Han Mengyun is an interdisciplinary and multimedia artist currently based in London, UK and China. 

Her practice unfolds across two distinct but intertwined modes she calls "Day" and "Night".

Initially trained in the Western tradition of oil painting, Han Mengyun gradually departed from Eurocentric art historical frameworks to explore the entangled cultural histories of Eurasia, premodern aesthetic cosmopolitanism and transcultural hybridization. Resonant with philosopher Yuk Hui's understanding of identity as a relational process of becoming rather than a fixed essence from a single origin, her Day practice articulates artistic subjectivity through revisiting premodern transregional connections as an active reconfiguration of historical perception in the present.

Night Practice explores personal, emotional, and psychological experiences shaped by her life as a woman and a mother. Her affinity for the night developed from an involuntary impulse to write poetry in darkness during episodes of postpartum depression. The night became a space of emancipation and a catalyst for her écriture féminine. Working across writing, moving image installation and performance, Night Practice attends to women’s utterance, gendered forms of knowledge, and questions of labour and care within transgenerational, transcultural, transhistorical, and inter-religious contexts.

Her work has been presented at St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Switzerland (2026); Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis, Paris (2026); Rhinoceros, Rome (2026); He Art Museum, China (2026); Asia Now 11th Edition, Paris (2025); Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong (2025); The Courtauld, London (2025); AlUla Arts Festival, Saudi Arabia(2025); Goethe Institute, Shanghai(2025); Wonderfruit, Thailand (2025); Zhi Art Museum, China(2025); ShanghART Singapore(2025); Delfina Foundation, London(2024); ShanghART Shanghai (2023); SONGEUN, Seoul (2024); ASE Foundation, Shanghai(2024); UCCA Edge, Shanghai(2022); Yuz Museum, Shanghai(2023); ESEA Contemporary, Manchester (2022) ; Power Station of Art, Shanghai(2021); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2012) and among others.

Her recent biennales include: Lahore Biennale 04 (2027, forthcoming); Bukhara Biennial: Recipes for Broken Hearts (2025); Busan Biennale: Seeing in the Dark, South Korea (2024); Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones, Saudi Arabia (2021).

Han Mengyun was selected as one of the Artists of the Year by ArtAsiaPacific Almanac (2026) and is the recipient of Robb Report Young Artist Award (2024). She received a BA in Studio Art from Bard College, pursued the study of Sanskrit at institutions including Kyoto University, and completed an MFA at the University of Oxford, where her research focused on Classical Indology and Indian aesthetic theories.

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For all enquiries, please contact hanmengyunstudio@gmail.com