Atelier Duyi Han for Aesthetic Research
Duyi Han (韩笃一, 1994) is an artist and designer specializing in aesthetic research and production. Working on the edge between art and design, Duyi Han’s practice expands in sculpture, furniture, scenography, and digital art.
Duyi Han studied architecture (B. Arch, 2019) at Cornell University in New York and worked at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. Duyi Han produces work by himself as an artist and directs projects for clients across Asia, Europe, and the US on different scales, sometimes with executive collaborators.
Since 2019, Duyi Han’s work has been recognized by multidisciplinary awards and media platforms in more than 20 languages, including the Dezeen Award, Créateurs Design Award, AZ Award, Architizer A+ Award, ADC Award; Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Vogue, CNN, Vice, and US National Academy of Sciences. His work Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment is named among the 12 best installations at Milan Design Week by Architectural Digest. He sold many prints for The Saints Wear White and donated the profit to WHO to combat Covid-19. Duyi Han’s work has been exhibited at Salon 94 Design, Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), Milan Design Week (Alcova), Asia Now (Paris), World Trade Center (New York), Venice Design Biennial, European Cultural Centre (Venice), Vienna Design Week, Lake Como Design Festival, the metaverse, etc. Duyi Han has served as a judge at international design competitions and as an advisor at leading art and design schools.
Approach
In the mind of creating a holistic aesthetic experience, Duyi Han designs objects and environments as “neuroaesthetic prescriptions”. Duyi Han researches on art history and studies the evolution and mutation of aesthetics and form and how this relates to human emotion, zeitgeist, and mechanisms of the universe. Influenced by East Asian philosophies such as Taoism and contemporary pharmaceutical practices, Duyi Han’s approach is formless itself but manifests into specific appearances as he “projects” the human mind and its values and “prescribes” specific visual content to evoke feelings in the individual and collective. Drawing references from diverse cultural contexts in different temporalities, he makes unusual blends of signifiers in his "neuroaesthetic prescriptions".
Contact
atelier@duyihan.com
Instagram: @duyi.han
Recognitions
Duyi Han’s work is in the permanent collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
Duyi Han has appeared or been featured on: Forbes, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Vice, Adobe, Issues in Science and Technology (American National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), Architectural Digest, Marie Claire, Vogue, Elle Decor, Archdaily, Dezeen, Designboom (1, 2, 3), Yatzer, L’Officiel, STIRworld, Modern Weekly 周末画报 (China), Hypebeast, Say Hi To Atlas, The Steidz Magazine, Azure Magazine, Bienal São Paulo, Art Tribune, Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil), Courrier International (France), 1st Look (South Korea), Phillipp (France), Creapills (France), Qiio Magazin (Germany), The National UAE, The Indian Express, Le Quotidien de l'Art, iFeng (China), Xinpianchang (China), Urban China 城市中国, among others, in more than 20 languages. Duyi Han is included in DesignIntelligence’s Managing Principal and Gensler’s former Managing Principal Ken Sander’s 2022 book Voices of Design Leadership as a special story.
Winner, Créateurs Design Awards (Best Collection), Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment, 2023; Nominee, Anteprima x CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize (Mill 6 Centre for Heritage, Art, and Textile, Hong Kong), 2023; Nominee, Dangxia Young Artist Award, 2023; Finalist, AZ Awards (Temporary and Experiential Installations), Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment, 2022; Special Mention, Architizer A+ Awards 2022; Finalist, Baidu Xirang/Fengyuzhu Metaverse Art Museum competition, 2022; Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize, 2022; Finalist, Architizer A+ Awards 2021 (Unbuilt Cultural), The Saints Wear White; Longlisted, Dezeen Awards, 2021 (Architecture Video) & 2022 (Apartment Interior), Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment; Bronze, A’ Design Award, 2021, The Saints Wear White; Shortlisted, ADC Awards, 2021, Different Tendencies: Italian Design 1960 – 1980; Awardee, Cornell Council for the Arts Grant, The Open Room, 2019.
Exhibitions
2024, “Body Objects,” group exhibition, Room 57 Gallery, New York. 2024, Salon 94 Design, FOG Design + Art, San Francisco. 2023, Our Superior Algorithm, Hatch, Asia Now, Paris. 2023, “流光 Projection,” group exhibition, Sifang Art Museum 四方当代美术馆, Nanjing, China. 2023, “Time Space Existence,” Architectural Biennial, European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy. 2023, “Auto-Exotic,” Venice Design Biennial, Italy. 2023, Collectible Fair (Curated Section), Brussels, Belgium. “Heat & Pressure of Time 时间的温压,” group show, Tiaohai Village 跳海Village, Beijing. 2023, “Benediction,” group show, Friends Artspace, Arlington, Virginia, USA. 2022, “Neo-Nomadism,” Lake Como Design Festival, Como, Italy. 2022, “Fokus/Ornament,” Vienna Design Week, Austria. 2022, Alcova 2022/ “Curated by Alcova,” Milan Design Week, Italy. 2022, “The Gallery/Supergroup 2.5” by The Attico & Superhouse, Milan Design Week, Italy. 2022, “Post-Sinofuturim/Beyond Raw 后中华未来主义/人造原生,” group exhibition, Meta ZiWU/Baidu Xirang 百度希壤Meta誌屋 (metaverse). 2021, “Remixing Dream 梦境重混,” group exhibition, Sifang Art Museum 四方当代美术馆, Nanjing, China. 2020, Inside~Out Show, group exhibition, online (New York). 2019, Blanc Art Show, group exhibition, New York, USA. 2019, “Change Always: Duyi Han on Mutant Forms,” solo exhibition, New York, USA
See Also
Toward a New Aesthetics (2023 Architecture Biennial, Venice)