Anna Ren

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Anna Ren



E-mail: he.ren2662@gmail.com
Instagram: @rr_annah
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Artist CV

01 Introduction

Anna Ren is a New York–based new media artist working across expanded animation, performance, installation, and interactive media. Her practice explores hybrid spaces between physical and digital environments, focusing on how technology mediates relationships between body, memory, and space. Drawing from experiences living across different cultural backgrounds, her work investigates cultural displacement and in-between states through immersive environments and real-time visual systems.
Ren holds a BFA in Interactive Media Arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has been selected as a winner at the SMTH International Contest 5th Edition, showcasing her work across 10+ screens in Spain, and as a semifinalist for the Cannes Indie Shorts Award. Her work has been exhibited and presented internationally at venues including Ars Electronica Festival, ISEA, ACM TEI, and more.
02 Selected Group Exhibitions & Presentations
2026
In-Between, Cannes Indie Shorts Award, Semifinalist.
Cannes, France
2026
In-Between (Excerpt), SMTH International Contest 5th Edition, Poetic Architecture, Winner.
Various Cities, Spain
Work displayed on CC Príncipe Pío (Madrid), CC Plenilunio (Madrid), CC Zielo Pozuelo (Madrid), CC L'Aljub (Alicante), CC Isla Azul (Madrid), CC Boulevard Vitoria (Vitoria), CC Lagoh (Seville), CC Oasiz (Madrid), CC Max Center (Bilbao), CC Nuga (Madrid), CC Palacio de Hielo (Madrid), CC Nueva Condomina (Murcia), and CC L'Illa Diagonal (Barcelona).
2026
In-Between (Excerpt), AURORA Video Art Night (VAN 2026), AT&T Discovery District. Exhibitor.
Dallas, TX
2026
Place Untitled, 31st ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art). Presenter.
Dubai, UAE
2026
Place Untitled, ACM TEI’26 (Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction) Art and Performance Track, Exhibitor & Performer.
Chicago, IL
2026
College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Artistic Presets: Technology, Labor, and Innovation, Presenter.
Chicago, IL
2025
Drifted Memories, YTH Art Life Center, Instant Storage, Exhibitor
Shanghai, China
2025
Sweet Honey: Rules of Being an Alien, A Space Gallery, Verifying Identity...Please Log In, 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
04 Publications
2026
Anna Ren. “Place Untitled.” Proceedings of the 31st ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art), 2026 [Accepted Art Paper]
2026
Anna Ren. "Place Untitled: A Real-time Performance of Memory and Presence Through Embodied Interaction." In 20th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI’ 26). Art and Performance, 2026.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3731459.3779136. [Expanded Abstract].
2025
Ma, Yuhanxiao, Anna Ren, and Yanxiang Zhu. “The Guinea Pig Eligibility Test: A Participatory Web-Based Exploration of Data and Clinical Trial Ethics.” Proceedings of the Conference on Animation and Interactive Art, September 3, 2025, 133–41. https://doi.org/10.1145/3749893.3749920.
2025
Ng, Senaida, Ricky Kapoor, Anna Ren, Vu Le, Krist Mai, and Charlin Wu. “PRINCESS OF THE HILLS.” In Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making 1, 1st ed., 1:21. Underground Art And Design, 2025. 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