Jes Fan, Liquid Ground
September 19, 2022 – February 19, 2023, UCCA Dune, Beijing, China
Jes Fan, The Milk Of Dreams
April 23 – November 27, 2022, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Jes Fan, The Milk Of Dreams
April 23 – November 27, 2022, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Jes Fan
Wounding, 2022
Glass, Aqua Resin, metal, wood, silicone
87 3/4 x 52 3/4 x 28 inches (222.9 x 134 x 71.1 cm)
Jes Fan
Fragrant Harbour, 2022
Glass, Aqua resin, Metal, Wood, Silicone
75 x 44 7/8 x 31 inches (190.5 x 114 x 78.7 cm)
Jes Fan
Apparatus, 2022
Glass, aqua resin, metal, wood, silicone
61 3/4 x 35 3/4 x 44 7/8 inches (156.8 x 90.8 x 114 cm)
Jes Fan, Soft Water Hard Stone
October 28, 2021 – January 23, 2022, The Fifth New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York
Jes Fan, Soft Water Hard Stone
October 28, 2021 – January 23, 2022, The Fifth New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York
Jes Fan, The Stomach and the Port
March 20 - June 20, 2021, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jes Fan, The Stomach and the Port
March 20 - June 20, 2021, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jes Fan
Diagram XIII, 2021
Resin, selenium glass, glass, pigments
7 x 10 x 36 inches (17.8 x 25.4 x 91.4 cm)
Jes Fan
Diagram XIV, 2021
Aqua resin, glass, pigment
8 3/4 x 12 x 3 1/2 inches (22.2 x 30.5 x 8.9 cm)
Jes Fan
Diagram XVI, 2021
Glass, aqua resin, pigments
15 x 8 x 8 inches (38.1 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Jes Fan
Diagram XVII, 2021
Glass, aqua resin, pigments
8.5 x 18.0 x 5.5 inches (21.6 x 45.7 x 14 cm)
Jes Fan
Xenophoria, 2018-2020
Video (HD color)
00:07:35
Jes Fan
Mother Is A Woman (Cream), 2019
Estrogen, lotion, test tube, silicone, pigment
10 x 8 x 3 inches (25.4 x 20.3 x 7.6 cm)
Jes Fan, Mother Is A Woman
March 27 – June 2, 2018, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Jes Fan, Mother Is A Woman
March 27 – June 2, 2018, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Jes Fan, Mother Is A Woman
March 27 – June 2, 2018, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Jes Fan, Mother Is A Woman
March 27 – June 2, 2018, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Jes Fan, Mother Is A Woman
March 27 – June 2, 2018, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Jes Fan’s interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection of biology and identity, incorporating living matter, as well the invisible substances that shape how we experience the world like melanin, and hormones, into his sculptures. Through this process, Fan looks at how these highly politicized materials form our understanding of the social constructs of race and gender, and the absurd pursuit to locate these to quantifiable amounts of material. Originally trained in glassmaking, Fan combines hand-blown cellular glass forms with casts made from sections of human bodies, cast in aqua resin and bearing uncanny flesh-like tones. Removed from the context of the figure, these forms take on abstract qualities, repeated and distorted across architectural armatures, suggesting an experience of the body that is increasingly intertwined with, and mediated by technology.
Jes Fan lives and works in Brooklyn and Hong Kong. Sites of Wounding: Interchapter, an exhibition of Fan's new works, is on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery through December 20, 2024. In 2026, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven will present a solo exhibition of Fan’s work. Fan was included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and Greater Art Toronto. Recently, Sites of Wounding: Chapter 2 was on view at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong for the 2023 Sigg Prize exhibition. In 2022, Fan participated in The Milk of Dreams The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Cecilia Alemani, Venice. Additionally, Fan's work is included in Scientia Sexualis, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles through March 2, 2025. In the past, Fan’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2022, Breaking Water, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2022, Soft Water Hard Stone, The Fifth New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, 2021, The Stomach and the Port, Liverpool Biennale, United Kingdom, 2021, NIRIN, Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2020, The Socrates Annual 2019, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, 2019. Fan was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2022.
Jes Fan participates to Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24), the second edition of MOCA Toronto’s recurring triennial exhibition, which was conceived in 2021 to look more closely and consistently at artistic practices with a connection to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Featuring a constellation of twenty-five intergenerational artists, duos, and collectives, GTA24 looks back as much as it looks forward. The exhibition presents work made between the 1960s and the present, allowing the comingling of art created in different decades to provide new ways of understanding the current moment and imagining the future.
Jes Fan's works are presented on the occasion of the eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial, the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States. The Whitney Biennial 2024 features seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today’s most pressing issues.
