Han Qin Portrait by Piconic Pictures
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📣 October 7, 2026 — January 5, 2027 — Navigation: Kellenberg Gallery, Molloy University.
Curated by Dr. Hwa Young Caruso, Navigation is an invitational group exhibition highlighting minority artists from first- and second-generation immigrant families. The exhibition explores identity, belonging, and assimilation in American society. Presented in conjunction with Molloy University’s 2026 Opening Convocation, it connects with the Common Read selection, Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, a novel about an undocumented Latina immigrant from Ecuador.
Opening Reception & Artist Talk :Thursday, 12:30 pm, Oct 15, 2026
Venue: Kellenberg Gallery, Molloy University, 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY 11571.
Venue: Kellenberg Gallery, Molloy University, 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY 11571.
📣 October 22, 2026, 6 – 7 pm, The Movement Lab at Barnard College, New York.
Room is a multimedia solo dance performance inspired by poems carved on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station by immigrants detained between 1910 and 1940. Within a translucent cube, motion-responsive projections interact with the dancer’s movements, creating a dialogue with this history. The work explores how movement and technology can help us encounter the past with openness and humility.
📣 October 24 – December 13, 2026; The Art of Communication, EEAC Andy Tarshis Fine Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24, 2026, 4 – 7 PM
48 W. Main Street, Riverhead, NY
48 W. Main Street, Riverhead, NY
The Art of Communication: Technical and Conceptual Explorations in Printmaking brings together works exploring the technical and conceptual possibilities of printmaking. Curated by Lorena Salcedo-Watson and Glynis Berry, the exhibition includes work by Han Qin and considers printmaking as a medium for artistic expression and communication.
📣 September 20 – December 20, 2026, Between Elsewheres: FICS Art Center, Shanghai
Between Elsewheres: Nature, Memory and Identity Across Cultures brings together artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Han Qin, to explore identity, cultural memory, and belonging through painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and mixed media. Set within Shanghai’s historic Xinhua Road neighborhood, the exhibition creates a space for dialogue across cultures, connecting personal experiences with shared imaginings of nature, place, and coexistence.
Artist Talk: Nov 23-24, 2016
FICS Art Center, FICS Xinhua 365 Creative Park, Lane 365, Xinhua Road, Changning District, Shanghai, China.
FICS Art Center, FICS Xinhua 365 Creative Park, Lane 365, Xinhua Road, Changning District, Shanghai, China.
Narrative Bio
Han Qin (韩沁) is a visual artist, researcher. Her work transforms historical archives and scientific inquiry into experiential visual systems, across printmaking, painting, digital media, and public installation. Her work examines how perception, memory, and migration shape individual and collective identities.
Born in Hangzhou, China, she lives and works in Long Island, New York. Han holds B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Printmaking from the China Academy of Art and an M.F.A. in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute. She is a Chancellor’s Award adjunct professor at Stony Brook University.
Han founded Contemporary Art Practice Lab (CAPL), an interdisciplinary platform that bridges artistic practice, public engagement, and institutional collaboration. Through CAPL, artwork builds portals for physical–digital Integration, creates spatial memory & cultural archives, reveals invisible knowledge & sensory experience.
Her current art projects extend beyond exhibition formats, engaging history, communities, and science contexts as active sites of research and participation. Her work has been presented at institutions in the US and Asia, including Harvard University, Pollock-Krasner House, the Tesla Science Center, the Barnard College, the Heckscher Museum of Art, Nassau County Museum and Beijing Today’s Museum. Her projects have been supported by NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts), NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), Swatch Art Foundation, etc.
Representation: FOU Gallery
General inquire: Studio@artpracticelab.net
Research and workshops: RnD@artpracticelab.net
Creating and Collaboration inquiries: HQ@artpracticelab.net
Research and workshops: RnD@artpracticelab.net
Creating and Collaboration inquiries: HQ@artpracticelab.net
Instagram: @hanqinart