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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.