Fan holds a BFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design and their current studio practice and residence is in Brooklyn, NY.
[2][3] Jes Fan is a multidisciplinary artist who creates unique sculptures that feature hormones, bacteria, and fungi with the aim of exploring and challenging the concepts of identity and biology.
"Above all, (Fan's) sculptures were promiscuously biomorphic, resembling molecules, organs, orifices, skin, bodies of all kins--wringling forms of life that refuse any single definition."
Online contemporary art broker [6] Artsy has commented that: "Fan's desire is to obfuscate the difference between hard and soft, asking us to quantify and justify our sense of queerness as a limp thing.
[8] A more recent series of Fan’s entitled “Sites of Wounding” focuses on pearl farming as a way to bring to light extractive industries.