In 1971, Han had a showing in the O.K. Harris Works of Art, famous for promoting photo-realism. In 1976 he won an award as one of the one hundred most distinguished foreign-born artists in the U.S. on the occasion of the bicentennial, and his work was collected by Washington's Hirsch-horn Museum.
一九七一年，韓湘寧在以推動照相寫實著名的蘇荷畫廊 O.K. 哈里斯舉行個展；一九七六年，又獲選為美國建國二百周年紀念百位外裔有成藝術家之一，作品為赫希洪美術館收藏。