Contact
For private commissions or to request further information:
email | wanrulin@rurubombltd.co.uk
instagram | @rurubombart ︎
email | wanrulin@rurubombltd.co.uk
instagram | @rurubombart ︎
Lin, Wan Ru
林宛儒
ABOUT
Wan Ru is a lens-based artist, graphic designer and curator. She was born in Taiwan but lives and works in London. She holds an MA and MRes in Photography from Goldsmith, University of London, and has her studio based at Thames-Side Studios. Her practice explores photography as a medium of transformation, focusing on how light and time interact with memory, perception, and place.
Fascinated by the possibilities of photography and videography, Wan-Ru blends analogue darkroom techniques with digital technologies, video and installation art. Her work challenges the boundaries of the image—shifting between documentary and abstraction, process and poetry. With a focus on process and aesthetics, she explores themes including time, dreams, the environment, and the materiality of photographic technologies, always questioning the image’s possibilities.
Her work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, including at the Royal Scottish Academy (2021) and Royal Hibernian Academy (2022, 2025), Athens Digital Art Festival (2017,2021), and is held in public and private collections in different countries.
STUDIO & COMMUNITY
2022 Oct- now Thames-Side Studios
2022 Aug- now The Gate Darkroom
Wan Ru is a lens-based artist, graphic designer and curator. She was born in Taiwan but lives and works in London. She holds an MA and MRes in Photography from Goldsmith, University of London, and has her studio based at Thames-Side Studios. Her practice explores photography as a medium of transformation, focusing on how light and time interact with memory, perception, and place.
Fascinated by the possibilities of photography and videography, Wan-Ru blends analogue darkroom techniques with digital technologies, video and installation art. Her work challenges the boundaries of the image—shifting between documentary and abstraction, process and poetry. With a focus on process and aesthetics, she explores themes including time, dreams, the environment, and the materiality of photographic technologies, always questioning the image’s possibilities.
Her work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, including at the Royal Scottish Academy (2021) and Royal Hibernian Academy (2022, 2025), Athens Digital Art Festival (2017,2021), and is held in public and private collections in different countries.
STUDIO & COMMUNITY
2022 Oct- now Thames-Side Studios
2022 Aug- now The Gate Darkroom
Exhibitions
CURRENT and UPCOMING
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024~2025 Light and Time at Riverbank, Thames Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK︎
2017 Un- Consciousness Perceiver, St James Hatcham Church, London, UK
2012 憶。聲 Episodic Sound Story (Extend by Gallery for one more week), Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, */ ADAF 2021, Athens, Greece
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art, Rome, Italy
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Willesden Gallery, London, UK
2021 195th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Willesden Gallery, Wembley, UK ︎
2017 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, */ ADAF 2017, Video Art, Post Utopia Collection, Athens, Greece
2017 The Spring Salon, Candid Art Trust, London
2017 The Spring Collection, curated by Focus LDN, Menier Gallery, London, UK ︎
2016 XV Degree Show, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2012 The Ten Degree Show, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, TW
2011 DuPont™ Home 2050: Tyvek®+Corian®+Kevlar®; Ms Helene Löfman; DuPont™, Design Residency with Group Exhibition Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2011 From Analogue to Digital and Back Again, Mr Scott Hessels + Mr Jen-Hui Liao; Design Residency with Group Exhibition: Lost & Found™, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Tangible Interfaces, Ms Alessia Giardino X Professor Pey-Chwen Lin, Art Residency with Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Ty…What ?, Design Residency with Group Exhibition, Tyvek®; DuPont ™ Tyvek®, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 AiQ Smart Cloth, Design Residency with Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan,
CURATE
GUEST ARTIST
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England, London
PUBLISHED WORK
2025 Book | Bare/ Bear, The Gate Darkroom
INTERVIEW
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England︎
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art ︎
2017 Wan-Ru Lin: Finding Light in the Dark, Focus LDN by Tom Cox
TEACHING
2020 - now Online Teacher, SkillShare, New York
Staff Pick : Illuminating Films: How to Create Compelling Abstract Art at Home ︎Staff Pick : Futuristic Imaging: Photoshopping Your Pictures into Abstract Art︎
EDUCATION
2016 – 2017 MRes in Filmmaking , Photography & Electronic Arts
Goldsmiths , University of London, London, UK
2015 – 2016 MA in Photography : The Image & Electronic Art,
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2008 – 2012 BA in Media and Visual Communication Design,
Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
︎ 6th -10th Oct PHOTOFUSION X Gate Darkroom, London, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024~2025 Light and Time at Riverbank, Thames Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK︎
2017 Un- Consciousness Perceiver, St James Hatcham Church, London, UK
2012 憶。聲 Episodic Sound Story (Extend by Gallery for one more week), Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-2026 Annually; Woolwich Open x Studio Holder’s Exhibition, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK
2026 River Project- Work in Progress, The Gate Darkroom X Thames-Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK
2025 At The Guard Room. House of Denna, London, UK︎
2026 River Project- Work in Progress, The Gate Darkroom X Thames-Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK
2025 At The Guard Room. House of Denna, London, UK︎
2025 195nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2025 Friends Together, House of Denna, London, UK 2024 2nd edition of the ECO Feminism Festival, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London, UK
2024 “Bear/ Bare”, Group Exhibition, The Gate Darkroom X Thames-Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK
2023 NEW WAVE, Group Exhibition, part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays, Spitalfields Studios, London, UK 2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2024 “Bear/ Bare”, Group Exhibition, The Gate Darkroom X Thames-Side Studios: Lounge, London, UK
2023 NEW WAVE, Group Exhibition, part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays, Spitalfields Studios, London, UK 2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art, Rome, Italy
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Willesden Gallery, London, UK
2021 195th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding balance through art, Virtual Gallery Group Exhibition, Willesden Gallery, Wembley, UK ︎
2017 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, */ ADAF 2017, Video Art, Post Utopia Collection, Athens, Greece
2017 The Spring Salon, Candid Art Trust, London
2017 The Spring Collection, curated by Focus LDN, Menier Gallery, London, UK ︎
2016 XV Degree Show, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2012 The Ten Degree Show, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, TW
2011 DuPont™ Home 2050: Tyvek®+Corian®+Kevlar®; Ms Helene Löfman; DuPont™, Design Residency with Group Exhibition Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2011 From Analogue to Digital and Back Again, Mr Scott Hessels + Mr Jen-Hui Liao; Design Residency with Group Exhibition: Lost & Found™, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Tangible Interfaces, Ms Alessia Giardino X Professor Pey-Chwen Lin, Art Residency with Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 Ty…What ?, Design Residency with Group Exhibition, Tyvek®; DuPont ™ Tyvek®, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2010 AiQ Smart Cloth, Design Residency with Group Exhibition, Chang Gung University Gallery, Taoyuan, Taiwan,
CURATE
2025 Friends Together, House of Denna, London, UK (Co-Curater: Frank Creber)
GUEST ARTIST
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England, London
PUBLISHED WORK
2025 Book | Bare/ Bear, The Gate Darkroom
INTERVIEW
2023 eye4change X Arts Council England︎
2021 Environmental Alterations, Loosen Art ︎
2017 Wan-Ru Lin: Finding Light in the Dark, Focus LDN by Tom Cox
TEACHING
2020 - now Online Teacher, SkillShare, New York
Staff Pick : Illuminating Films: How to Create Compelling Abstract Art at Home ︎Staff Pick : Futuristic Imaging: Photoshopping Your Pictures into Abstract Art︎
EDUCATION
2016 – 2017 MRes in Filmmaking , Photography & Electronic Arts
Goldsmiths , University of London, London, UK
2015 – 2016 MA in Photography : The Image & Electronic Art,
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2008 – 2012 BA in Media and Visual Communication Design,
Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan