Han Yong was born in 1978 in Yanbian, Jilin, China. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Yanbian University in 2000 with a bachelor's degree. He graduated from the Fourth studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 with a master's degree. Han Yong currently lives and works in Beijing.

For Han Yong, such innocent and effortless painterly expression is perhaps hisresistance to our time and his persistence towards the fond memories and imagination deep-down.  This quality has always been there since the dawn of Han Yong's career.  Han Yong's paintings has something that parallels temporal categories such as "fashion," "trend," or "movement," or they rather exist as a poetic entity that doesn't govern by temporality.  Han Yong's paintings are the maximum expression of his sensibility and even, his nature under the control of reason.  Narratives are laid bare in the compositions with ease, lacking any "useless" tracks.  He is always to leap out of our mundane timeline a few times, maybe just a few, but they are all encapsulated in his pictures.tracks.  He is always to leap out of our mundane timeline a few times, maybe just a few, but they are all encapsulated in his pictures.