About this Artist
Young Sun Han (they/them; Brooklyn, NY) is a visual artist, curator and educator who shares stories through photography, performance, rituals, installation, and found objects. Their work reveals how marginalized individuals and communities negotiate and locate their sense of place within society and history. Han actively organizes and advocates with the Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network and the KQTx (Korean Queer Trans) National Network.
Han holds a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. They are the recipient of the Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship and Brovero Photography Prize. Han has also completed studies at the KHM, Cologne, Germany and Goldsmiths, University of London, England. They have held solo shows at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; The Print Center, Philadelphia; Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn, and group shows include the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ; David Zwirner, LMAK books+design, and Printed Matter Inc. all New York; as well as Independent Brussels, Belgium; 4A Centre of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand; Suter Contemporary Art Biennial, Nelson, New Zealand. Han completed residencies at the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin and Materia Abierta, Mexico City.
https://www.youngsunhan.com/