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Artist Biography
American sculptor David Han was born in Beijing, China. His mother is a artist whose paintings are widely collected and his father is an engineer who worked for many years in China’s largest iron factory. He credits his parents for giving him the heart of an artist and the mind of an engineer.
Under his mother’s guidance, David began his formal training in art at the age of 9, and continued until the age of 20 when he immigrated to the U.S. Over the next 14 years, he pursued a career in graphic and industrial design, and 3D illustration.
In 2010 David finished his first sheet metal sculpture. Drawing on his many years of formal artistic training and his multi-faceted design experience he began developing a totally unique style of sculptural expression. Since 2014 David has devoted himself exclusively to his sculpture art. He resides in San Jose, CA.
Awards and Commission
Art Fusion Galleries 4TH Annual International FINE ARTS Competition
1ST place
AATSRC Public Project
David has received a new commission from ARTS RWC (Aligning Art & Revitalization Together for Economic Success in Redwood City) for water from sculpture project, and the sculpture will be installed in June of 2016.
Winner in the 2015 American Art Awards
Category 50. SCULPTURE – NON-REPRESENTATIONAL
4th Place "Untitled #5” and 5th Place "Untitled #8”
Artist Statement
"I create sculptures that are visually arresting and exciting; that free the imagination to look forward to some fantastic future or back to some mythical time in the past. Each of my sculptures is a time machine that takes you away from reality...
I like to work with scrap metal and to unlock the potential that I see there. I rarely use machine made elements. I shape and polish every piece of metal by hand, influenced by the forms and patterns found in nature, but also by automobiles, motorcycles, aircraft and all things aerodynamic. That’s why each of my sculptures looks so alive...
I don’t like to title my work and prefer to let admirers choose their own names for each of my sculptures. Whatever happens between the artwork and observer belongs to them only. The artwork itself is a window, a path to the freedom of imagination."
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