BIO
Statement
Work
Hanzi He/何韩子 (b. 2001, China) is an artist who received her MA in Print from the Royal College of Art, London in 2026, and her BA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2025.
Her practice is rooted in the common and the daily — the water stain left on a table, the residue on a plate after a meal, the mark a piece of tape leaves on a wall when peeled away. Working across installation, sculpture, and printmaking, she is drawn to traces left after contact: those things that remain after something has happened, easily overlooked, hard to preserve.
This understanding came gradually, through accumulation. A photograph found online — a chair dragged across a floor, leaving marks of different depths, each one a different moment in time — first made her recognise what she had always been drawn to. Then came the repeated act: returning to the same sink every week, the same worktop, going back to the same surfaces. And through her work Bread Letters, Imprint, a turning point: when an earlier version was deinstalled, the bread letters pulled the plaster away with them, leaving only an imprint on the wall. The photographs were lost when her phone was stolen. But the impression remained — and she realised that the impression itself could be the work. These moments did not arrive separately. They accumulated, until she knew.
Alongside her studio practice, she has worked in community and public contexts. In 2023, she co-led Nyon Ta Workshop in Singapore, an immersive workshop exploring the history and craft of Peranakan tiles along Joo Chiat Road. In 2024, she collaborated with artists in China on participatory events for families centred around traditional festivals.
Exhibition
- 2023 Deciphering Realms, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
- 2024 It‘s About Time, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
- 2024 teetering, Alliance Française de Singapore, Singapore
- 2025 You‘ll Flutter The Dovecotes! & Don’t Judge The Pigeon‘s Nest, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
- 2025 Meal Deal, Filet Space, London, UK
- 2026 Following Fallowing, Hangar Gallery, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London, UK
- 2026 Secondary, Royal College of Art, London, UK