CV
HAN MENGYUN
b.1989 Wuhan, raised in Shenzhen, China
Currently based in London
EDUCATION
2018 M.F.A. (Distinction), University of Oxford, UK
2016 Research Student, Sanskrit and Classical Indian Aesthetics, Kyoto University, Japan
2012 B.A, Studio Art, Bard College, US
2019 Short Courses, Prince School of Traditional Arts, London, UK
Persian Painting, Mandala Painting, Byzantine Icon Painting, Ornamental Wood Carving,
Woodworking: Build a Qur'an Stand, Ebru Technique, Weave a Persian Kilim Carpet,
Natural Dyes & Patterns: Indian Block Printed Textile
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2024 What Migrates Shall Remain, Zhi Museum, China
2024 Night Sutra, Busan Biennale: Seeing in the Dark, Busan, South Korea
2023 The Unending Rose, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
2023 The Shape of Silence, Painting Unsettled, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
2023 Serenade, ShanghART Gallery, Art Basel, HK
2022 Night, IS A GALLERY, Shanghai
2022 The Glass Bead Game, ShanghART Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2021 The Pavilion of Three Mirrors, Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021 Logic of the Ether, Capsule Shanghai, West Bund Art & Design Fair, Shanghai, China
2021 Confession, The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2019 Garden of Rasa, The Ertegun House, Oxford, UK
2019 Splinters of Jade, A Thousand Plateaus Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2013 In Between Islands, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Lining Revealed – A Journey Through Folk Wisdom and Contemporary Vision, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong (forthcoming)
2024 Open Studio: Unknownness is the Way, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2024 The Threshold under Turbine Vents, Sunblanket Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
2024 The Inner Side of the Wind, Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing, China
2023 SIGG: Chinese Contemporary art from the Sigg Collection, SONGEUN, Seoul, South Korea
2023 Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
2023 Painting Unsettled, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
2022 AORA VI: Light, AORA Space, London, UK
2022 A Place for Concealment, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2021 The Dwelling Place of the Other in Me, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2021 Spring Discovery: Works on Paper, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2019 Activating Our Archives, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2018 Crowdsourcing and Representing the Self, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK
2018 Phala, Ruskin MFA Show, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2017 World By World, NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2017 Spring Discovery, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
2016 On Paper, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2014 Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2013 Ink of Two Cities, Sha Tin Town Hall, Hong Kong
2013 Painting as Voices, Jinling Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2012 The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, China
2012 Samsara, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
2012 Mausoleum of Dust, Bard College Thesis Show, NY, US
SELECTED PRESS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vivek Gupta, "Han Mengyun and Enduring Imprints." Limited Views, 2024
Jerome, "Han Mengyun: A Love that Permits Fraying." ARTnews China, 2024
Sofia Baldi Pighi, "I Promise You the Sea Will Unite Us Again: An Inaccurate Review of the XI Busan Biennale."Nero Editions, 2024
Sofia Baldi Pighi, "I Promise You the Sea Will Unite Us Again: An Inaccurate Review of the XI Busan Biennale" [Italian], Exibart.onpaper. n.125, 2024
Mark Rappolt, "Busan Biennale 2024 Review: Artistic Privilege Is Swept Aside." ArtReview, 2024
Louisa Buck, “From ‘Bleeding’ Sculptures to Pirate Utopias: How Women, Queer, and Non-Binary Artists Are Reshaping the Korean Art Scene.” The Art Newspaper, 2024.
Jaeyong Park, “Busan Biennale 2024: Intentional Incompleteness or Incorrect Completion.” Art in Culture, November 2024
Insun Woo, “Darkness Reimagined: Busan Biennale.” Canvas Online, 2024.
Elisa Mussack, “Busan Biennale in Südkorea: Von Piraten Lernen.” Monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben, 2024.
Lisa Movius, “Busan Biennale Offers Us Navigation Through Auntie Power.” The Art Newspaper, 2024.
Lu Chuan. “Diaspora, Exile and Reborn: New Narratives of the London-Based Chinese Artists Community.” The Art Journal, Issue 113, Mar. 2024.
Jackie Lou, “Complex Landscape: Thoughts on Practice from a New Generation of Female Artists in China.” Artnews China, 2024.
Lin Ye, “The Endless Fiction.” OUI ART, 2024.
Lai Fei, “Interview with Han Mengyun: Translation Is Ultimately the Politics of Love.” ArtReview China, 2023.
Misong Kim “Han Mengyun: A Mind, Is a Mirror, Is a Rose.” Ocula, 2023.
“In the Name of Her.” The Art Newspaper China, Issue 107, 2023.
Li Siyi, “Unsettled Painting and the Image Beyond Painting.” ART-BA-BA, 2023.
Li Suchao, “Han Mengyun: The Shape of Silence.” BUOYANT ART, 2023.
Luan Shixuan, “Curatorial Essay ‘Painting Unsettled’.” UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2023.
Shen Boliang, “Archiving the Art of An Era.” The Art Newspaper China, 100th Issue Special Edition, 2022.
Li Suchao, “Han Mengyun: Night.” Limited Views, 2022.
Shen Yiren, “Focus on the Makers of Art History in the Future.” Artnet, 2022.
Pamela Wong, “Everyday Poetry: Han Mengyun.” ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 128, 2022.
Cai Zhenyu, “Mirror as Mind.” The Thinker, Issue. 73, 2022.
Paul Laster, “Crossing the River by ‘Feeling the Stones’.” ArtAsiaPacific, 2022.
Rahel Aima, “Stepping Stones: The Saudi Scene Takes the World Stage.” Artforum, 2022.
Sam Gaskin, “Han Mengyun’s The Pavilion of Three Mirrors.” Ocula, 2021.
Wang Luning, “What’s Behind the Cultural Spectacle of Saudi Arabia: Some Thoughts on ‘Cultural Influence’.” Financial Times, 2021.
Sthaneshwar Timalsina, “Splinters of Jade: A Postscript.” 2019.
Rubén Pose, “Manchas Taoístas (Taoist Traces).” Dangdai, vol. 14, 2015.
Rubén Pose, “The Influence of Daoist Aesthetic Traditions in Argentina.” Sino-USA Arts Journal, 2014.
Fu Chong, “The Ineffable.” World Art Magazine, 2013.
Jonathan Goodman, “Beijing: Mengyun Han at the Today Art Museum.” Art Critical, 2013.
Jonathan Goodman,“Elegía al vacío: Mengyun Han (Elegies for Emptiness).” Frontera D, 2013.
Fu Chong, ”Whence Things Have Their Origin: The Meaning of Abstract Painting and In Between Islands.” In Between Islands, Today Art Museum, 2013.
SELECTED WRITING AND PUBLICATIONS
“Han Mengyun: Night.” Afterall Journal, Issue 57, The University of Chicago Press, 2024
“Han Mengyun on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.” ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 134, 2023
“When the Silent Soul Speaks.”Chose Commune, 2023
“The Pavilion of Three Mirrors: Postscript.” Limited Views, 2022
Han Mengyun’s Bilingual Poem Collection: Night. IS A Gallery, 2022
“Suzan Frecon: Between Sun and Stone.”Limited Views, 2022
“Yu Ji & Han Mengyun”, New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, Phaidon, 2021
“Karlo Kacharava’s World of the World.” LUNCHEON Magazine, 2021
“Conversation with Shun Kadohashi.” Unearth001, Chose Commune, 2021
“Between Liminal Spaces: Interview with Edmund de Waal.” The Thinker, 2021
“Sanya Kantarovsky’s Truth-Bearing Fantasy.” Hyperallergic, 2021
“Painting as the Frame of Perception.” Leap, 2021
“Echoes of Buddhist ‘Emptiness’ in Contemporary Chinese Art.” Hyperallergic, 2021
“Photography as Mindfulness of Death: Deanna Dikeman’s Leaving and Waving.”American Suburb X, 2021
“Painting the Eternity of Time: Tu Hongtao’s Twisting and Turning.”, Hyperallergic, 2020
TALK & PRESENTATION
2025 Screening of artist film Night Sutra and Han Mengyun in conversation with Professor Ashley Thompson, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2024 Artist Talk “Beyond the East-West Paradigm”, Work.Master programme(MFA), HEAD-Genève, Switzerland
2024 Panel: Transmediating Traditions in China and Beyond, Chinese Centre, University of Oxford
2023 Artist Talk “Beyond the East-West Paradigm”, Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Design and Media, Birmingham City University
2023 Artist Talk “Wrongness as Method”, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
2022 Artist Talk “Craft as Transcultural Practice”, ESEA Contemporary, Manchester, UK
2022 Workshop “Committing an Ornamental Crime”, ESEA Contemporary, Manchester, UK
2022 Artist Talk, Open Practice Committee, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, US
2022 Han Mengyun in Conversation with Dorota Gawęda+Eglė Kulbokaitė, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2021 Spirituality in Art Practice: Han Mengyun in conversation with Lulwah Al Homoud, Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021 Silent Thunder: The Intersection between Buddhism and Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing
2020 Artist Talk “Confession”, Muge Gallery, Chengdu, China
2019 Artist Talk “Activating Our Archives”, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
RESIDENCY & GRANTS & AWARDS
2025 Commision grant, Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong
2024 Artist Residency, Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
2024 Production support, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
2024 Artist Residency, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2024 K11 Art Foundation Artist Prize, Shortlist, Hong Kong
2023 Influential 2023: Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists
2022 Artist Residency at ESEA Contemporary (formerly CFCCA), Manchester, UK
2021 Diriyah Foundation Commission, Saudi Arabia
2018 The Emery Award, Shortlist, Oxford, UK
2017 Oxford University Levett Scholarship, Oxford, UK
2012 Mason Gross School of the Arts Teaching Assistant Fellowship, NJ, US
TEACHING & VISITING
2024 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2024 Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London, London, UK
2024 Work.Master programme(MFA), HEAD-Genève, Switzerland
2023 Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Design and Media, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
2022 School of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2012 Mason Gross School of the Art, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
COLLECTIONS
Uli Sigg Collection (Switzerland)
Sammlung Wemhöner (Germany)
DC Collection (Thailand)
Zhi Museum (China)