Han Gao (b. 1998, Hunan, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, sound designer and emerging researcher working across sound, moving image, performance and writing.
Her work explores listening as an artistic and social practice, examining how sound, movement and embodied experience shape memory, perception and human relationships. She works with field recording, spoken word, participatory events and fragmentary notes, using listening to explore the subtle relationships between bodies, places and lived experience.
Rather than treating sound as representation, Han approaches it as a site of exchange and knowledge production. She creates temporary situations in which presence and connection can unfold, allowing listening to become a shared experience rather than a means of simply recording or preserving.
Growing up within a patriarchal family continues to inform Han’s inquiry into inherited narratives, vulnerability and the politics of voice. While rooted in personal experience, her work moves beyond autobiography to consider how intimate experiences resonate across wider cultural contexts. Through poetic documentation, she traces how partial memories, everyday encounters and shifting environments can be held, reimagined and transformed.
Alongside her individual practice, Han founded chimimora, an interdisciplinary platform for artistic research, public listening and cross-cultural collaboration. Through screenings, performances, workshops and experimental gatherings, Chimimora functions as an evolving site for collective inquiry into migration, memory and social imagination.
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EDUCATION
MA Filmmaking (Sound Recording, Post-Production & Design), Goldsmiths College | 2024 – 2025
BA Fine Art (with first honours), Goldsmiths College | 2020 – 2023
WORK EXPERIENCE
Founder & Curator | Chimimora, London | 2023 – Present
Facilitate interdisciplinary events, workshops, and artist-led gatherings exploring art, migration, identity, and collective creativity.
Sound Recordist & Designer | Freelance, London | 2023 – Present
Junior Fellow | Department of Art, Goldsmiths College, London| 2023 – 2024
Retail work experience in the fashion luxury industry | London | 2023
Customer service | Soho House, London | 2021-2022
Marketing & Promotion / Vintage Studio Owner / Blogger | Chongqing, Changsha & Shanghai, China | 2018–2020
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2026
I Placed my Eyes, Inside my Palms｜Hartslane Gallery, London | Mar 2026 – Group exhibition with self-published zine and collection of watercolour, collage
2025
Bread as Story | San Mei Gallery, London | Apr 2025 – Group exhibition with performance and installation exploring addiction and ritual
Dominion | Safehouse, London | Mar 2025 – Experimental film addressing embodied memory
On the Verge / On the Cusp | The Koppel Project, London | Feb 2025 – Interactive installation and performance
2024
You Slap on My Face (Solo) | 23 Bar & Gallery, Bangkok | Nov 2024 – International solo exhibition combining live performance, video, and printed matter
Awakening | Safehouse, London | Sep 2024 – Video installation with performance
Rage | Off the Cuff, London | Jul 2024 – Sound performance and printed work
The Storm | SET Vault, London | May 2024 – Film screening
Born Out Upside Down | AMP Gallery, London | Mar 2024 – Performance work Write me an email
2023
Uncaging | Bar Bario, Amsterdam | Nov 2023 – Video installation Daughter
Baby Teeth | Bermondsey Project Space, London | Nov 2023 – Installation Poem 2 and film
Goldsmiths BA Fine Art Degree Show | London | Jun 2023 – Installations including Daughter and She wants me to have a baby, As we move forward
London Look | HFBK Hamburg | Apr 2023 – Exchange programme exhibition
2020 – 2022
寶成 | The Art Village, Rotorua, New Zealand | Jan 2022 | Screening
大老黑 | Private Villa, Shanghai | Jun 2020 | Group exhibition
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