1989年生于中国武汉，是一位目前常驻于伦敦的视觉艺术家、比较文化学者、多语写作者以及一位母亲。现工作生活于英国伦敦。
她的实践回应着欧亚跨文化混融现象的去殖民化问题，这种混杂交融发生于广阔的时空地景之上，脱离了源自西方观念凝视的主导性调介。她在艺术生涯初期接受的是西方传统下的油画训练，但随后则从艺术创作的单一视角转向了欧亚大陆今时往昔深远的跨文化语境下历史连结的复杂性。她的研究涉猎广泛，涵盖了文化对话与多元美学交流的跨学科表现形式——从宗教、哲学、神话到贸易、民间工艺和制书。近期，印度与波斯的手抄本传统以及中国与日本的木版印刷是她正在投入研究的领域。
交叉性以及帝国主义的历史遗留是她实践中另一种反复出现的重要修辞。通过她身为女性下庶群体一员的自身体验，以及在争取可见性、争取塑造行星文化话语的平等机会中关于他异性“团结”高原效应的新兴概念，她调介着个体与集体的关系。新自由主义全球化、文化霸权和跨语境冲突所引发的断裂映射出她作品的多媒介特质，其范围跨越绘画、概念装置、再到影像创作与写作。作为一位跨学科的探询者，韩梦云挑战着亚里士多德式的知识、仪式与美学的等级制度，强调着在后-西方主导的新兴世界中，重思已知、待学和不可知之间存在的概念界限的重要意义。她的作品提出了关于跨信仰、跨种族以及多语言泛亚细亚主义所具潜能的历时性问题。
Born in Wuhan, China in 1989, she is a visual artist, comparative culture scholar, multilingual writer and mother currently based in London. Currently working and living in London, UK.
Her practice addresses the decolonisation of the phenomena of Eurasian transcultural hybridisations that occurred across vast landscapes of time and space from the dominative mediation of the Western conceptual gaze. She was initially trained in the Western tradition of oil painting but diverted from the singular viewpoint of art production towards the complexity of historical ties in the profoundly intercultural context of the continent’s history and present. The broad focus of her research covers interdisciplinary manifestations of cultural dialogue and polyvocal aesthetic conversation — from religion, philosophy, and mythologies to trade, vernacular craftsmanship, and bookmaking. Recently, she has been working on Indian and Persian manuscript traditions and woodblock printing in China and Japan.
The subjects of intersectionality and legacies of imperialism are another significant recurring trope in her practice. She mediates the relationship between personal and collective from her experience as a female subaltern and emerging notions of alternative plateaus of solidarity in the struggle for visibility and just access to shaping the planetary cultural discourse. The ruptures of neoliberal globalisation, cultural hegemony and inter-contextual conflicts reflect the multimedia character of her work, ranging from painting and conceptual installation to filmmaking and writing. As a transdisciplinary inquirer, Han Mengyun challenges the Aristotelian hierarchisation of knowledge, ritual and aesthetics, highlighting the importance of rethinking the conceptual boundaries between known, to be learned and unknowable in the emerging post-Western dominated world. Her work raises the diachronic question of the potentiality of inter-faith, inter-racial and multi-lingual pan-Asianiasm.
