Young Sun Han (he/him, they/them) is a visual artist, lecturer, and curator who articulates human stories through intersecting media: photography, moving image, durational performance, rituals, installation, and found objects. Their work aims to reveal how individuals and communities negotiate and adapt to cultural forces in order to locate their sense of place within society and history. Projects also arise out of happenstance experiences by responding to these events through collecting, cataloging, and transposing related imagery and materials. Han's interdisciplinary practice is borne out of experimentations with different modes of photography, historical research, and gestures of exchange.
 
Han is an American citizen of Korean heritage and a New Zealand permanent resident. They are based in Brooklyn, NY and teach at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Han appears in a leading role in the feature film, "The Last City," directed by Heinz Emigholz which premiered at the Berlinale 2020. Recent residencies include: Materia Abierta, Mexico City, 2019 and the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin, 2018. They received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and further studies include: Goldsmiths, University of London and the Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Cologne, Germany–the latter as a fellowship recipient of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange.
 
Han's work has been exhibited in many group shows including: David Zwirner (NY), Knockdown Center (NY), Printed Matter Inc. (NY), LMAK books+design (NY), Jean Albano Gallery (Chicago), Zolla/Lieberman (Chicago), Independent Brussels, the Anti-Art Fair London, 4A Centre of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia), University of Sydney, the Suter Contemporary Art Biennial (Nelson, NZ), The Dowse Art Museum (Lower Hutt, NZ), Sanderson Contemporary Art (Auckland, NZ).

(Biography: artist's website.)