Jes Fan

Left: Wounding, 2022. Middle: Fragrant Harbor, 2022. Right: Apparatus, 2022.
Installation view, The 59th La Biennale di Venezia 2022: ‘The Milk of Dreams’

Left: Wounding, 2022. Middle: Fragrant Harbor, 2022. Right: Apparatus, 2022.
Installation view, The 59th La Biennale di Venezia 2022: ‘The Milk of Dreams’

Installation view of Network (for Dispersal), 2021, at Liquid Ground, UCCA Dune, 2022
Photography by Sun Shi
Courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Diagram IX, 2021
Photo: Pierre Le Hors

Installation view from ‘The Stomach and the Port,’ Liverpool Biennial, 2021
Image courtesy of the artist and Liverpool Biennial 2021
Photo: Stuart Whipps

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

Xenophoria, 2020 (still)

Form Begets Function, 2020

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, 2019 (still)

Installation view from ‘An Opera for Animals,’ 2019
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
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 MIT List Visual Arts Center, UCCA Dune (2022); 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 will present a second solo show with Empty Gallery, titled Sites of Wounding: Part 1.