Bi Rongrong (b. 1982, Ningbo, China) centers her practice on extracting and reconfiguring patterns from architecture, landscapes, textiles, artefacts, and everyday objects across diverse cultural contexts. Working across manual, digital, and machine-based processes, she transforms fragmented visual data into paintings, collages, textile-based, metallic and mixed-media sculptures and installations. Through layered compositions, Bi blurs the boundaries between geographies, temporalities, and the natural and built worlds. At the core of her practice is a view of the world as an interconnected whole, in which underlying structures and relationships bind all things together. This perspective informs her use of weaving and lace as both conceptual frameworks and formal strategies. Formally trained in Chinese landscape painting, Bi draws on a tradition that emphasizes shifting perspectives over a single viewpoint, extending these principles beyond the pictorial plane into three-dimensional forms. Her work foregrounds the memories, histories, and narratives embedded within the fabric of everyday life.
Bi was previously shortlisted for the Sigg Prize (2025), and was one of the three winners of the Spirit of Ecstasy Challenge in Muse, the Rolls-Royce Arts Programme (2022). Her works have been exhibited in various art institutions, including Chengdu Biennale (Chengdu, 2026), Long Museum (Shanghai, 2026), M+ (Hong Kong, 2025), China Design Museum (Hangzhou, 2025), Macao International Art Biennale (Macau, 2025), “TaDA: Together-Five Years of Textile and Design Alliance” (Arbon, 2025), Jiushi Art Museum (Shanghai, 2025), Fourth Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art (Hangzhou, 2022), CHAT (Hong Kong, 2020), Surplus Space (Wuhan, 2020), Shanghai Museum of Glass (Shanghai, 2020), and Pearl Art Museum (Shanghai, 2020), among others.
Bi Rongrong currently lives and works in Shanghai, China.
