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 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs, short-listed for Palm* Photo Prize and the winner of the Capture Writing Prize 2021. Her works have been featured on Aperture, DOCUMENT Journal, i-D, It’sNiceThat, PhotoVOGUE, FAR-NEAR Media, etc. and exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York. Her clients include New York Times, Vice, The Cut, Maison Kitsuné, Puma, etc.
She can be reached via email: work@ramonajingruwang.com
instagram: @ramonadai
PUBLICATION/PRESS
- Dazed In pictures: Visions of girlhood by 7 women artists
- Dazed: This beauty story captures the carefree feeling of summer in NYC, 5.28.2024
- PHOTO VOGUE Two PhotoVogue artists meet the CondéFuture students 5. 2. 2024
- PhMuseum Beyond Stereotypes: Ramona Jingru Wang's Photographic Ode to Hybridity and Individuality 4.4.2024
- PHOTO VOGUE Let's celebrate the holidays with the pictures of 10 PhotoVoguers, 12.25.2023
- Winner of the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs
- Feature on i-D: The photographer confronting techno-Orientalism, one cyborg at a time, 9.1.2023
- Featured on DOCUMENT Journal: “My friends are cyborgs, but that’s okay’ portraits a posthuman paradise” 9.27.2023
2022
- Summer of Something Special Vol.iii with Something Special Studios
- Shorlisted for the Palm* Photo Prize
- 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 read full Writing Sample
2020
- Winner of the BARON Prize
EXHIBITIONS
- GIRLHOOD LORE Group Show of Mulieris Magazine, curated by Laura Rositani, Milan & Todi, Italy
- New York Now: Home, A Photography Triennial, Museum of the City of New York, New York, US
- HEATWAVE EXHIBITION, BOBBLEHAUSE, New York, US
- Rose Rouge, Tokyo, Japan