韩梦云 Han Mengyun China, b. 1989

Han Mengyun （b.1989, Wuhan, China), currently lives and works in Chengdu and London. Graduated from Bard College with a degree in Studio Art in 2012, Han explored painterly representations of eastern aesthetics and sensibilities with the abstract expressionist language that marks the artistic influence that she underwent in the US. Her quest for a deeper understanding of eastern philosophies prompted her to study Sanskrit at Kyoto University in Japan in 2015 and she continued her research and artistic practice at the MFA program at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2018. Her academic research undertaken at Oxford focuses on the interrelationship and interdependence of the arts addressed in Citrasūtra, the ancient Indian treatise on painting in Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa,which allows her to further investigateinto the territories where poetry and painting, language and image, merge and diverge.

During her studies of Sanskrit and Buddhism, as well as Buddhist mural paintings and sculptures, Han’s practice has witnessed a drastic change from abstraction back to representation, from the dichotomy between the East and the West to seeing the world in global connections and communications, in which styles and motifs in transit attest to the nature of hybridity in all forms of art and the task of an artist is that of a translator.