Han Dai-Yu

Artist and Full Professor Han Dai-Yu has been teaching drawing and painting for over twenty years. Dai-Yu received his BFA and MFA from the China Academy of Art, where he also served as a faculty member.
From 2001 to 2002, Dai-Yu held the position of Artist-in-Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He then moved to the United States, where he spent 2002–2006 as a visiting scholar and artist at Cornish College of the Arts. Since 2006, Dai-Yu has been teaching at Loyola Marymount University as a Full Professor and Chair of the Studio Arts Department. Dai-Yu also serves as a Services to Artists Committee (SAC) member of the College Art Association (CAA).
Dai-Yu’s volumes on drawing and painting have been published by China National Academy Press and Taipei International Cultural Publishing House. His textbook, Ignite the Soul: The Art of Figure Drawing, was published by Cognella Academic Publishing in 2014, following his earlier book Drawing Code: East Meets West, published by University Readers in 2009.
His art has been exhibited internationally at the Shanghai Art Museum, the Museum of the Chinese Painting Institute in Shanghai, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the LA Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Angeles, SCOPE Miami, and numerous contemporary art fairs. In 2015, Dai-Yu visited the National Taiwan University of Arts to exhibit his work and present guest lectures. In December of the same year, the Charlotte Museum of History in Charlotte, North Carolina hosted a solo exhibition of Dai-Yu’s paintings.
Dai-Yu was later nominated to exhibit in “The Path of Master Artists,” an exclusive invitational exhibition at the Art Gallery of the China National Academy of Chinese Painting in Beijing.
In 2017, Dai-Yu presented his solo exhibition “Bondless Painting” and delivered an art lecture at the Art Museum of Renmin University of China. His series “Do Not Know” was selected for group exhibitions at the Museum of Art at Oklahoma State University and the East Asia Library of Stanford University.