Han Xiao

I was born in China in 1982. Currently living in Spain(2021).
I studied in the Academy of Art & Design of Tsinghua University. After graduation(2005), I worked as a design assistant in a design group and later taught in a high school. During the teaching period, I was inspired to pick up the brush for the first time.
June 14, 2009 Debut was inspired and affirmed by a letter from Charles Saatchi. In 2014, i was discovered by Rebecca Wilson, chief curator and art development director of the American art platform "Saatchiart".
More than 100 works have been widely collected by collectors in the United States, Taiwan, Germany, Spain, Greece, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, Nigeria, and Brazil.
＂...Her portraits possess an innate sense of loneliness and anxiety, and are reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s paintings. She deliberately blurs out the faces of her subjects and makes it difficult to discern any identifiable features. Her energetic and highly impastoed brush strokes and rich color palette of vibrant blues, ochres, greens, and pinks illuminate her canvases and beg the viewer to linger. ＂
——Kat Henning （Curator of Saatchi Art）
The main themes I pursue include conflicts in life, confrontations with strange shapes in the so...

Graduated 2005 Tsinghua University, Environmental Art Design

2014
Making faces(06.23);
One to watch(08.27)
New Portraits Collection(09.29);
2015 Saatchi Art calendar(10.01);
About a face(11.25)
the round-up of some of the most exciting works on Saatchi Art this year(12.09);
Best of 2014(12.10)
2015
Showdown Top300 (01.14)
Advanced to the Saatchi Art Showdown and are among the Top30 artists(02.06);
'Spotlight on Asia'; 'Spotlight on China(05.11);
chosen in Saatchi Art first ever printed catalogue(09.30).
2016
A day in the life(02)
20 Emerging artists collection on Saatchi Art's homepage(06.28)