Ren Han

Ren Han (; born February 27, 1984, in Tianjin) is a Chinese contemporary artist.

Biography Ren Han was born in 1984 in Tianjin, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2006, then he graduated from the Villa Arson (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art in Nice) in 2011 and obtained the DNSEP (National Superior Diploma of Expression of Plastic Arts). In the same year, he was selected for the Jeune Creation in France. In 2017 Ren Han won the Rock Award from Wang Shikuo Art Foundation and Today Art Museum. In 2019 he was selected for the Salon de Montrouge and received the fellowship from the French Ministry of Culture, Department of Hauts-de-Seine and city of Montrouge.

Ren Han's work can be regarded as a series of systematic researches on artistic creation, image, and visual experience, which are deeply rooted in the context of visual cultural consumption in the post-network era. His works include drawings, installations, and site-specific works. He reproduces and processes ready-made objects/images. The strange and primitive relationship between human beings and nature is the theme often discussed by Ren Han. He questions the meaning of human beings’ continuous construction and destruction driven by desire. The duality presented in his works not only denote the eternal co-existence of binary oppositions of self and other, but also the philosophical relationships of mind and matter, mind and body, as well as man and nature.

In addition to his work as an artist, He is also the co-founder of the Space Regeneration Projects.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

2020 "Bibliothèque de Ren Han", Yishu 8 Chez Tante Martine, Paris, France 2019 "Solo Show", Raibaudi Wang Gallery, Paris 2017 "Void and Ashes", Qi Mu Space, Beijing 2016 "Mirror Image", C-Space, Beijing 2015 "Emergence", LAB 47, Beijing 2014 "Emulating Nature", C-Space, Beijing 2012 "Studiolo #2", Less Is More Projects, Paris

Selected group exhibitions 2021 Wake-Up Call, Poush Manifesto, Paris 2020 A Kind of Form, Song Art District, Beijing 2019 A Ten Year, OWSPACE X Taikang Space, Aranya 64e Salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge 2017 A New Collection of Poetry, AMNUA, Nanjing Amassing Force – 2017 Wang Shikuo Award: Exhibition of Nominated Contemporary Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing Multiple Halo, XI Contemporary Center, Dongguan 2016 Puzzles, OCAT Xi'an, Xi'an Up-Youth: Young Artists Experiment Field, Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing Ghost in Flash: After Photography, Taikang Space, Beijing 2015 JIMEI x ARLES International Photo Festival| Engine: The Imagetriggered Mechanism of Artistic Production, Jiageng Art Center, Xiamen 24 Art Project – Naissance, Today Art Museum, Beijing 2014 Everyday Anxiety – the 5th Jinan International Photography Biennial, Art Museum of Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan Look Into the Far Horizon – New Voices of Chinese Contemporary Art, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice Paper Being, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin 2013 Unboundedness, China Cultural Center in Berlin, Berlin ABC, Austrian Embassy in China, Beijing Consciousness – Exhibition of Tianjin Contemporary Artists, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin Contemporary Spirituality, Eglise Saint-Louis de l'hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris 2012 New Directions: Young Chinese Contemporary Artists, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow 2011 Jeune Création 2011, Centquatre, Paris Demain C’est Loin, Galerie de la Marine and Villa Arson, Nice