Jennifer Boyuan Han
What Remains?, 2025
Chinese ink, modeling paste,
gloss gel, acrylic on canvas
20 x 20 inches
$3,000
C-lective Curator’s Cut
What Remains? captures our attention with its vibrant palette and geometric backdrop, echoing the fast-paced, digital world that increasingly shapes how we experience culture. But at its center, a traditional Ming porcelain vase tips and shatters—a powerful symbol of Jennifer's exploration of identity, heritage, and the impact of Westernization on Chinese culture. Rather than mourning the past, Han asks a more nuanced question: what fragments of tradition endure as cultures evolve? The broken vessel becomes both loss and possibility, inviting us to consider how history, technology, and globalization continually reshape not only cultural identity, but our understanding of ourselves.
We Love Jennifer. She is a Chinese-born, California-based multimedia artist who explores the intersections of identity, family, culture, and technology. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a multicultural, non-traditional family, Han challenges conventional definitions of family and belonging. She recently earned her Masters of Fine Art at California College of the Arts.
Jennifer Boyuan Han
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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, California College of the Arts, December 2018
Master of Fine Arts in Painting, California College of the Arts, June 2026
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Special Merit Award, “All‑Women” Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Art Gallery (2018)
All‑College Honor, California College of the Arts (2018)
1st Place, Pam June Naik Video Art Festival, Washington, D.C. (2016)
Founder of Wow Art Studio, Nanjing, China
Member, Association of Chinese Young Artists, Nanjing, China
Various solo and ground exhibitions in China, Rome, and the United States.
“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. 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!