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CIGE 2008
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Bowing Grace, 115x200cm, lightjet print, aluminum, acrylic glass, 2007
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Debbie HAN (1969~)
Korean-American artist Debbie Han investigates in her works the issues of how human experiences are shaped and defined in contemporary culture. In her recent sculpture and photo series, she questions the accepted cultural practice of the idealization of feminine body by subversively altering its form and cultural context. Since 2004, Han has been pursuing ceramic sculpture series titled ‘Terms of Beauty,’ for which she sculpts the face of Venus in the multitude of racial and ethnic characteristics. Her reconstructed Venuses are made in the ancient Korean ceramic technique of celadon. Her photo series, ‘Graces’ and ‘An Everyday Venus’ capture bodies of actual Asian women, which are combined with prototypical Western classical heads with digitally altered skin to marble-like smoothness. These metaphorical, hybrid figures simultaneously embody such contradictions as the ideal and actual, past and present, and the occidental and oriental.. These allegorical figures metaphorically reflect the current cultural trends and realities. . Debbie Han’s works have been shown internationally, with solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seoul, and Valencia, Spain. She has had over 40 group exhibitions in Asia, USA and Europe. Han also has received numerous fellowships and residency awards in USA and Asia. Her most recent award includes 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She is currently working at ARCUS Project international artist residency in Japan. EDUCATION 1999 M.F.A., New Forms, Pratt Institute, New York 1993 B.A., Art, University of California Los Angeles AWARDS AND HONORS 2007 ARCUS Project, Artist-in-Residence, Ibaraki, Japan 2007 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York 2006 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Nebraska, USA 2006 Schinkel Progressive Residency, Artist-in-Residence, Berlin 2004 Ssamzie Space, Artist-in-Residence, Seoul 2003 Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, International Artist Residency, Gwangju, Korea 2001 Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship Award, Artist-in-Residence, Vermont, USA 2000 Korea Arts Foundation of America Visual Arts Award, Los Angeles 1991- 93 UCLA Lilian Levinson Art Fellowship, Los Angeles SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 Hybrid Graces, Gallery TouchArt, Heyri Art Valley, Korea 2007 Debbie Han, Galeria Punto, Valencia, Spain 2006 Visions of Beauty, Freddie Fong Gallery, San Francisco 2006 DEBBIEHAN, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul 2005 Terms of Beauty, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul 2004 Idealistic Oddity, Brain Factory Gallery, Seoul 2002 Condom Series, Gallery 825, Los Angeles 1999 Sweet World, Steuben East Gallery, New York GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 Good Morning Mr. Nam June Paik, The Korean Cultural Center UK, London The Border of Virtuality: Korean and Chinese Media Art Now, Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing Debbie Han, Todd Williamson, LA contemporary, Losangeles The Big and Hip Korean Photography, Rho Gallery, Seoul Stands Off 08, Galeria Punto, Valencia A’s Paradise, Songgok Museum, Seoul Art Fair Tokyo 2008, Tokyo Beijing Art Fair(CIGE), Beijing The Christies Auction, Hong Kong FORM London 2008, London 2007 Reality Crossings: 2nd International photo festival Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg Wilhelm hack Museum, Ludwigshafen Gegen den Strich, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin To the Furthest Verge, I-MY Projects, London ARCUS Project Open Studio Exhibition, Ibaraki ARCO-The Contemporary International Art Fair of Sapain, Madarid Reconstructing Masterpieces, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul In Touch of the Present, Wada Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Society, Trunk Gallery, Seoul The Christie’s Auction, Hong Kong The Bridge Art Fair, London 2006 Media City Special Exhibition: Mertz’s Room, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Made in Korea, Gallerie Martine et Thibault de la Chartre, Paris Spotlight Thirty Women, Papertainer Museum, Seoul Hybrid Trend, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Ultrasense, Topohouse Gallery, Seoul The Christie’s Auction, Hong Kong 2005 Reinventing Heritage, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Media in ‘F”, Ewha Arts Center, Seoul Ssamzie Open Studio Exhibition, Ssamzie Space, Seoul Gourmet, Cais Gallery, Seoul Mobile Home Project, Santa Monica Civic Center, Santa Monica 2004 Composition and Center, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul 2003 Pillars, Leband Art Gallery, Los Angeles 2002 Santa Monica College Faculty Exhibition, Madison Gallery, Santa Monica Juried Alumni Exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York L.A. Portraits, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California Winter Group Show, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica Relative Objects, Post Gallery, Los Angeles Transformation, Gallery 825, Los Angeles 2001 KAFA Award for Visual Arts Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center Gallery, Los Angeles Pulp, Gallery 825, Los Angeles $99 SHOW, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California 2000 ART2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California Contemporary Art 2000, Korean Cultural Center Gallery, Los Angeles 1999 Apocalypse 1999, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York New Art ’99, Kingston Gallery, Boston National Juried Exhibition, Cinque Gallery, New York 1997 Spirituality in Art, Freddie Fong Contemporary Art Gallery, San Francisco 1994 Downtown Lives, Downtown Arts Development Association, Los Angeles Indigenous People, T. Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles |
