Jennifer Boyuan Han
Art for the Family, 2025
rice paper, acrylic on canvas
20 x 20 inches
C-lective Curator’s Cut:
This piece is Jennifer’s love letter to the non-traditional family, reflecting her upbringing surrounded by diverse cultural identities. For her, family was defined not by sameness, but by love, connection, and shared time. Each figure in the work represents a different background, unified through vibrant colors and warmth. Yet, the presence of wires as hair signals the inescapable role of technology, a thread woven through even her earliest memories. Did it connect her family? Sometimes. Did it steal moments? Certainly. Jennifer invites us to reflect on our own memories, embrace difference, and imagine a future where human connection matters more than digital interference.
Jennifer Bouyan Han, MFA
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Her work often features figures of diverse cultural identities, connected by elements like vibrant color and symbolic wire “hair”, a recurring motif that evokes both connection and entanglement through technology.
Han’s artwork is both deeply personal and universally relatable. Her installations and mixed-media pieces reflect a childhood shaped by screens and machines, where moments of intimacy were often mediated, or interrupted, by technology. The tension between memory and machinery, warmth and artificiality, surfaces repeatedly in her work.
“I want people to see the beauty in complexity — in mixed families, in tangled wires, in the moments we lose to technology and the ones we still manage to hold on to.”
By incorporating Chinese cultural symbols, such as the Meiping vase, and layering them with contemporary digital references, Han bridges tradition and futurism. Her art becomes a space for questioning the ways technology redefines relationships, memory, and even the self.
At its core, Han’s practice invites viewers to reflect on their own stories: the ways they connect, remember, and evolve in an increasingly digital world.
Interviews are currently in progress, please check back soon!