Jes Fan
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 Creative Capital Wild Futures Grant (2024), 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 Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, KADIST, San Francisco, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, (2023); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 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 presented a second solo show with Empty Gallery, Sites of Wounding: Chapter 1. Sites of Wounding: Chapter 2 recently closed as part of M+ Museum’s Sigg Prize 2023 exhibition.
He is jointly represented by Empty Gallery and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
Current:
Perhaps The Truth
Ballroom Marfa, Texas
October 4, 2023 – March 30, 2024
UPCOMING:
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing
Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes
March 20, – August 11, 2024
Greater Toronto Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Curated by Kate Wong, Ebony L. Haynes, and Toleen Touq
March 23 – July 28, 2024
Artist’s Talk with Sin Wai Kin: March 23, 2PM
Boundless Reverie: Chinese Savoir-Faire and Contemporary Art
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
March 26 – May 19, 2024
Recent Press:
Siddhartha Mitter, ‘Whitney Biennial Picks a ‘Dissonant Chorus’ of Artists to Probe Turbulent Times‘, New York Times
Maxwell Rabb, ‘Creative Capital announces the recipients of the 2024 “Wild Futures” art awards‘, Artsy
Tiana Reid, ‘Jes Fan, Creator of Haunting Sculptures, Manipulates Materials on a Molecular Level‘, Cultured
Stephanie Bailey, Form and Function Come Alive at ICA, Philadelphia, Ocula