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Han Dao '26
Amid noise and glitches, serenity emerges as data flows, lines converge, existing and dissipating simultaneously.
Link to Website
2024
Video Art (with sound)
By Han Dao '26
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
My IUD made me bleed for 8 months straight, gave me terrible cramps, and made me depressed. After finally getting it removed, I made art with it.
2023
Oil paint, acrylic paint, and IUD on wood panel
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
Metamorphosis explores queerness as a transformation, as more than just a sexual identity. See http://stanfordmint.com/metamorphosis/ for full article
2018
Studio photography
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
BEAM Stanford-related photos
Digital photographs
I created a visual representation of the concept of ‘truth’ in a minimalistic style represented by the light and woman’s bare shoulders.
Acrylic paint on canvas
This piece grapples with the difficulty of forgiveness. Opposing forces compete: luminosity and shadow, serenity and grief, redemption and regression.
2022
Oil on canvas
generational echos is an interactive art piece created using Processing, delving into the deeply ingrained cultural values in Vietnamese society.
Interactive Video Installation
Quotes from an anonymous survey sent out to student dorms are written on prints of photographs of ducks representing Stanford students
Digital photography prints
These are part of an ongoing series of portraits of people I met in passing. They can be displayed together or individually.
This piece combines a photograph taken of a mural in Palo Alto with a vintage National Geographic photograph of the same location.
2017
Digital Collage
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Photography
Inspired by individuality and body empowerment. Work focuses on abstraction of human form and color.
Acrylic on canvas
Winter 2017, I wrote my first song, ‘Something You Should Know’. After working on the lyrics, production and recording for two years here it is!
Song available on all streaming platforms (spotify, apple music)
v.c.a – an ongoing project and exploration of visual communication through abstraction
2016
Graphic Design
A ghostly woman draped in a silk shawl and pearls.
Charcoal
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel