Born and raised in Singapore, Zhou HanShun is an artist working across photography, moving image, and research-led practice. His work explores perception, memory, and the psychological experience of place through urban environments, landscapes, and lived cultural realities across Asia.

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After more than two decades working across Asia as a Creative Director in advertising, he transitioned into a contemporary art practice grounded in long-term observation, site engagement, and experiential research. Moving between metropolitan centres, coastal regions, and riverine communities, his projects examine how individuals and communities negotiate conditions of acceleration, displacement, belief, and environmental transformation.

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Working across photography, moving image, and collaborative forms of inquiry, HanShun’s practice investigates the tensions between visibility and invisibility, material environments and subjective experience, as well as the ways contemporary life is shaped by memory, ritual, and systems of meaning. His recent works increasingly engage vernacular cosmologies, spiritual practices, and relationships between ecology and cultural imagination in Southeast Asia.

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His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 18th Arte Laguna Prize in Venice (2024), Revela’T Contemporary Analog Photography Festival (2020), Lishui Photography Festival (2019), Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival (2019), KG+ Kyotographie (2018 & 2022), Tumbas Cultural Center in Thessaloniki for Photoeidolo (2017), Molekyl Gallery in Sweden during the Malmö Fotobiennal (2017), the Czech China Contemporary Museum in Beijing for the SongZhuang International Photo Biennale (2017), and Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia (2016 & 2023), among others.

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He is the recipient of the Graciela Iturbide MA-g Award from The Museum of Avant-garde (2024), finalist recognition at the 18th Arte Laguna Prize (2024), 3rd Prize at the Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival (2019), a Special Mention at the Balkan Photo Festival (2016), multiple shortlistings for the Hariban Award (2017–2019), and finalist recognition for Photolucida Critical Mass (2016).