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Katie Han '23
I was inspired by the stillness of this moment, the warm light, and the beautiful shadows created by the trees. This was based on SF Japantown.
2020
gouache on paper
By Katie Han '23
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
2017
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Bright orange poppies burst into the foreground framed by cool blue houses behind.
2022
Oil paint on panel
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
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Photography
Exploring the weary determination of an aged subject shouldering generational burdens. Experimented with earthier and darker tones, deconstruction, an
Oil Paint on Canvas
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
Representation of an Asian woman navigating a worldwide pandemic, situated in the centre of racial prejudice, capitalism, & social media connectivity.
Scanned magazine collage, colour pencils, and pen on Sketchbook
Both works are depictions of traditional Catholic religious figures figured through an assemblage of inanimate objects.
2018
Graphite and watercolor on paper
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
code poems
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These would represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
Mice own your belongings at night.
2016
Charcoal Pencil on Paper
Warm summer portrait of girl reading.
Photoshop
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage
Lucky to witness a green Dish.
This is a study of Auguste Rodin’s “Bust of St. John the Baptist,” in an attempt to capture the densely textured look of the original.
Charcoal, white chalk on toned paper
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)
A faceless woman in a room of South Vietnamese soldiers
Graphite on Paper
I met this young girl at a rural health clinic in Indonesia, where she had just given birth.
2014
Pencil and paper
cloudy with a chance of love
Digital illustration
This piece is a portrait of a friend that overlays an island near the Philippines that has a deep personal association for her from her time there.
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.