perceptions of multi-dimensional space and multiple angles, her works explore the state of instantly shifting and intertwining contradictions such as, the virtual and the real, spirit and matter, the quotidian and the demystified, the individual and the collective, the norm and the exception, etc. In recent years, she practices a way of life that endows the spiritual pursuit in the everyday through self-reserved land projects and maintains independently while resonating with the surroundings.

Shen Ruijun is an artist and curator. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, received her MFA from Montcalm State University in 2004, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Award in the same year. She received her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, and received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Her works were included in the 8th Shenzhen Ink Biennale (2013), the 2013 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2019). They have been collected by MAXXI, Italy, KADIST, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, the White Rabbit Collection, Australia, and the Teirochi Deleon Collection.

Swan Lake (2016) presents a state of multi-dimension, change, and unity of opposites. 

The one-way mirror glass forms a mirror effect with one-side penetration. The viewers can see through the glass to see the image inside the artwork but cannot see through the artwork to the other side. Based on the image inside the glass, the artist responds to different narratives on the inner and outer sides of the glass. Therefore, the artwork presents different pictures from different angles. 

Female bodies in similar gestures are placed in different contexts to create different interpretations; they are either sexy or depraved, sacred or evil, natural or commercial. White swan or black swan, as it refers to, may be different aspects of the same person.

From a multi-dimensional perspective, the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional can be transformed into each other; things that are objectively separated can be reunited by subjectively moving the point of view. Everything changes with time and place. Everything repeats in circles.

b. 1976, Guangzhou, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou, China and New York, USA

Shen Ruijun takes painting as a starting point and draws inspiration from nature, emphasizing experience and process. Her practice covers a variety of media, including installation, animation, and new media. Through perceptions of multi-dimensional space and multiple angles, her works explore the state of instantly shifting and intertwining contradictions such as, the virtual and the real, spirit and matter, the quotidian and the demystified, the individual and the collective, the norm and the exception, etc. In recent years, she practices a way of life that endows the spiritual pursuit in the everyday through self-reserved land projects and maintains independently while resonating with the surroundings.

Shen Ruijun is an artist and curator. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, received her MFA from Montcalm State University in 2004, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Award in the same year. She received her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, and received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Her works were included in the 8th Shenzhen Ink Biennale (2013), the 2013 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2019). They have been collected by MAXXI, Italy, KADIST, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, the White Rabbit Collection, Australia, and the Teirochi Deleon Collection.

Swan Lake (2016) presents a state of multi-dimension, change, and unity of opposites. 

The one-way mirror glass forms a mirror effect with one-side penetration. The viewers can see through the glass to see the image inside the artwork but cannot see through the artwork to the other side. Based on the image inside the glass, the artist responds to different narratives on the inner and outer sides of the glass. Therefore, the artwork presents different pictures from different angles. 

Female bodies in similar gestures are placed in different contexts to create different interpretations; they are either sexy or depraved, sacred or evil, natural or commercial. White swan or black swan, as it refers to, may be different aspects of the same person.

From a multi-dimensional perspective, the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional can be transformed into each other; things that are objectively separated can be reunited by subjectively moving the point of view. Everything changes with time and place. Everything repeats in circles.

b. 1976, Guangzhou, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou, China and New York, USA

Shen Ruijun takes painting as a starting point and draws inspiration from nature, emphasizing experience and process. Her practice covers a variety of media, including installation, animation, and new media. Through perceptions of multi-dimensional space and multiple angles, her works explore the state of instantly shifting and intertwining contradictions such as, the virtual and the real, spirit and matter, the quotidian and the demystified, the individual and the collective, the norm and the exception, etc. In recent years, she practices a way of life that endows the spiritual pursuit in the everyday through self-reserved land projects and maintains independently while resonating with the surroundings.

Shen Ruijun is an artist and curator. She graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, received her MFA from Montcalm State University in 2004, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Award in the same year. She received her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, and received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Her works were included in the 8th Shenzhen Ink Biennale (2013), the 2013 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, and the 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2019). They have been collected by MAXXI, Italy, KADIST, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, the White Rabbit Collection, Australia, and the Teirochi Deleon Collection.

Swan Lake (2016) presents a state of multi-dimension, change, and unity of opposites. 

The one-way mirror glass forms a mirror effect with one-side penetration. The viewers can see through the glass to see the image inside the artwork but cannot see through the artwork to the other side. Based on the image inside the glass, the artist responds to different narratives on the inner and outer sides of the glass. Therefore, the artwork presents different pictures from different angles. 

Female bodies in similar gestures are placed in different contexts to create different interpretations; they are either sexy or depraved, sacred or evil, natural or commercial. White swan or black swan, as it refers to, may be different aspects of the same person.

From a multi-dimensional perspective, the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional can be transformed into each other; things that are objectively separated can be reunited by subjectively moving the point of view. Everything changes with time and place. Everything repeats in circles.