Ren Han, born in Tianjin in 1984, currently lives and works in Paris. In 2006, he obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Oil Painting at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. In 2011, he earned a master’s degree from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts à la Villa Arson in France. He has participated in art residencies in Paris, Lyon, and Matsudo.

The year Han was born coincides with the title of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984”. His upbringing coincided with the rapid urbanization of China and the global proliferation of the internet. He integrates mythology, nature, and digital images into his works, using drawing, installations, and site-specific works to conduct a series of studies and reflections based on visual culture consumption in the pan-internet era. He once said, “I question the meaning of humans continuously constructing and destroying driven by desire,” and his work is a Sisyphean response to this world.

His works have been exhibited at the Monnaie de Paris, Centquatre Art Center, Cité Internationale des Arts; the New Franco-Chinese University Museum in Lyon; the Asian Arts Museum in Nice; the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival in Xiamen; Today Art Museum, Times Art Museum, and Taikang Space in Beijing; Nanjing University of the Arts Museum; OCAT Xi’an; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, among others. He has also held solo exhibitions in Paris, Lyon, Berlin, and Beijing. In 2024, he was invited by UCCA Lab to create a large-scale site-specific installation for Arc’teryx.