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CIGE 2008
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Bowing Grace, 115x200cm, lightjet print, aluminum, acrylic glass, 2007
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.
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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

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