Ren Han

Ren Han (Chinese: 任瀚; pinyin: Rén Hàn; born February 27, 1984 in Tianjin) is a Chinese contemporary artist.

Ren Han was born in 1984 in Tianjin, China. He studied from 2002 to 2006 at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in the department of oil painting. From 2007 to 2011, he lives in France. In 2011, he graduated DNSEP (Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique) from Villa Arson Nice. Han Ren is developing a drawing praxis. He works almost solely with lead pencil-a technique whose visual properties he is methodically exploring. So his wall drawings involve huge panoramas wavering between abstract landscape and cartography.

His drawings and installations, borrow the labyrinth, the mirror, the virtual landscape to evoke dualities ambivalence or opposition of opposites which are the key fundamental of his artistic research, and we reposition the face of the paradoxes of our conflicting instincts.

Solo Exhibitions

2012

• Paris, Less Is More Projects, "Studiolo #2| Ren Han"

Group Exhibitions

2012

• Paris, Less Is More Projects, "We Love You"
• Moscow, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, "New Directions: Young Chinese Contemporary Artists"
• Paris, Apartement - Gallery Dakota, "Apartement # Special – FIAC"
• Beijing, Beijing Guanghua5 Art Exhibition Space, "Boom!, Exhibition of China Young Artists Project(CYAP)"
• Paris, Atelier Richelieu, "Chic Dessin"
• Paris, Less Is More Projects, "Lightness"

2011

• Paris, CENTQUATRE, Jeune Création 2011
• Paris, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Art protects
• Nice, Galerie de la Marine et Villa Arson, Demain c’est loin
• Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, FID 2011 - the 3rd edition International Fair of Drawing

2005

• Beijing, Suojiacun Art Zone, Beijing Documenta – Pleasure Production

2004

• Beijing，Tianjin，Chongqing，Hangzhou，Suzhou，Xi’an, Independent Film Festival – Scarification
• Beijing, Today Art Museum/University Tsinghua, Exhibition of Young Artists