Baby Reni (1997, The Netherlands) is the moniker of artist and designer Irene Ha. Deconstructing fashion conventions from an artistic standpoint, her work draws connections between the contemporary culture she grew up in and the traditional customs of her Vietnamese heritage.
Ha celebrates Diasporic Southeast Asian pop culture through kaleidoscopic assemblages, installations and performances — recalibrating everyday diasporic objects, trinkets and interiors while parodying fashion aesthetics and brand identities. Working in the tradition of artists who critically engage with the strategies of luxury brands and their cultural institutions, she operates at the intersection of commerce, identity, and cultural infrastructure. Alongside her art practice, Ha runs Baby Reni Foundation a fictional-but-functioning institution since 2023, operating out of her own living room, staged as a parody of Western post-war art discourse and the white cube.
Ha obtained a BA Fashion Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her work has been shown at Les Urbaines Lausanne, Das Leben Am Haverkamp, The Hague (solo), Centraal Museum Utrecht, X-Museum Beijing and more. She is the first curator-in-residency at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam and will curate a group exhibition at Vleeshal Centre of Contemporary Arts in Middelburg in January 2027.