Hi, I’m Panyanhan. I am an artist, writer, researcher, and enthusiast, born in Dalian, Liaoning, in 2002. My artist name is my legal name written in one word as its Chinese form: Panyanhan. 潘彦含。


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“I am a Benjaminian. ( I added that)
I primarily work at the intersection of painting and writing, using the method of historical materialism, fiction, and speculative poetics. My practice is a dreaming of dialectical materiality, imagined linguistic systems, and the structural contradictions of modernity and ideology. I move between fiction and form, the monumental and the intimate, the speculative and the grounded—seeking languages that intervene in history without abandoning the lyric.

Raised in Dalian, trained in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and shaped by ongoing conversations between Eastern philosophies and Western Marxist thought, I treat both art and theory as generative structures: sites for re-narrating collective memory, interrogating ideology, and reimagining futures. I am especially interested in how aesthetics mediate the project of nationhood, modernization, and utopia.

I often construct conceptual fictions and alternative historiographies—fragments of imagined worlds, impossible timelines, speculative lovers, or mythic spectators—framing art as a dialectical site where structure meets rupture. I resist stylistic repetition, instead favoring re-invention, interdisciplinary hybridity, and the unstable boundaries between visuality and language.

I am currently developing work that probes the afterlife of utopia, the everyday as world-building, and the politics of imagination under global capitalism.”