Uri Han explores the world of disappearing objects through media such as video, photography, books, and installations, and examines how we perceive such objects and their diversity. Focusing on the relationships between image and language, fiction and truth, the artist traces what makes objects old and new, discarded or in use, hidden and revealed, and attempts to see the everyday world of now. Recently, Han has become interested in the relationships surrounding 16mm film, which is on the verge of disappearing, and its temporality. Supposing the dichotomous notions of digital and analog media are dominant, the artist believes that by understanding the media through the interactions it generates rather than by examining the media itself, one can better understand what current media technology does and become able to face a certain possibility that can renew pre-existing perceptions of linear temporality. Using well-known tales and myths, Han seeks to unravel stories about such relationships in the form of allegories.
Han’s most recent solo exhibitions are Loop: The Tail That Wags the Dog (Amado Art Space, 2024) and Thread and Rewinder (BOAN1942, 2022). She has also shown works at Random Access project 4.0 (Nam June Paik Art Center, 2025), It was the way of walking through narrative (Frieze Film 2023 × BOAN1942, 2023), and Images (Hite Collection, 2023) among others. She has been selected as a Next Generation Artist at the Korea Academy of Arts and Creativity (Arts Council Korea, 2021) and a resident artist at the MMCA Goyang Residency in 2023.
Education
2017 M.F.A. in Painting, EWHA Womans University, Seoul, KR
2012 B.F.A. in Painting and Print Making, EWHA Womans University, Seoul, KR
Solo Exhibition
2024 Loop: The Tail Wagging the Dog, Seoul, KR
2022 Thread and Rewinder, BOAN1942, Seoul, KR
2020 Vague Fata Morgana, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, KR
2017 REBOOT, Slow Slow Quick Quick, Seoul, KR
Group Exhibition & Screening
2025 Random Access Project 4.0, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, KR
2024 Nam June Paik, Sylbee Kim, Yaloo, Han Uri: Positive Feedback, Gallery BHAK, Seoul, KR
2023 Frieze Film 2023 It was the way of walking through narrative, BOAN1942, Seoul, KR
2023 The Images, Hite collection, Seoul, KR
2023 MMCA Residency Goyang x Film & Video, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2022 a thin layer, a silver particle.Alterside, Seoul, KR
2022 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (NeMaf2022), Seoul, KR
2022 Thin and Deep, XYZ SEOUL, Seoul, KR
2022 The missing Duduri, TINC, Seoul, KR
2021 SIFF - Switzerland International Film Festival, Foreign Films, Aubonne, CH
2021 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Poetic and Short film, Llandeilo, UK
2021 Nine Blinks, Space Shift, Seoul, KR
2020 It Never Disappears, 17717, Seoul, KR
2019 OPEN CODE, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, KR
2018 FUTURE CITY: METROPOLIS re-IMAGINED, American Institute of Architects San Francisco, San Francisco, US
2018 Intermission, Plan B PROJECT SPACE, Seoul, KR
2017 I love you I love you not, Hite collection, Seoul, KR
2017 DOVE AUDIO & VIDEO SHOWCASE, Sewoon Plaza, Seoul, KR
2016 New drawing project, Chang Ucchin Museum of Art Yangju City, Yangju, KR
Residency
2023 MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, KR
2020-2019 Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, KR
Awards & Funding
2024 Arts Support Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2023 Research Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2022 Arts Support Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2021 Next Generation Artist of the Korean Academy of Art Creation at the ARKO Art Center, Arts Council Korea, Naju, KR
2020 Support for New Art, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, KR
2018 Small Selection, Seoul Cultural Foundation, Seoul, KR
2017 first artistic visual art, Seoul Culture Foundation, Seoul, KR
2016 New drawing project, Chang Ucchin Museum of Art Yangju City, Yangju, KR
Collection
MMCA Government Art Bank
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Chang Ucchin Museum of Art Yangju City
