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Artist Bio

Nayeon Han is a South Korean artist based in Seoul and London who expands her artmaking by finding a way to transcend her artform from textile design into fine art. Nayeon holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies with first-class honors from Yonsei University in South Korea, and she graduated with a master’s degree in textiles at the Royal College of Art. She has been awarded the Deputy Vice Chancellor’s International Bursary at the Royal College of Art.

Her works are primarily based on her own experiences and storytelling. Through her work, she explores the nature of memories and remembers them by reinterpreting them creatively. She derives her work from specific moments in her life because she believes those were the source of pure inspiration. Her practice involves the processes of layering, collaging, and accumulation because they are like the transient and cumulative properties of memories.

Education

2023 - 2024

MA Royal College of Art

Textile

2013 - 2016

BA Yonsei University
International Studies (First Class Honor)

Publish / Award

January 2026

Published in

Art World News

October 2025

Published in

Korea-Greece Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition Catalogue

 

October 2025

Published in

Korea Art News

May 2025

Interviewed with

The Squares Gallery

March 2025

Published in

Athinorama

March 2025

Published in

Fad Magazine

March 2025

Published in
Something Curated Magazine

November 2024

Interviewed with

Insistrum

July 2024

Published in

Textile Festival Catalogue

May 2024

Published in

Artist Talk Magazine #31

March 2023

The Deputy Vice Chancellor’s International Bursary,

Royal College of Art

August 2016

UIC Creative Writing Certificate,

Yonsei University

February 2015

Yonsei 130th Anniversary Essay Excellence Award,

Yonsei University

 

August 2012

Certificate of Award for EXPO 2012 UNESCO Essay Contest,

UNESCO

Exhibition

January 2026

MOMENT OF IGNITION

Maru Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

October 2025

REVEAL

Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

May 2025 

BEYOND BOUNDARIES 

The Squares Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 

March 2025

WASTELAND TO WONDERLAND:

ART IN THE AGE OF SUSTAINABILITY

T.A.F., Athens, Greece 

March 2025

BLOOMING ON PAPER

Somerset House, London, UK

October 2024

FOCUS ART FAIR LONDON 2024

Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 

September 2024

METAMORPHOSIS: MORROW IN THE WORKS

50 De Beauvoir Cres, London, UK​

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July 2024

INTERROGATING THE UNSEEN

RCA Battersea, London, UK

July 2024

ELEPHANT IN THE SAFE?

Asylum Chapel, London, UK​

June 2024

ECHOES OF ENTANGLEMENT

Lart, London, UK

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May 2024

TEXTILES IN THE MAKING

Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, London, UK​

April 2024

WE ARE ROOTING FOR YOU

Hockney Gallery, London, UK​

March 2024

BODY AS VESSEL

Four Corners, London, UK

February 2024

SB ART

SB Art Gallery, London, UK

January 2024

GRADIENT

The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK

Artist Statement

Through her work, Nayeon revisits her memories, transforms them into something tangible, and reinterprets them, often in the form of a sculpture or installation. She recreates the objects from her memories using various materials, mainly organza and cotton fabric, as an act of memorialization and imaginative transformation. She also explores the fleeting nature of memories by integrating form and content through her creative practice. 

She is especially interested in ‘surreally’ excavating her experience by distorting the shapes and colors. The vibrant colors she uses deliver the sense of playfulness that she has felt in those specific moments. Although she visualizes her artwork from her memories, they are mostly open-ended for the viewers. Her aim is to provide viewers with comfort while reminding them of their own memories. 

Nayeon asks the question, “What is the value of revisiting one’s memories and reinterpreting them?” She believes that personal memories, whether good or bad, can be a driving force for growth if we reinterpret and remember them as a necessary nutrient for each of us living in the present. She hopes that her works will serve as an opportunity for the viewers to look back on their memories and provide a positive impetus to their daily lives.​ One step further, Nayeon would also like to reveal the dynamism lying at the heart of the human experience, as we are all entangled with the external world and interact with it every moment.

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