Biography
Han Qian (b. 1993, Wuhan) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She currently lives and works between Wuhan and Kunming.
Her practice spans video, installation, performance, and printmaking. Over the years, she has been concerned with time, memory, and the material traces and historical residues that adhere to them. Beginning with micro-histories drawn from family narratives and industrial migration, her work traces the movements and settlements of several generations within rapidly shifting landscapes, re-examining questions of identity politics and geopolitical belonging.
In this process, her attention to individual experience extends toward broader forms of life. Through the reconfiguration of hidden clues and fragile materials, and by reorganizing residual objects, bodily gestures, and spatial relations, she attempts to bring overlooked ruptures back into visibility. Her practice is both a search for fragments forgotten within history and environment, and a call toward presence within absence—responding to trauma and unease while opening other ways of sensing lives at the margins of history.
CV
EDUCATION
2017 - 2021 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2012 - 2016 Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025, Vers la patrie invisible, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
2025, Mon Visage, Gallery Where, Beijing, China
2024, Whichever Stone You Left, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
2023, The Seeds Fall with the Wind Slows Down, Goethe Institut (China), Beijing, China
2023, Before the beginning and after the end..., ISA Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023, Videos by the Sea, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
2022, The Molten Reef, We Space, Shanghai, China
2021, Se tient au centre du monde avec une bande de herissons blottis, Silencieux, DNSAP, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2019, DNAP, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2019, Intervalles De La Durée, Galerie du Crous, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026, Inorganic Poetics, Mom Art Space, Hamburg, Germany
2026, Roots x Branches Beyond the Pacific, Chongqing Comtemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2026, Where Time Has Yielded, P.art Group, Shanghai, China
2026, Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe, Tai Kwun, Hongkong, China
2026, Earthed: Reconnecting with the ground, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2025, Laughter, Huang Xiaopeng Art & Education Society, Art Museum of Pond Loach, Qiangyuan, China
2025, Surplus Value, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
2025, Recovering Time, Annual Report of Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video,
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2025, To the Image: A Correspondence, Ennova Art Museum, Beijing, China
2025, Photographic Geomancy: Images, Fieldwork, and the Poetics of Geography, Fotografiska, Shanghai, China
2025, Still There, 69 Art Campus, Beijing, China
2025, Mobility and Gathering, Home and Me, Entrance Space, Hainan, China