Anna Ren

New Media 3D Art About

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Anna Ren



New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
BFA in Interactive Media Arts

01 Introduction

Anna Ren is a Brooklyn-based new media artist and creative technologist working across installation, CG imagery, interactive media, and performance. Through immersive and poetic visual languages, she crafts intricate worlds that explore the complex interplay between body, memory, and space. Her practice often weaves the digital and the physical, using creative technology as a lens to examine intimacy, displacement, and transformation.
Ren holds a BFA in Interactive Media Arts from NYU Tisch, where she developed a multidisciplinary approach that bridges virtual worldbuilding, animation, and speculative storytelling. Her works invite audiences to inhabit dreamlike environments where emotion, technology, and identity overlap, spaces that question what it means to be seen, remembered, or connected.
Her work has been featured internationally, including at Ars Electronica Festival, The High Line NYC, THE BLANC, Denver Digerati, and MANIFEST:IO Berlin.
02 Selected Group Exhibitions & Presentations
2026
Place Untitled: A Recursive Performance, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Artistic Presets: Technology, Labor, and Innovation, Presenter.
Chicago, IL
2025
Sweet Honey: Rules of Being an Alien, A Space Gallery, Verifying Identity, Exhibitor.
New York, NY
2025
_Beliefs, Accent Sisters, Pixelated Dream, Performer & Exhibitor.
New York, NY
2025
The Guinea Pig Eligibility Test, Ars Electronica Festival, Expanded Conference, Presenter.
Linz, Austria
2025
PRINCESS OF THE HILLS, MANIFEST:IO Berlin, Exhibitor.
Berlin, Germany
2024
Sweet Honey: Rules of Being an Alien, Digerati Experimental Media Festival & The Sie Film Center & Denver Film, Experimental Constructs, Official Selection.
Denver, CO
2024
Drifted Memories, CultureHub, Re-Fest, Official Selection.
New York, NY
2024
Drifted Memories, New York University, Simulacra Unveiled, Exhibitor and Moderator.
New York, NY
2024
Waiting, THE BLANC, 11:59, Exhibitor.
New York, NY
2023
I’M FINE, Performance in Virtual Space, Performer.
New York, NY
2023
The Chat, CYBER SOIRÉE, Performer.
New York, NY
2023
AAAH Art Fair, Artist Vendor.
New York, NY
2023
The Green Suit, THE BLANC, Useless Machine, Exhibitor.
New York, NY
03 Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2025
Guinea Pigs: You May Be Eligible, THE BLANC, Two-Person Show (with Maggie Ma), Exhibitor.
New York, NY
2025
Place Untitled, Black Box Theatre, Solo Performance.
New York, NY
04 Publications
2026
“Place Untitled: A Recursive Performance.” In Artistic Presets: Technology, Labor, and Innovation. College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference. [Accepted Art Paper].
2025
“The Guinea Pig Eligibility Test: A Participatory Web-based Exploration of Data and Clinical Trial Ethics.” In Expanded Conference, Ars Electronica Festival. [Accepted Art Paper].
2025
“PRINCESS OF THE HILLS.” In Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making, edited by Amy Xiaofan Jiang. Underground Art and Design (UAAD), Volume 1. ISSN 3066-165X.
05 Teaching
2023
ITP Camp, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Instructor — “Illustrator: From 2D to 3D Postcard Design”; “Bring Your Drawing in a 360 World.”
New York, NY
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