Jeewon Han is an artist and painter (b. Seoul, South Korea) based in Chicago, IL. Her practice explores themes of memory, loss and longing in shaping identity. 

I am intrigued by zones of uncertainty where change and passage is possible. I enjoy playing with the uncanny, distorting recognizable substances into vivid realms to give my objects and figures their own narrative and agency throughout my work. My practice seeks to portray the nuances of loss within the subconscious and how this shapes new ways of being, both in systemic contexts and what I see in everyday life.

Symbols are an important anchor in my practice as I experiment with assembling incompatible elements into a new whole. Informed by my experience as a Korean immigrant, these interstitial spaces become sites of communication and contact, where my imagery aims to not only celebrate, but also subvert such intersections.