Ren Han
Painting + Drawing
Abstract
As an interdisciplinary process-based artist, I create objects, drawings, weavings, and installations from a wide variety of materials that are informed by nature, memory/trauma, sound, tactility, and physical/metaphorical tension. My discipline in textiles melds with my experience in natural dyes, painting, and drawing to create works that are in constant dialogue with each other. I am drawn to meticulous, tactile techniques such as spinning my own fiber to incorporate into large, body-sized woven paintings that call to themes of cloaking, shielding, and an embodied experience of making. I am currently weaving, rug tufting, and drawing a multitude of objects that embrace a similar theme of metamorphosis, utilizing the imagery of the unfurling and wetness of new moth and butterfly wings. A variety of scientific, logical methods inform my learning of new mediums through which to express these in-depth concepts.
A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Lepidoptera: Ray, 2024. Acrylic yarn on monkscloth, wire, 63 x57”.
Photo: Jacob Chung.

A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Lepidoptera: Strix, 2024. Acrylic, wool, silk yarn on monkscloth, wire, 53 x 55”. Photo: Jacob Chung.

A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Encircling I & II, 2024. Wool, steel, silk, 2024, 24” diameter. Photo: Jacob Chung.
A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Lepidoptera: Cleave, 2024. Wool yarn on monkscloth, wire, 33 x 55”.
Photo: Jacob Chung
A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Field Notes I, 2024. Wool, silk roving, yarn on monkscloth, 3 x 8". Photo: Jacob Chung.

A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Velvet Aviation, 2024. Wool, silk, handmade felt, 5 x 8” (left) 6 x 9” (right). Photo: Jacob Chung

A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Lepidoptera: Cicada, 2024. Wool, silk yarn on monkscloth, monofilament, 47 x 55”. Photo: Jacob Chung

A sketchy figure lounged with their legs in front of them and feet touching.
Ren Han, Field Notes II, 2024. Wool, silk roving, yarn on monkscloth, 3 x 8'. Photo: Jacob Chung.
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Committee
Ann Gale, Chair
Zhi Lin
Education
MFA, Drawing + Painting, University of Washington, 2024

BA, Studio Art, University of Maryland, 2022

BA, Psychology, University of Maryland, 2022
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Awards + Accomplishments
2023, Gonzales Graduate Student Scholarship Recipient
2022, 2nd place, Colonel Wharton Award
2022, 2nd place, 3d Category-Sadat Art for Peace
2021-2022, Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship (CAPA)
2020, College Park Scholars Program Citation—Arts
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