Bang Geul Han 한 방글

BiographyBorn and raised in Seoul, Korea, in 1978 and based in the US since 2003, Bang Geul Han’s work has been shown in venues including The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, NURTUREart, A.I.R. Gallery, The 8th Floor at The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, Smack Mellon in New York City, and Centro Internazionale per l’Arte Contemporanea in Rome. She is a recipient of a number of artist residencies and fellowships, including Creative Capital Award, Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program, A.I.R. Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, PA. Han received her MFA (2005) in Electronic Integrated Arts from NYSCC at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, and her BFA (2002) in Painting from Seoul National University in Korea. Han's work has been reviewed and featured in 4Columns, Art Papers, Art in America, The AMP, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Brooklyn Rail. Han works and lives in New York City.

Artist StatementMy art practice critically engages with manifestations of activities often associated with the feminine: talking about emotions, confessions, eavesdropping, and gossiping. I’m interested in text as sites of disclosure and declaration that blur and complicate the distinction between public and private. I collect and reorganize select texts, including legal documents, government memoranda, and written and spoken words by figures in positions of power, and create patterns in the intersections between reproductive rights, misogyny, and questions of race and class, while injecting stories or formal interventions to disrupt dominant narratives. Many of my artworks, whether in the form of virtual reality or experimental textiles, function as alternative archives that center and connect the voices of those in the margins while highlighting both the systemic limitations and the subversive potential of language and technology. In my recent practice, weaving has become a visual and tactile manifestation of the analytical and methodical process of coding, allowing me to create work with a broader range of registers that viewers can enter, from meditative and analytical to interactive and immersive.