BIO: YoAhn Han

Yo Ahn Han is a visual artist from the Republic of Korea. He has received his BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from MassArt. Han is teaching at MassArt as an assistant Professor and RISD as a visiting Lecturer. His work is a visual dialogue between suppression and desire, a duality which speaks to both his experience of cerebral arteriovenous malformation and to his bifurcated cultural identity. His work has been shown internationally in the United States, South Korea, and the Netherlands. Recent solo shows include “My Princess, Bari”(2015) at ART MORA Gallery in New York, “Botanical Rhapsody”(2019), “Seeking Serenade”(2021) at Chase Young Gallery and “Soils of Tinctured Embodiment”(2020) at Berry Group Office in Boston. Yo Ahn Han has recently been appointed as a juror for Beacon Gallery “totem” group exhibition (2020) and biannual painting& Drawing fellowship for Massachusetts Cultural council (2020) Additionally, Han has been featured in Boston – Art Review Issue 01, Eagle Tribune (2018), New England Home, Boston Globe, Tupelo Quarterly, and Arte Realizzata (2021)

In recent years (2021 – 2022), Han has shown in greater Boston area, including solo exhibitions as “Seeking Serenade” at Chase Young Gallery, ““In Search of Floral Bodies” at Fitchburg Art Museum alongside several group shows as “Triple Oscillation” at MassArt x SOWA Gallery, “Quotidian Queer” University hall gallery at UMass Boston, and “Line (선)/Seon( Line), Fort Point Art Community Gallery. He is also a participant of 32nd MassArt Benefit LIVE auction.

Han has just shown at exhibitions are two persons show at Studio Artego, “Hyperphantasia”, New York (September, 2022) and there will be a forthcoming Solo show at Chase Young Gallery (March 2023)

Experience

Teaching & Lecture

• Juror at Massachusetts Cultural Council biennial Painting Fellowship, April of 2020
• Juror at Beacon Gallery Group show, “Totem” December 2019
• Panel Discussion at MassArt PCE Think Thursday: “Drawing in a Wired World” December 6th 2018
• MassArt, Boston, MA – Assistant Professor at MFA – BLR (since 2017)
• MassArt, Boston, Ma – Visiting Lecturor at Studio Foundation (since 2017)
• Art All State Artist Mentor, Dartmouth, MA (since 2015)
• Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA – Instructor (since 2015)
• RISD, Providence, RI – Visiting Critic at Illustration Dept

Visiting Lecturer

2018

• Discussion penal of “Drawing in a wired world” at MassArt PCE department
• Harvard University GSD (Graduate School of Design), Cambridge, MA: (Prof/Artist. Ewa Harabasz – Drawing for Design: Ink Drawing)

2017

• Harvard University GSD (Graduate School of Design), Cambridge, MA: (Prof/Artist. Ewa Harabasz – Drawing for Design: Ink Drawing)
• Brookline Gateway arts Artists (Studio Visit)

2016

• Harvard University GSD (Graduate School of Design), Cambridge, MA: (Prof/Artist. Ewa Harabasz – Drawing for Design: Ink Drawing)
• MassArt, Graduate Seminar Class (Prof. Sharon Dunn)

2015

• Master of Fine Art, Boston, MA: (Prof. Sharon Dunn – LOW-RESIDENCY IN BOSTON) Studio Class

2014

• Harvard University GSD (Graduate School of Design), Cambridge, MA: Architecture Program (Professor/Artist Ewa Harabasz – Landscape as Painting Seminar

Review Panel

• MassArt Printmaking, MassArt Low –Residency MFA class Final
• Harvard University GSD (Graduate School of Design) Architecture

Teaching Assistant

• 2012 – 2014: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
• (Ewa Harabasz, Roger Tibetts, Colin Asper, Karishka Raja)
• 2007 – 2008: Bay Music & Art, Hayward, CA (private art institute)