Additional information
| Artist | Han |
|---|---|
| Country | American, Chinese |
| Region | North American |
ArtistHan Qin
Artist Years1988-living
Artist NationalityAmerican, Chinese
TitleKnow by Heart
Year2024
MediumPrint > Monotype
DimensionsPlate: 15.7 X 19.8 inches
Description
Monotype in colors, signed and dated in pencil and annotated with title, printed on heavy, white wove paper, 2-inch margins.
ProvenancePurchased from the artist, August 2024.
Accession NumberRC1499
NotesHan Qin was born in Xiaoshan, one of ten urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, in East China. As a child she liked to dance and took lessons from local teachers until the age of 10.
In 1998, the family moved to the center of Hangzhou where she discovered cartoon books. She was fascinated by the drawings of the characters and began to draw, copying the cartoon characters at first, then creating new ones. Discovering her attraction to drawing, she began to take art lessons from local art teachers.
In 2006 she enrolled at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou (founded in 1928) to study printmaking and was graduated in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (BFA).
In 2011 Qin opened a workshop/studio with three artistic friends as a commercial venture. The venture failed to make money and in 2013 Qin went back to the China Academy of Art and enrolled in a graduate program, graduating in 2013 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree.
In 2012, during her tenure as a graduate student Qin married Wanchang Zhao, then an engineering student in the USA. The couple shuttled between the US and China for a while, and had their first child, a boy, Xavier, in 2013. Eventually, the couple settled on New York’s Long Island.
In 2014 Han enrolled in a graduate program for digital arts at Pratt Institute in New York City graduating in 2016 with another MFA in digital art.
In 2017, Han Qin was appointed Adjunct Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Art, where she remains today.
Han attributes her inspiration to art to her own life experiences, and draws from travelers and wanderers she encountered along the way. She credits much to Henri Matisse after seeing the exhibition of the Cut-Outs at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2014. She also credits fellow Chinese artists Huang Yongyu and Xu Bing, and Carla Gannsis, from her Pratt days, for inspiration.
Stylistically, Han Qin’s oeuvre in printmaking is broad, ranging from traditional woodcuts to digitally rendered photographic, and cyanotype prints.
Han has exhibited extensively in the United States and China. She is the recipient of 2023 NYSCA (New York State Council of the Arts) grant and a grantee of the NYFA (New York Foundation of the Arts) immigrant mentoring program. She has also translated many lectures, and organized the highly successful China Academy of Art Masters’ Workshop Series introducing American artists and established pioneers in the fields of printmaking and digital art to China.
(source: wikipedia.org)