WANRONG ZHU
WANRONG ZHU
Wanrong Zhu is a multimedia visual artist from China, currently based in London. Her artistic practice integrates fashion photography, VR, XR, 3D, AI, and performance to explore how intangible cultural heritage can shape future civilizations. Through multimedia and interactive formats, she traverses timelines and challenges the perceptual boundaries of virtual reality, guiding audiences into a world where technology, culture, and art are deeply intertwined.
In 2021, she was commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar Art to create the outdoor interactive art installation "Gedulah" in collaboration with Beijing United Family Hospital, focusing on healing through art. In 2023, she utilized XR technology to produce the metaverse fashion show "ERA KUANG" for Wuhan Fashion Week. In 2023, she was commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar Art to collaborate with Hong Kong billionaire businesswoman Pansy Ho on the Chinese intangible cultural heritage exhibition “Zhi Shang Sheng hua”, Her digital artwork "Screen Fence", created using thermal imaging technology, was featured in the opening exhibition of the Youth Space Museum in Chongqing in June 2023. Her work "Shadow Symphony" was selected as a Top 10 finalist for the 2024 SOLO AI '24 AWARD. Most recently, her multimedia immersive installation "Spirit Never Dies" was exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on April 30, 2024.
EXHIBITION
TongHai GaoTai 2066, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | China Cultural Week, Edinburgh, UK. August 2025
TongHai GaoTai 2066, UK China Performing Arts, London, UK June 2025
Requiem of the White Lily, Symbiotic Epidermis | Hypha Gallery, London, UK June – July 2025
TongHai GaoTai 2066, London OOTFest25 (UN)SEEN, London, UK June 2025
SPATIOTEMPORAL NIRVANA, Intangible Heritage Reimagined, Tonghai, China March 2025
FOUL CHIMERA, INFERNO | Colour Factory, London, UK December 2024
Symphony of Shadows, China-UK Technology Summit, London, UK November 2024
Spirit Never Dies, Prelude in Asylum, London, UK October 2024
Lily’s Requiem, C+Space | Fair is Foul, and …, Hong Kong, China August 2024
and…um…I…, Library Exhibition | Uncharted Paths, London, UK July 2024 – September 2024
No.86, Candid Arts Gallery | Refraction, London, UK July 2024
No.86, Royal College of Art Graduate Exhibition | Hanger Space, London, UK June 2024
Symphony of Shadows, Colecci n SOLO | SOLO AI AWARD ’24, Award Ceremony and Exhibition, London, UK June 2024
Spirit Never Dies, Fitzwilliam Museum | William Blake’s Universe | Love Art After Dark, Cambridge, UK April 2024
X, Y, Z, Echoes of Existence | Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, London, UK April 2024
A Murder, Violent Bodies | Ugly Duck Spaces, London, UK February 2024
Symphony of Shadows, Royal College of Art | OpenStudio, London, UK February 2024
Lily’s Requiem, Royal College of Art | Bridge Studio, London, UK December 2023
The Fence of the Screen, Young Space Gallery | Fast Forward. Who. Play Back, Chongqing, China June 2023
Floral Legacy, Timeless Classics, Intangible Cultural Heritage Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China December 2023
Butterfly | YOU, 798 Art Center, London, UK August 2019
Gedulah, Art Box | BAZAAR ART, Beijing, China December 2021 – March 2022