Jes Fan

Installation view from The Socrates Annual 2019
Image courtesy of the artist and Socrates sculpture park.

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.

Installation view from Kiss My Genders
Image courtesy of the artist and Hayward Gallery.

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
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Animacy Arrangement (Cube), 2018
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Testo-Candle, 2017
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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.