About
卜生，常驻上海，策展人、撰稿人、译者。长期为《艺术界 LEAP》《ArtReview》《frieze》《艺术当代》《周末画报》等媒体撰写展评及研究专题。在2015-2020年间，担任当代艺术非营利机构 Arthub 的展览经理和制作人。2021年始，继续以独立策展人和艺评人的身份策划、评论展览。
著有酷儿短篇小说《切片》(2016, 豆瓣出版)。
作为摄影师的他通过图像探索他与下沉世界和漂流残骸之间的关系。
Paul Han is a curator, writer, and translator based in Shanghai. Han regularly writes art critique and featured topics in Chinese and English for multiple art media, including LEAP, ArtReview, frieze, Art China, iWeekly, etc. From 2015-2020, He worked at not-for-profit art organisation Arthub as exhibition manager and producer. Since 2021, he freelances as a curator and arti critic.
In 2016, Han published his queer romance Slice by Douban.
As a photographer, Paul Han explores his relationship with the sinking world and the floating debris.
CV
Publications
2024 Ghosts of My Life, Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures, Mark Fisher, Chinese version (in the making)
Translator, Neo Cognito Publisher
2023 Closing Ceremony issue #3, Smile
Editor/translator, SamePaper
2023 Basic Archive of Museology in Meiji Era, Project by Hunan Provincial Museum
Researcher, Shaanxi People Publisher
2020 A Night to Remember, photography zine, self publish, printed in Shanghai
2019 NOWNESS EXPERIMENTS: Mesh, curatorial writing, on the occassion of the exhibition at chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai.
2019 Closing Ceremony issue #2, Americano, contributing editor/translator, published by SamePaper.
2019 Bird Cage A Temporary Shelter, on the occassion of Zhang Enli’s exhibition at the Galleria Borghese, organisational assistance, published by Corraini.
2018 Arthub from China to a Global Network 2008-2018, data collecting and classifying, published by Mousse.
2018 Aurora Museum and Arthub, Contemporary Art within a Historical Collection, data collecting and classifying, published by Mousse.
2016 Slice, author, published by Douban.
Exhibition/pop-up event
2023 Non-Places?, Anthony Reed and Philip Reed, curator, ArtWhy Gallery, Shanghai
2023 Per-Form, group exhibition, curator, BROWNIE Project x Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Shanghai
2021 Another, Farther, Lyu Yanxiang solo exhibition, academic support, Art Why Gallery, Shanghai
2021 The Sequel of Light, group exhibition, academic support, organised by Shanghai Film Studio, at Buchan Mansion, Shanghai
2021 Sissel Tolaas solo exhibition, Jiangsu Garden Expo, Nanjing
2021 Errors, Limitation, and Malfunction, Emilio Vavarella, exhibition coordinator with Chao Jiaxing, by Italian Council and Ramdom, showed at Modern Art Base, Shanghai
2020 Warm Core, curator, solo pop-up exhibition with Joy Island x HARMAY, Beijing
2020 NOWNESS EXPERIMENTS, curator, Modern Art Base, Shanghai
2020 化身/Double, Anqi Li solo exhibition, curator, Camus Space, Shanghai
2019 NOWNESS EXPERIMENTS Mesh, curatorial writing, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai.
2019 Rear Windows, Li Qing solo exhibition, interview/text with NOWNESS, Prada Rongzhai, Shanghai
2019 Third Realm, exhibition content organiser, MoCP, Chicago.
2019 Closing Ceremony issue #2, exhibition/book launch, curator/exhibition design, BANK Mabsociety, Shanghai.
2019 What was I, Goshka Macuga solo exhibition, interview/text with NOWNESS, Prada Rongzhai, Shanghai
2019 Bird Cage A Temporary Shelter, Galleria Borghese, Rome
2018 NOWNESS EXPERIMENTS: Naturalunnatural, exhibition, execution, Tank Shanghai.
2017 Fantasy Access Code, exhibition execution, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai.
2017 BLAST!, exhibition execution, Shanghai Himalaya Centre, Shanghai.
2016 Art In The City, exhibition executive, Shanghai.
2016-2020 Exhibition on the Table special project, curator, Shanghai.