Ramona Jingru Wang (b. 1995, China) is a lens-based artist based on the internet and New York. Her work explores how images intervene with our reality and create connections among people and space, investigating how we care for each other through photographs. She studied in the International Center of Photography-Bard College, and graduated with an MFA in photography from the Pratt Institute, New York. She has been the recipient of the BARON Prize 2020 with her video work “wish you were not here”, short-listed for Palm* Photo Prize and the winner of the Capture Writing Prize 2021. Her works have been featured on i-D, It’sNiceThat, PhotoVOGUE, FAR-NEAR Media, etc. and exchibited in the Museum of the City of New York.
PUBLICATION/PRESS
2023
- Featured on i-D :The photographer confronting techno-Orientalism, one cyborg at a time, 1.9.2023
2022
- Summer of Something Special Vol.iii with Something Special Studios
- Shorlisted for the Palm* Photo Prize
2021
- Family Album 2019-2021 Newspaper
- Interview with FAR-NEAR Media: Family Album, 9.10.2021
- Featured on It’sNiceThat: Ramona Jingru Wang asks: “Does the appearance of Asian bodies in an image make it inherently political?” 11.25.2021
- Winner of the Capture Writing Prize
2020
- Winner of the BARON Prize
EXHIBITIONS
New York Now: Home, A Photography Triennial, Museum of the City of New York, New York, US
2022
Concept, CICA Museum, South Korea
2022
Palm* Photo Prize Exhibition, London, UK
2021
Unfkd: Fine Arts and Photography MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York, US
2019
Rose Rouge, Tokyo, Japan