Artist Talk: Hao Jingban

The List Visual Arts Center will host an artist talk in celebration of the opening of Hao Jingban: I Witness followed by an opening reception. Artist, Hao Jingban, will be in conversation with doctoral student in East Asian Film and Media Studies at Harvard University, Huirong Ye. This exhibition marks Hao’s first major US museum solo, featuring recent work centered on I Witness (2025), a three-channel installation that takes up the embodied residue of the COVID-19 pandemic: four participants move slowly through a well-lit apartment, their images punctuated by stories of loss—an older woman who sleeps alone and rises to clean her refrigerator, a group of young people pacing an open field. Hao Jingban lives and works between Yunnan Province, China, and Berlin, Germany. She received an MA from the University of London and BA from Goldsmiths College. Recent solo exhibitions include Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2025); Matadero Madrid (2020); OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Xi’an, China (2019) and recent group exhibitions at venues including 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025); Rockbund Art Museum (2025); TANK Shanghai (2024); West Bund Museum, Shanghai (2023); Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021); among others. Hao’s works are in the collection of the M+, Hong Kong; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Frac Bretagne, Rennes; the Power Station of Art, Shanghai;, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona. Huirong Ye is a doctoral student in East Asian Film and Media Studies at Harvard University. Her current research examines the archivalization and institutionalization of meteorology in modern China, focusing on how it became configured as a mediated domain through audiovisual, technological, textual, and spatial forces, where visibility, legibility, and manageability operate as ideals within evolving regimes of prediction. Her broader interests include environmental humanities, transpacific island and ocean studies, sensory history, activist media, and contemporary art. Huirong holds a BA in History of Art and Architecture and a BS in Journalism from Boston University and earned her Master of Design Studies with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she received the 2024 Design Studies Domain Award.