Jes Fan
Contrapposto, 2023. PLA filaments, resin, pigment, glass, metal, 86 x 35 x 27 inches.
Bivalve I, 2023. Polymer bonded resin, fiberglass, glass, pigments, metal, 51 x 32 x 18 inches.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Toronto, Canada, 1990
Resides: Brooklyn, New York and Hong Kong
Education: Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A., 2014)
Pronouns: They/Them
Website: jesfan.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Sites of Wounding: Interchapter,” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.
2023
“Sites of Wounding: Chapter 2,” Sigg Prize finalist exhibition, M+ Museum, Hong Kong.
“Sites of Wounding: Chapter 1,” Empty Gallery, Hong Kong.
2022
“Mother Is a Woman,” Empty Gallery, Hong Kong.
2017
“No Clearance in Niche,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York.
“Disposed to Add,” Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.
2016
“Ot(her),” Sarah Doyle Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
SELECTED GROUPS EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
“Greater Toronto Triennial 2024,” MOCA Toronto.
“Weight of Mind,” CCS Bard at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
“Dream States,” Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines.
2023
“de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas (from the underwater mountains fire makes islands),” KADIST, San Francisco.
“Perhaps the Truth,” Ballroom Marfa, Texas.
“Moveables,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
“More Than Human,” Blanc Art Space, Beijing, China.
“Industrial Rhapsody,” Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany.
2022
“Biennale Arte 2022: The Milk of Dreams,” The 59th Venice Biennale, Italy.
“Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Liquid Ground,” UCCA Dune, Beijing, China.
“from the underwater mountains fire makes islands,” Pivô, Brazil.
“Transactions with Eternity,” Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
2021
“2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone,” New Museum, New York.
“CAMP FIRES THE BODY AS A QUEER STAGE,” Last Tango, Zurich, Switzerland.
“Body Electric,” Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, Miami.
“Slow Hand Movements*Gentle Whispers*Water*Salt*Tingles*,” Boers-li Gallery, New York.
“Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time,” Times Museum, Guangzhou, China.
2018
“Paradox: Haptic Body in the Age of AI,” Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
“Raw Design,” Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco.