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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. Departing from micro-histories embedded in family narratives and industrial migration, her work traces the movements and settlements of several generations across rapidly shifting landscapes—re-examining questions of identity, geopolitical belonging, and the uneven textures of historical experience.
Her practice explores how historical experience persists in fragmented forms across bodies, objects, and landscapes. Working with fragile materials, residual bodily traces, and overlooked details, she traces connections between different temporal layers. Through the reconfiguration of archives, memories, and material remnants, she seeks to reveal forms of experience and existence that resist incorporation into linear historical narratives.
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, Difference in Common, Being Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2026, Embodied in the Woods, Wonderless Gallery, Ningbo, China
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
2024, The Vanished Garden, Shanghai, China
2024, Shanghai International Photography Festival, Shanghai, China
2024, The Near, The Far, Gallery Where, Beijing, China
2024, The Exhibition Of Annual of Contemporary Art Of China SHANGHAI(2023),
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2024, Fuxian Lake Travelogue, Hyperspace Art cube, Kunming, China
2024, Photographic Geomancy: Images, Fieldwork, and the Poetics of Geography,
Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2024, Citywalk Together, Nomadism is a permanent displacement, Entrance Space, Zhengzhou, China
2023, From the Other Hill, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
2023, Foggy Island, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2023, Fluidscape, Unique Art Center, Chengdu, China
2023, At Sunrise and Sunset, Tides Rise and Fall, QiMu Space, Beijing, China
2023, Knock, Knock, Knock, Prework x Veenue Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022, Polar Night, Yell Space, Mianyang, China
2022, Darkness Repeats, Zeto Art, Paris, France
2021, Jardin Secret, Théâtre des Exposition, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2019, Photo Saint Germain, Paris, France
2019, Concrete China, Galerie Raibaudi Wang, Paris, France
2018, Fake Festival, Galerie Paris Horizon, Paris, France
SCREENING / FESTIVAL
2026, 8litheque, Paris, France
2026, U&M Space, Guangzhou, China
2025, The Third Familylens International Film Festival, Beijing, China
2025, Crossing: A collaborative screening program taking place across China, Wam x CGK x KADIST, Kunming, China
2025, BAM Film, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2024, Hishorts! Film Festival, Xiamen, China
2024, Wuhan Bailin Film Festival, Wuhan, China
2024, Searching for my connection to this land, Qiantai OSF, Guangzhou, China
2024, Geography and Identity in Images, Guangdong Times Museum,
Guangzhou, China
2024, CIFRA & Sleepless Art Night, Venice, Italy
2024, Chinese Film Festival Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2024, Festival La Prèmier Fois Film Documentaire, Marseille, France
2023, IV Festival de Videoartistas Chinas, Cuernavaca, Mexico
2023, Natural Vicissitude - Abandoned Territories, Pixel Row Vol.5, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
2023, Videos by the Sea: Stillness Between Two Waves of the Sea, Goethe Institut (China), Beijing, China
2023, Videos by the Sea: Stillness Between Two Waves of the Sea, He Art Museum, Shunde, China
2022, Floating, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2022, Festival ISOKORPUS, Annecy au Théâtre de l'Échange, Annecy, France
2021, Poem and Video Art, La Strada, Suzhou, China
2021, Poem and Video Art, Jiazazhi, Ningbo, China
2021, Park Chae Biole and Park Chae Dalle, La Maison Fraternelle, Paris, France
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2026, Insight, Greater Khingan, China
2026, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2025, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
2024, Gazelleer-Novel, Tengchong, China
2023, Grand Corner x Fuxian Art Project, Chengjiang, China
2022, Goethe Institut (China) x Cache Space, Beijing, China
ART FAIR
2020, La Representation D'Inquietude Et L'Inquiétude De La Représentation, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
AWARDS
2024, Finalists for “New Ways of Seeing" section, Sleepless Video Art Night, CIFRA, Venice, Italy
2024, Special Mention Award, Hamburg Chinese Film Festival, Germany
CO-CURATED PROJECT
2022, Field and Its Disguises: Six Thesis, Research-Based Curatorial Project Shortlist, OCAT, Beijing, China
Project Team: Chen Baiqi, Cheng Xinhao, Han Qian, Yang Yunchang
MEDIA FEATURE
Embodied in the Woods
How are you faring in the global supply chain? Technology, labour and human conditions in ‘Staying Connected’
Connecting Asian Women Artists (CAWA), Work from Home: Six Women Artists Working from the Domestic
DUOLUN VOICE | VOL.143 HAN QIAN: Stillness Between Two Waves of the Sea
Connecting Asian Women Artists (CAWA), Wandering into the Depths of Nature: Fieldwork and Environmental Narratives of Contemporary Chinese Women Artists
ARTBBS｜HAN QIAN: Old Shoes and a Long Journey
Ennova Art Museum, Conversation Review | Pain in Motion: The Gaze of the Imagination and Concealed Women’s History
Han Qian | Mon Visage
LEAP, Working Hours | Han Qian:But heard, half-heard
The Art Journal: From The Knowledge of Love to The Flying Tiger – 11 creators’ recommendations of female reading
Artisle, Talk ｜ HAN QIAN: The Flow of Memory
LEAP, Le « labyrinthe des illusions » (milou) et la réalité : à la recherche des spectres de la société
The Art Journal, TAJ Review 2024 | Looking back at 2024 through 42 solo exhibitions by 28 Chinese artists: A breakthrough year for female artists, and a surge of activity from all quarters in the search for new creative horizons
Centre for Experimental Film, The Asynchronous Witness
The Art Journal, New Perspectives | Here in a Foreign Land: Han Qian’s Media of Memory and Nostalgic Nostalgia
ArtReview, ARC Exhibition Review | Displaced Writing, Vanishing Routes – A Review of Han Qian’s Solo Exhibition Whichever Stone You Left
Vogue, Art Club |Six young artists reflecting on nature, humanity, technology and cultural phenomena whilst travelling
ING | Drift, linger, then carry on
The Seeds Fall with the Wind Slows Down
ARTBBS, BBSpeak | HAN QIAN:An Unintended Memorial
Buoyant Views｜HAN QIAN: Before the beginning and after the end...
Ocula Spotlight | How Do Objects Speak? — The Gains and Losses of the Aranya Trio Exhibition
Radius，At the Aranya Lonely Library: a memory of times gone by
Buoyant Views｜Han Qian’s Homeland, Memories and Nostalgia
ARTFORUM, The Molten Reef｜ARTFORUM Review
Reviews The Molten Reef: A depiction of bounded spaces and open memories
The Molten Reef: A Discussion of Recent Works by Han Qian and Zhao Yu
PUBLICATION
2025, «Why Walk?» , ARTNOW
2024, «The City We Live In» ,Shanghai International Photography Festival&The 17TH Shanghai International Photography Art Exhibition
2024, «Work Time» , LEAP, Fall/Winter
2024, « labyrinthe des illusions » (milou) et la réalité : à la recherche des spectres de la société, LEAP, Habiter Le Flux, Édition franco-chinoise
2024, «Displaced Writing, Vanishing Routes – A Review of Han Qian’s Solo Exhibition Whichever Stone You Left», ArtReviews, Summer Issue
2023, «From the Other Hill» , Beijing Jin Shangyi Art Foundation
2023, «Obtaining New Language and Memory in Artist-in-Residency» , Art Monthly
AS AN ACTOR
2025, «Volunteer Diary | Nan Ren Sa Yong: Between Preservation and Interpretation» , Shanshui Conservation Centre
2024, «Walking Home: An Artist Retraces Her Family Migration During China’s Industrial Age» , Out of Eden Walk, Participating in the Chinese section of the Paul Salopek Out of Eden Walk
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