Hanwen is a painter and sculptor living in Chicago, born and grew up in Shanghai, China. She will achieve her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025. Her paintings explore memory, emotion, and connection, an attempt to connect self and world, past and present, reality and imagination. Her work reconstructs deeply personal yet universally resonant moments. These reconstructed memories defy the binary of truth and fiction; they exist in a space where the real merges seamlessly with the imagined, where the boundaries between lived experience and emotional truth dissolve.