HAN MENGYUN
Born in 1989 in Wuhan and raised in Shenzhen, China
currently based in London and China
EDUCATION
2018 MFA, University of Oxford, UK
2016 Research Programme, Sanskrit and Classical Indian Aesthetics, Kyoto University, Japan
2012 BA, Studio Art, Bard College, US
BIENNIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL COMMISSIONS
2027 The Third Gaze (working title), Lahore Biennale 04, Lahore Pakistan (forthcoming)
2025 Dhikr, commissioned for Bukhara Biennial: Recipes for Broken Hearts, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
2025 Gift, commissioned by Arts AlUla, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2025 The Unbearable Purity: Three Stories, commissioned by Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong
2024 Night Sutra, commissioned for Busan Biennale: Seeing in the Dark, Busan, South Korea
2021 The Pavilion of Three Mirrors, commissioned for Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Jewels of Impermanence, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2024 What Migrates Shall Remain, Zhi Art Museum, China
2023 The Unending Rose, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022 Night, ESEA Contemporary, Manchester, UK
2022 Night, IS A GALLERY, Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCE
2027 Lahore Biennale 04, Lahore, Pakistan
2026 Le Désir du Cœur, Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, Paris, France
2026 XI NIU: In Search of New Routes, Rhinoceros, Rome, Italy
2026 Frieze Seoul, Almine Rech, Seoul South Korea
2026 St. Mortiz Art Film Festival, Fifth Edition: If Music, Switzerland
2026 Aesthetica Short Film Fesitval, York, UK
2026 Threads of Kinship, KADIST X He Art Museum, China
2026 Bruises, ShanghART Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2025 Bukhara Biennial: Recipes for Broken Hearts, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
2025 Unconditional Space, Wonderfruit, Thailand
2025 Slow Revolution, Goethe Institut, Shanghai
2025 “Grow” Asia Now 11th Edition, Paris, France
2025 Jewels of Impermanence, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2025 Future of Nostalgia, Art Week Tokyo, Japan
2025 Lining Revealed–A Journey Through Folk Wisdom and Contemporary Vision, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong
2025 A Women’s Sutra, The Courtauld, London, UK
2025 Tracing Impermanence, AlUla Arts Festival, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2025 The Birth of Poetry, The Shop House, Hong Kong
2024 Busan Biennale: Seeing in the Dark, Busan, South Korea, South Korea
2024 Unknownness is the Way, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2024 Poetry by the Barbarian, ASE Foundation, Shanghai
2024 The Threshold under Turbine Vents, Sunblanket Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
2024 10 Years: ShanghART at West Bund 2015-2024, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
2024 The Inner Side of the Wind, Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing, China
2023 Serenade, ShanghART, Art Basel, Hong Kong
2023 Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Forbes China Contemporary Young Artists, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
2022 Painting Unsettled, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
2022 SIGG: Chinese Contemporary art from the Sigg Collection, SONGEUN, Seoul, South Korea
2022 The Glass Bead Game, ShanghART Gallery, Art Basel, Basel
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 Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
SELECTED PRESS: REVIEWS, ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS
2026 Theater on Canvas: 40 Figures in Contemporary Chinese Painting, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House
2026 Wallpaper Magazine China Edition, Special Issue, Artist Field Notes
2026 ArtAsiaPacific Almanac, Artists of the Year: Han Mengyun, One to Watch, by Michele Chan
2025 Delfina Foundation: Platform, Conversation: A Lover of Tradition, by May Adadol Ingawanij
2025 Canvas, Weaving a New Future, Issue 118, Summer 2025, by Katherine Volk
2025 The Art Journal, Seeing the Self through “What Migrates Shall Remain”, by Yiru Wang
2025 ARTnews China, Han Mengyun: A Love that Permits Fraying, by Jerome
2025 ArtReview China, The Possibility of an Oxymoron: Moving Between Folk Wisdom and Contemporary Vision, by BTR
2025 The Art Journal, Between Contemporary Art and Folk Craft: “Lining Revealed” Weaves Humanistic Narratives, by Xiting Huang
2024 Afterall Journal, Issue 57, The University of Chicago Press, Night, by Han Mengyun
2024 ArtReview, Busan Biennale 2024 Review: Artistic Privilege Is Swept Aside, by Mark Rappolt
2024 The Art Newspaper, From ‘Bleeding’ Sculptures to Pirate Utopias: How Women, Queer, and Non-Binary Artists Are Reshaping the Korean Art Scene, by Louisa Buck
2024 Art in Culture, Busan Biennale 2024: Intentional Incompleteness or Incorrect Completion, by Jaeyong Park
2024 Canvas, Darkness Reimagined: Busan Biennale, by Insun Woo
2024 Monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Busan Biennale in Südkorea: Von Piraten Lernen, by Elisa Mussack
2024 ARTnews China, Complex Landscape: Thoughts on Practice from a New Generation of Female Artists in China, by Jackie Lou
2024 Limited Views, Han Mengyun and Enduring Imprints, by Vivek Gupta
2023 ArtReview China, Interview with Han Mengyun: Translation Is Ultimately the Politics of Love, by Lai Fei
2023 Ocula, Han Mengyun: A Mind, Is a Mirror, Is a Rose, by Misong Kim
2023 ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 134, One on One: Han Mengyun on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
2022 ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 128, Everyday Poetry: Han Mengyun, by Pamela Wong
2022 The Thinker, Issue. 73, Mirror as Mind, by Cai Zhenyu
2022 ArtAsiaPacific, Crossing the River by ‘Feeling the Stones’, by Paul Laster
2022 Artforum, Stepping Stones: The Saudi Scene Takes the World Stage, by Rahel Aima
2022 Ocula, Han Mengyun’s The Pavilion of Three Mirrors, by Sam Gaskin
2013 World art Magazine, The Ineffable, by Fu Chong
2013 Beijing: Mengyun Han at the Today Art Museum.” Art Critical, by Jonathan Goodman
2013 Exhibition catalogue essay: Whence Things Have Their Origin: The Meaning of Abstract Painting and In Between Islands, by Fu Chong
HONORS AND AWARDS
2026 Artists of the Year, ArtAsiaPacific Almanac
2024 Robb Report “BOB Best of the Best” 2024 Young Artist Award
2024 K11 Art Foundation Artist Prize, Shortlist
RESIDENCIES
2025 AlUla Visual Art Residency, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2024 Artist Residency, Delfina Foundation, London
2022 Artist Residency, Esea Contemporary(formerly CFCCA), Manchester
COLLECTIONS
Kadist Foundation, USA/France
Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland
Wemhöner Collection, Germany
DC Collection, Thailand
BAO Foundation, China
Zhi Art Museum, China
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
2026 Suturing Worlds: Workshop with Adeena Mey and Han Mengyun, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Wien
2026 Motherlines/Faultlines: Reassembling Feminist Genealogies, Chelsea College of Arts, London
2025 When East meets East: The Rise of Inter-Asian Dialogues in Contemporary Art, Asia NOW, Paris
2025 Tradition in Transition: Folk Craft and Contemporary Art, Exchange, Art Basel HK
2025 Artist Talk “Mirror Pavilion” & “Night Sutra”, Initial Research, New York
2025 A Women’s Sutra: Han Mengyun in Conversation with Ashley Thompson”, The Courtauld
2025 Artist Talk “Han Mengyun: Day and Night Practice”, AlUla Arts Festival, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2023 Artist Talk “Wrongness as Method”, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
2022 Artist Talk “Craft as Transcultural Practice”, ESEA Contemporary, Manchester
2022 Artist Talk, Open Practice Committee, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago
2021 Spirituality in Art Practice: Han Mengyun in conversation with Lulwah Al Homoud,
2021 Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021 Silent Thunder: The Intersection between Buddhism and Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing