About

Wang Ruobing is an artist, educator and independent curator. Her art practices explore our position with our environment in the contexts of ecology and knowledge production.

Ruobing’s work has been exhibited in both local and international exhibitions, with recent participations that include “Singapore International Festival of the Arts” (2025), the “Children’s Biennale” at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (2024) and the National Gallery Singapore (2023); “Articulate Waste” at Absolute Art Space in Taiwan (2024); and “Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock” at the Miyauchi Art Foundation in Japan (2024).

As an independent curator, her recent curated exhibitions include Sama-Sama (2025), Alternative Ecology: the Community (2024) Site and Nature: A Collection of Remembering (2023), Artist Conference (2023), Inbetween (2021–2022), “Artist as Collector” (2021), “12 SOLO” (2020 -2021); “Arts in Your Neighbourhood” (Public Art Trust 2018 and 2019); “Happens When Nothing Happens” (The Esplanade, 2019); “Of Other Places” (The Substation, 2019); and “Beneath Tide, Running Forest” (Singapore Botanic Gardens, 2018). As an academic, her research concentrates on identity, hybridity and transcultural discourses, particularly on contemporary art in China and Southeast Asia. Her writings have appeared in publications such as ISSUES, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (JCCA), Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Nanyang Art and a range of exhibition catalogues.

She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and previously was as a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Currently, she is a Lecturer at LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore, and a co-founder of the independent art space, Comma Space.