Curator Meg Onli On How This Year’s Whitney Biennial Came Together
"Something that drove our curating was thinking about what artists of marginalized identities are expected to create."
Jes Fan
Jes Fan is a contemporary sculptor and visual artist whose works challenge the boundaries of biology, identity, and race. Born in Canada and raised in Hong Kong, Fan's unique multicultural background informs much of their art, particularly regarding notions of otherness and the fluidity of bodily identity. Often employing materials like silicone, pigments, and even human hormones, Fan's installations and sculptures blur the lines between organic and synthetic, positing thought-provoking questions about what constitutes the self. Their work has been showcased in numerous exhibitions and institutions around the world, highlighting the artist's rising prominence in the global art scene.
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On View Now: Two Shows on Domesticity and the Housing Crisis
Two exhibitions in Philadelphia and Ridgefield, Connecticut consider what it means to have a home in today’s world.
At Brooklyn’s Urban Glass, Artists Smash Symbolic Ceilings
A group show at Brooklyn's Urban Glass probes the metaphor of a glass ceiling using the fragile, yet malleable, material.
