HAN Ishu

Profile

Born in 1987 in Shanghai, China. Based in Tokyo.
Earned his PhD in film and New Media Studies from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2025.

Recent exhibitions:
2025 "Prolonged Emergencies," The Museum of Art, Osaka
2025 "Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025: Time will Tell, " M+, Hong Kong
2025 Solo Exhibition "Art must be beautiful," Aomori Museum of Art
2024 "11th Asien Pacific Triennal of Contemporary Art," Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
2023 "Home Sweet Home," The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2022 "Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2022 Aichi Triennale 2022：Still Alive, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
2020 Solo Exhibition "ART LEAP 2019 'Your Kindness'," Kobe Art Village Center
2017 "TWS Shibuya Closing Event," Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
2017 "Shibuyajizai － Infinity, or Self-Territory," Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
2015 "In the Wake Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11," Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Award:
2025: The 36th Takashimaya Art Award
2020: Grand Prix, Nissan Art Award 2020
2014: ACC Grantee
2013: New Talent Award "Local Futures," He Xian Ning Art Museum, China

About works / performance

Through his own perspective, Han addresses questions regarding the complex relationship between individuals and society and the confusion caused by such relations. His performance based videos and installations, grounded in his own body as a point of departure, make visible the norms, systems, and structures of the gaze embedded in everyday society, at times inflected with subtle humor.