Biography
Shao Fan, Hao (art name): Yu Han. Shao Fan was born in 1964 to a renowned family of artists in Beijing, where he has lived ever since. He studied painting with his mother and father from a young age. For the past few decades, his artistic practice has covered and spanned various mediums including ink on rice paper, oil on canvas, sculpture, garden design and architecture, exploring the transformation of various materials in different times, spaces, and states of consciousness,
Shao Fan’s recent solo exhibitions include In the Name of the Rabbit, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, China, 2023; Shao Fan: Between the Truth and Illusion, Het Noordbrabants Museum, HT’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2020; YOU, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany, 2018; YOU, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China, 2018.
Shao Fan has participated in numerous group exhibitions including: Hill of the Madman, Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai, China, 2022; M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China, 2021; Ad-Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones, Ad-Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, 2021; Karneval der Tiere, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2018; Chinese Whispers, Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, 2016; A New Dynasty – Created in China, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2015; China 8, Museum Folkwang Essen, Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Kunstmuseum, Gelsenkirchen, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Germany, 2015; “Secret Signs” Chinese contemporary calligraphy exhibition, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2014; De la Chine aux Arts Decortifs, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, 2014; Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2013; Confronting Anitya – Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy; Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany, 2013; Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia, 2012; The 4 th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China, 2012; China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2008; Chinese Gardens for Living – Illusion into Reality, Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 2008.
He is the gold medal winner of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK (2008).
