Jes Fan

Left: Jes Fan, Wounding, 2022. Middle: Fragrant Harbor, 2022. Right: Apparatus, 2022. Installation view, The 59th La Biennale di Venezia 2022: The Milk of Dreams. Courtesy the artist and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

Left: Jes Fan, Wounding, 2022. Middle: Fragrant Harbor, 2022. Right: Apparatus, 2022. Installation view, The 59th La Biennale di Venezia 2022: The Milk of Dreams. Courtesy the artist and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

Diagram IX, 2021
Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.
Photo credit: Pierre Le Hors

Installation view from “The Stomach and the Port”, Liverpool Biennial 2021
Image courtesy of the artist and Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Photo credit: Stuart Whipps

Network (For Dispersal), detail, 2021,
Image courtesy of the artist and Liverpool Biennial 2021.
Photo credit: Stuart Whipps

Xenophoria, 2020
Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

Form Begets Function, 2020
Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

Installation view from 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN
Image courtesy of the artist and 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Hand Feeling (still), 2019
Image courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery.

Installation view from An Opera for Animals.
Image courtesy of the artist and Rockbound Art Museum, Shanghai.

Installation view from Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time
Image courtesy of the artist and Times Museum, Guangzhou.

Systems III, 2018
Image courtesy of the artist.
Jes Fan (b. Scarborough, Canada) lives and works in Hong Kong and Brooklyn, USA. Fan originally trained in glass making, but has expanded his practice to encompass diverse mediums and approaches. From videos to sculptures, His trans-disciplinary practice speculates on the intersection of biology and identity in relation to the materiality of the gendered and racialised body. Fan is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2022), Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2017), as well as the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019-2020). Recent exhibitions include Kunsthall Trondheim (2021); X Museum (2020); Rockbund Art Museum, China (2019); Hayward Gallery, UK (2019); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2018); and Museum of Arts and Design, USA (2017). Fan has also participated in numerous artist residencies with institutions including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Recess Art, Smack Mellon and Pioneer Works. He also participated in the Venice Biennale (2022), New Museum Triennial (2021), Liverpool Biennale (2021), Sydney Biennale (2020), Socrates Annual (2019). In 2023, he is opening a second solo show with Empty Gallery, titled Sites of Wounding: Part 1.