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Han Dao '26
Interrogating the digital footprint created when heteropatriarchy, hypermasculinity, and social media co-exist.
Link to Website
2024
Video Art
By Han Dao '26
A projection of water drapes over a foot, the painting interweaves the physical and digital sensation.
2016
Oil on canvas
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
2017
Photo
This is a theatrical self portrait. Fractured light plays off a calm, restrained figure, creating tension and a sense of impending violence. 24″ x 30″
2018
Oil paint on canvas
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
2023
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
Sculpture
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Photograph
This photography series depicts the four indigenous Khmer women at Stanford, invisibility, and the consequent strong community we formed.
2020
Photography Series
(Work in progress) Monstera in grayscale w/ orchre yellow stems
Oil on Canvas
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
Man passing through a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in Paris. The text reads “it is dark (or literally, black) in the country of lights.”
2019
Photograph of Man in Paris
Mount Daly in Snowmass, Colorado
Gouache paint on watercolor paper
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
This work was featured at a solo show with New Image Art in West Hollywood. You are welcome to share any of the work on my Instagram (L.SongWu)
This work is made with acrylic on campus in addition to found paper items, medical textbooks, and other materials.
Acrylic paint and multimedia on canvas
These pictures were taken during a neurosurgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children hospital.
Digital photography
This is how your friend from high school looks at you–knowing you’re different now, knowing she’s different now.
2014
Color Film
These photos will never be published in a journalistic publication – familiar scenes on campus but different, the other side of palm tree paradise?
Photograph of campus scenes
Androids may dream of electric sheep, and electric sheep …
doodle
This drawing for me is meant to capture some of the dynamic processes I have witnesses in the Cosmos.
Watercolor and black ink
The Andromeda constellation re-imagined, through drawing, through burning holes in paper; how do we impose humanity upon the stars?
Charcoal on paper; flame on tracing paper