Xia Han

 

Xia Han was born in Shanghai in 1993. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from East China Normal University and an Honors Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts. He currently lives and works in Shanghai and online.

Xia Han’s artistic endeavors revolve around the realms of computer games, consumer culture, and the ethical implications of technology. His creative practice predominantly employs game engines and video as the primary mediums for artistic expression. He treats the game scene as a stage, and the audience as characters to build a virtual landscape theater of utopia and ruins, desire and loss, mostly in pessimistic colors. Presently, Han conducts research and exploration, utilizing video games as a medium for communication and as a means to delve into the intricacies of their distinctive language.

 

Recent Solo Exhibitions:

2024 Gas Station X, Vanguard gallery, Shanghai

2023 The Sweat of Arabica, WS GALLERY X ShanghART, Shanghai

2023 Technologic, 33ml offspace, Shanghai

 

Selected Group Exhibitions: 

2024 The Journey FROM the Center of the Earth, Shanghai Bund Art Center, Shanghai

2023 Erotic Codex, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; A Real Engine, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei

2023 Technologic, 33ml offspace, Shanghai

2022 FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo

2021 Hereditary Territory, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai

2020 Over the Real, Lucca

2020 Environmental Crisis, Gerald Moore Gallery, London

2020 The Wake UP! Memorial, New Media Fest 2020, Cologne

2019 Spread the Virus’ Vol 2, offsiteproject & dateagle, London

2019 Late at Tate Britain, Tate Britain, London