Jes Fan

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Installation view from The Socrates Annual 2019

Image courtesy of the artist and Socrates sculpture park.

Installation view from CAMP FIRES The Body As A Queer Stage

Image courtesy of the artist and UV Estudios.

Installation view from Kiss My Genders

Image courtesy of the artist and Hayward Gallery.

*Animacy Arrangement,* 2018

Image courtesy of the artist.

*Animacy Arrangement (Lick)*, 2018

Image courtesy of the artist.

*Animacy Arrangement (Cube)*, 2018

Image courtesy of the artist.

*Testo-Candle*, 2017

Image courtesy of the artist.

*Disposed to Add*, 2017, performance

Image courtesy of the artist and Vox Populi.

Jes Fan is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong, China. He is the recipient of various fellowships such as the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Van Lier Fellowship at Museum of Arts and Design and John A. Chironna Memorial Award at RISD. Fan has exhibited internationally; selected exhibitions include Kiss My Genders at Hayward Gallery (London/UK), Mother is a Woman at Empty Gallery (Hong Kong), An Opera for Animals at Rockbund Museum (Shanghai/CN), In Search of Miss Ruthless, Para Site, (Hong Kong), Paradox: Haptic Body in the Age of AI at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh/US), Disposed to Add at Vox Populi Gallery (Philadelphia/US). Fan has also participated in numerous artists residencies such as Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Recess Art, Smack Mellon and Pioneer Works. Fan’s work has been reviewed and featured by Artforum, Hyperallergic, AsiaArtPacific, BOMB magazine, Frieze magazine, Mousse Magazine. In 2020, Fan will be participating in the Biennale of Sydney and the Liverpool Biennale.

Education

2014

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) BFA in Glass

Awards

2019

Devra Freelander Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park

Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation

2017

Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Recipient

Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship, Museum of Arts and Design

Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts

2016

Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship, Wheaton Arts

2014

Award of Excellence, RISD Glass Department

2013

John A. Chironna Fellowship, RISD

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

Mother is a Woman, Empty Gallery, HK

2017

Disposed to Add, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

No Clearance in Niche, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

2016

Ot(her), Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

Biennale

2020 (Upcoming)

Sydney Biennale, Australia

Liverpool Biennale, United Kingdom

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

✧Slow Hand Movements ✧* Gentle Whispers * Water * Salt * Tingles *, Boers-li Gallery, NYC

Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time, Times Museum, Guangzhou

The Socrates Annual 2019, Socrates sculpture park, NYC

CAMP FIRES THE BODY AS A QUEER STAGE, UV Estudios, Argentina

Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London

An Opera for Animals, Rockbound Art Museum, Shanghai

An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong

In my room”, Antenna Space, Shanghai

no body to talk to, Invisible Exports, NYC

SportCult, Team Gallery, NYC

2018

Paradox: Haptic Body in the Age of AI, Carnegie Mellon University

Raw Design, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, USA,

2017

Uproot, Smack Mellon, New York, NY

Glass Ceiling, UrbanGlass, New York, NY

Timeshare, Zaha Hadid Building, NY

Set on Freedom, Queens Museum, NY

In Search of Miss Ruthless, Para Site, Hong Kong

From Dada to Tada, Fisher and Parrish, Brooklyn, NY

Threshold, Underdonk Gallery, New York, NY

Stranger Things, Outpost Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016

Whereabouts, Glazenhuis Museum, Belgium

2014

Material Location, UrbanGlass, New York, NY

Residency

2019-2020

Smack Mellon, NYC, USA

2019

Bemis Center for Arts, NE, USA

Recess Art, NYC USA,

2018

Alfred University, NY, USA

2017

Tyler School of Art, PA, USA

Spring Workshop, Hong Kong

Pioneer Works, NYC, USA

JesFan_Selected press_Nov_2019
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