BING LU（鲁冰）
Bing Lu (b. 1999, Beijing, China) is a Chinese photographer based in New York City. Working primarily with a medium-format camera, her practice explores the psychological state of in-betweenness through collaborative portraiture and alternative landscape. Lu holds an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts (New York) and a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston). Her work has been exhibited at PH21 Gallery (Budapest), Raynham Hall Museum (Oyster Bay, NY), the Chateau Gallery, the School of Visual Arts (NYC), and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver), among others. Recent publications include a zine book project by Float Photo Magazine in collaboration with the Humble Arts Foundation. She is a recipient of the New England Portfolio Review Scholarship, the Emerging Artists Award from the Photographic Resource Center (Boston), and Studio Foundation Honors from MassArt. Her work has also appeared in collaboration with Revue EPIC, and has been featured in FIGGI Magazine and reviewed by What Will You Remember. Lu is currently working on a book project of her latest series, tough.
Lu’s photography explores the emotional residue of both domestic environments and the wilderness she once encountered, delving into the complexities of human emotion—a desire for connection and an idealized sense of perfection—as she navigates the subtle disjunction between representation and perception. Drawing from natural forms and formal elements in landscape images, she applies a series of interventions—cropping, burning, recomposing, and juxtaposing—that transform realistic scenes into illusive imagination. The resulting photographs shift between the organic and the constructed, flatness and depth, the familiar and the estranged, while retaining ghostly traces of the original.
The experiments reflect Lu’s ongoing inquiry into imaginative revision and how abstraction can be manifested in reality. Through a careful focus on color, line, shape, and composition, her work occupies a space between documentary and fiction, reality and illusion—stretching out the creative boundaries of the medium while contemplating the tension between representation and photography’s inherent ambiguity in an age of constant visual exchange.